Branch Manager (Fremont/Sacramento, CA)

About NovaSource

NovaSource Power Services is the service partner for renewables asset owners ready to fuel smart growth. As an O&M-focused company with 20 years of operating experience, NovaSource has the global reach and strategic capabilities to achieve our client's renewables goals around the world.

Our turn-key services optimize each step of our client's project lifecycles - from commissioning to decommissioning and everything in between. Our approach delivers creative success for our clients, stability for our teams, and enables us to build a world-class culture of excellence. And that's how we empower a renewable world.

Job Description:

The Branch Manager is responsible for the operations and management of a specific region. The Manager supervises personnel in their region and is responsible for hiring and training new employees. It is the Manager's responsibility to make sure that projects are completed safely, on time, within budget, and in a professional manner.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop solar service technicians and build a positive team environment
• Provide technical support for techs in the field
• Assign technicians to specific work orders based on technician skill sets to ensure job is completed in a timely manner
• Scheduling of jobs and assigning technicians to work based on their skill sets.
• Review and approve all timecards and expense reports.
• Review all deliverables turned in by technicians to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Participate in regular safety meetings and ensure that all personnel are fully trained in and adhere to the company's safety standards in their work.
• Hire and train new personnel and build capability of regional team.
• Promote and enforce company policies and values.
• Develop processes aimed at enhancing operational effectiveness and ensure quality control.
• Recruit, coordinate, and supervise subcontractors in your region, including developing guidelines for the company interaction with subcontractors.
• Ensure that all work meets local, state, and federal electrical regulatory standards
• Manage all region operations in line with budgeted and operational performance.
• Respond to reactive maintenance events- potentially in emergency.
• Communicate activities to clients, appropriate personnel, vendors, and internal staff.
• Create estimates of time and materials to perform corrective maintenance.
• All other duties as assigned.

Office Physical Requirements:

All positions in our office require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. In order to best service our customers, internal and external, all associates must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. NovaSource is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.

Potential candidates will meet the education and experience requirements provided on the above job description and excel in completing the listed responsibilities for this role.

US: Diversity Statement - Equal Employment Opportunity

It is NovaSource's policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. NovaSource disapproves of, and will not tolerate, unlawful discrimination against any applicant or employee because of race, color, national origin or ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, age, religion, disability, family care status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws.