Regional Asset Manager

Madison Energy Infrastructure is seeking a Regional Asset Manager in Princeton, NJ, responsible for managing 150-300 commercial and industrial solar assets. The role involves ensuring optimal performance, compliance, and safety, while maintaining vendor relationships and budget oversight. Key tasks include monitoring site performance, overseeing operational management, and responding to site issues. Candidates should have extensive technical and project management experience in the solar industry.
MISSION:

Madison Energy Infrastructure (“MEI”) believes in the power of clean energy infrastructure and has quickly emerged as a preeminent developer, investor, asset owner, and operator of distributed generation. This role represents a critical next step in MEI’s evolution toward offering direct, end-to-end services to Fortune 500 corporates, public entities, nonprofits, and other private customers alike and building out development pipelines to finance renewable energy projects with our development partners.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Asset Manager at Madison Energy Infrastructure (MEI) is responsible for the full operational management of 150-300 commercial and industrial solar assets, ensuring optimal uptime, safety, and cost-efficiency. Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, this role involves proactively resolving site issues, maintaining vendor relationships, tracking warranties, and ensuring compliance with safety and operational standards.

The Asset Manager plays a critical role in site performance, acting as the primary point of contact for O&M providers, customers, and internal stakeholders. This position requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and problem-solving skills to maintain budget adherence, site cleanliness, and optimal asset performance while meeting key performance targets.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

Monitor and Maintain Performance:
• Achieve 100% controllable Weather-Adjusted Production by resolving site issues flagged by analysts and O&M providers.
• Eliminate preventable thermal and safety events through proactive site monitoring and risk mitigation.

Asset Management and Site Oversight:
• Own full operational responsibility for 150-300 solar sites.
• Serve as the primary point of contact (POC) for all site-related issues, responding within three hours and conducting quarterly customer check-ins.
• Visit 10% of sites annually, ensuring compliance with MEI’s operational standards.
• Walk 5% of new incoming sites to ensure thorough onboarding and feedback loop integration.

Vendor and O&M Management:
• Maintain a triple redundant list of regional providers for O&M, medium voltage, landscaping, and related services.
• Supervise 3-5 major remediation projects per year, ensuring they are completed efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Oversee vendor performance, pricing negotiations, and contract compliance.

Financial and Budget Oversight:
• Keep maintenance expenditures within budget while maximizing performance and longevity of assets.
• Approve and upload all invoices related to site management and maintenance.

Data Integrity and Documentation:
• Track and document all work and site conditions in Salesforce, ensuring accurate record-keeping.
• Coordinate with analysts to track spares and warranty status for equipment (inverters, racking, panels, and trackers).

Emergency Response and Issue Resolution:

Serve as the first point of contact for emergency issues, ensuring a 24-hour response capability.
• WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
• 4+ years of technical experience with C&I solar components, troubleshooting, and supervision.
• 4+ years of project management experience, including subcontractor sourcing, pricing, and oversight.
• 5+ years of professional full-time experience in a relevant field.
• Strong budgetary knowledge to track and manage financial performance effectively.
• Ability to review maintenance reports, challenge assumptions, and identify missed issues.
• Proficiency in reviewing manufacturer spec sheets, maintenance logs and technical documents.
• Comfortable creating urgency and accountability with vendors and subcontractors.
• Ability to build and maintain strong, professional relationships with customers, subcontractors and internal teams.
• Ability to write professional emails with proper grammar, formatting and clarity.
• Strong working knowledge of Zoom, Slack, Outlook, Teams and Adobe Suite.
• Comfortable in a scaling, fast-paced environment with a proactive approach to solving problems

The actual salary offered may vary depending on job-related factors including, but not limited to knowledge, skills, experience and location.

Madison Energy Infrastructure is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.