About You
Are you an electrician, electrical trainee or recent graduate in electrical engineering? Are you looking for a new challenge in the renewables sector? Do you want to play a critical role in building the UK’s next market leader in residential solar? Does the idea of helping to tackle the energy crisis and the climate crisis by making renewable energy mainstream and affordable excite you? If so, read on!
About the Role
If you are eager to learn and are not afraid to dive straight into new challenges, this role is a great opportunity to be part of something innovative and new in the UK solar space. As a Solar Technical Associate at Sunsave, you will be responsible for planning and supporting the delivery of residential solar installations through our installation partners. You will be a technical expert within Sunsave’s Operations Team, supporting team members coordinating installation projects and providing escalated technical support for installed customers.
As a Solar Technical Associate, you will:
- Become a subject matter expert on solar and battery storage installation, reviewing and signing off solar designs and answering challenging technical queries from the sales team.
- Conduct surveys of Sunsave’s customer properties to assess feasibility for installation of solar and other renewable tech.
- Use information from Sunsave’s remote surveys to create outline installation plans and communicate these to installers.
- Provide your expertise to support the Customer Operations team when handling technical queries from customers, before and after installation.
- Be able to travel to Sunsave’s HQ in Soho, London on a regular basis as well as occasionally to installations in your area.
This is primarily a desk-based role, reporting into the Technical Manger. However, there will be opportunities for you to travel to site and even get on the tools occasionally if this is something you want to do.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential Requirements
- You are a team player, willing to get stuck in and solve problems in a fast-paced environment.
- You hold Electrical Installation /Electrical Engineering Level 2 and Level 3 Qualifications and/or electrical engineering university degree.
- Knowledge of, or an interest in Solar PV, Battery, EV charger, and Heat Pump installations.
- Good knowledge of wiring regulations (having an 18th Edition qualification is preferred but not required).
- Ability to work with a diverse range of team members, communicate effectively, and work independently where needed.
- Full UK driving licence strongly preferred.
Desirable but not required (upskill training can be offered)
- IET 18th Edition (BS7671) Level 3
- NVQ Level 3
- Experience with solar, EV charging or heat pump installations, and solar design software (e.g. one of OpenSolar, PVSol, PVSyst, etc)
If you don’t feel your skills/experience fulfil all of the brief above, or you feel you’re over-qualified for the role, but would be a great fit for us, please apply! We’re a flexible employer looking for the right person, rather than the perfect CV.
About Us
We’re Sunsave and our mission is to increase access to green energy by offering solar on a subscription basis with no upfront cost. We want to empower customers by helping them reduce their electricity bills from day one saving tens of thousands over the lifetime of our product, and all while contributing to a cleaner, greener Britain. (Which we think is a pretty cool aim).
We’re a well-funded and fast-growing start up with a team of experienced industry and sector experts. We’re tech-driven and very ambitious - aspiring to become THE UK market leader in the solar space. However, we’re committed to doing it right. We place our customers at the heart of everything we do and strive to deliver excellence at every step of the process, from procurement to installation, and beyond.
By joining our team at this early stage, the opportunities for progression, growth and career development are massive, and the potential here at Sunsave is huge. However, we know that in order to achieve our ambitious goals, we need a brilliant team. We’re dedicated to building a bright and diverse business, valuing different perspectives and approaches and knowing that we’ll achieve far more together than we ever could alone.
We appreciate that building a truly diverse team means being flexible. We all have different situations, and we’re committed to helping everyone have a voice at the table. We support a hybrid/flexible approach, with a mixture of time spent on site, working from home or at HQ in London.
What We Offer
🤑 Competitive compensation package
📈 Share in employee equity scheme
🏋️ Ongoing training budget and technical training support in-role
🚑 Private health insurance (including mental health support)
🎮 Flexible working culture (mix of office, remote, on site)
💸 Juno wellbeing monthly benefits
🍼 Enhanced maternity and paternity benefit
🎈 Team social events (remote & live)
