Engineering Team Manager

Solaric is looking for a strong, organized, and results-driven Engineering Team Manager who can lead, coach, and manage a young, fast-moving team of electrical engineers.

This role is ideal for someone who is technically sharp, highly organized, assertive, and capable of managing a large team of Gen Z engineers with the right balance of discipline, coaching, and motivation.

Role Overview

The Engineering Team Manager will help manage the day-to-day workflow, assignments, technical deliverables, attendance, performance, and coordination of the Engineering Department. The position requires an experienced leader who can think quickly, decide wisely, act proactively, and ensure that engineering tasks are completed accurately and on time. The role will support engineering operations, including site surveys, system checking, technical documentation, client technical concerns, post-turnover monitoring, and coordination with management.

Key Responsibilities

The Engineering Team Manager shall be responsible for:

• Supervising and coordinating electrical engineers, including Survey Engineers, Site Engineers, Desktop Engineers, and Design Engineers
• Managing daily engineering workflow, engineer assignments, deployment, and deliverables.
• Monitoring daily attendance, absences, Saturday schedules, and reporting attendance matters to HR and management.
• Monitoring engineer work performance and submitting monthly performance summaries to management.
• Reviewing the daily site survey schedule and ensuring engineer assignments are properly plotted and maximized.
• Ensuring the smooth execution of all engineering processes while closely monitoring engineers to maximize efficiency, accountability, and overall team performance.
• Reviewing and checking technical documents such as Site Survey Reports, PV Layouts, Helioscope reports, BOM/BOQ, Assessment Reports, System Checking Reports, Construction Drawings/Design set, As Built Plans, DU technical documentation requirements for net metering or zero export, Progress Reports, and other related files.
• Ensuring technical documents, team deliverables, and/or revisions are accomplished quickly, accurately, and submitted within the required timelines
• Addressing client technical concerns, installation concerns, and technical inquiries.
• Co-facilitating the Weekly Engineering Team Huddle every Monday at 8:00 AM.
• Ensuring minutes of meetings, action items, and best practices from huddles are properly documented, monitored, and executed.
• Maintaining proper inventory and records of engineering tools and equipment such as PQA, Megger, Thermal Scanner, and related testing tools.
• Conducting monthly physical inventory checks to ensure tools are available, functional, and properly accounted for.
• Ensuring post-turnover monitoring of residential projects for six months and commercial projects for 1-2 years, and maintaining complete, updated records on all relevant sites.
• Ensuring monitoring of commercial projects during the first two years after energization.
• Providing technical support to other departments and teams.

Who We’re Looking For

We need someone who can manage engineers with structure, speed, and accountability.

The ideal candidate must be:

• A licensed Electrical Engineer is preferred, but strong relevant experience may be considered.
• Experienced in solar PV, electrical systems, project engineering, technical documentation, or engineering operations prep
• Capable of leading, coaching, and motivating a young engineering team.
• Organized, sharp, detail-oriented, and strict with deadlines.
• Assertive but professional.
• Able to communicate clearly with engineers, HR, management, other departments, and clients.
• Strong and proficient in Excel, technical reports, documentation, and engineering coordination.
• Able to review PV layouts, survey reports, single-line diagrams, site assessment reports, and related engineering documents.
• Able to multitask and manage multiple engineers, multiple schedules, and multiple urgent technical deliverables at the same time.
• Comfortable handling attendance monitoring, performance tracking, and daily team discipline.
• Must be a team player, but must also be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Able to multitask and manage multiple engineers, multiple schedules, and multiple urgent technical deliverables at the same time.
• Reliable, accountable, proactive, resilient, and solutions-oriented.
• Willing to work in a fast-paced solar company environment.

Required Skills

• Leadership and people management
• Electrical engineering
• Solar PV technical understanding
• Team coaching and performance monitoring
• Scheduling and resource planning
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Microsoft Excel proficiency
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Client-facing professionalism
• High attention to detail
• Strong follow-through and deadline management

THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF:

• You are unable to lead, guide, organize, and manage a large team of Gen Z engineers with the right balance of patience, firmness, and accountability.
• You dislike checking reports, drawings, schedules, and technical files.
• You are not comfortable monitoring attendance and performance.
• You wait to be told what to do instead of acting proactively.
• You are not solutions-driven, a problem-solver, or a multi-tasker.
• You cannot handle pressure, deadlines, and multiple urgent requests.
• You are not willing to be accountable for team output.

Why Join Solaric?

Solaric is one of the leading rooftop solar companies in the Philippines and is known for being a fast-moving, mission-driven organization in the renewable energy industry.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to take real ownership of an engineering team, build better systems, improve discipline and accountability, and help young engineers become more organized, professional, and technically excellent.

AS ENGINEERING TEAM MANAGER, YOU WILL NOT JUST BE MONITORING TASKS. YOU WILL BE HELPING SHAPE THE DAILY RHYTHM, STANDARDS, CULTURE, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. YOU WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH MANAGEMENT, SENIOR TECHNICAL LEADERS, PROJECT TEAMS, SALES TEAMS, AND FIELD ENGINEERS TO MAKE SURE SOLARIC DELIVERS ACCURATE, TIMELY, AND SUPERIOR-QUALITY ENGINEERING SUPPORT TO ITS CLIENTS.

At Solaric, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and mentor a young team of electrical engineers.
• Help improve engineering systems, workflows, and reporting discipline.
• Be part of a company that is actively driving solar adoption in the Philippines.
• Strengthen your technical, leadership, and operations management skills.
• Contribute directly to client satisfaction and project success.
• Grow with a company that values accountability, efficiency, initiative, and results.

Benefits:

• Company events
• Health insurance
• On-site parking
• Opportunities for promotion
• Paid training
• Pay raise
• Promotion to permanent employee
• Staff meals provided

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Pasig: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Please list 2-3 dates and time ranges that you could do an interview.

Education:

• Elementary/ Primary school (Required)

License/Certification:

• PRC (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: In person