PowerOasis has been recognised by The European Tech Tour Association as one of the 30 most exciting technology companies in the UK as part of the UK Ireland Tech Tour 2010 and were named a company to watch at the Cleantech Connect Awards 2009 and recognised as the third fastest growing company in Europe at the Cleantech Connect Awards 2010. The Cleantech Connect Awards bring together Europe’s leaders in the clean and green technology sectors and to encourage continued growth and collaboration within this half-a-trillion-dollar-a-year industry.

PowerOasis was selected at the awards because of its pioneering work in the green telecoms sector. Ivan Harris, PowerOasis, Chief Marketing Officer comments “The explosion in demand for mobile phones in new and emerging markets has been staggering, the requirement for reliable remote base stations is set to grow exponentially in the next 2-3 years with much of this growth happening in locations that do not have a reliable electric power grid. PowerOasis provide green power solutions to telco providers who want to move into these new markets profitably, with minimum risk and with long term green credentials.”

Here at PowerOasis we possess a unique combination of expertise in renewable energy, power generation, energy storage technologies, and mobile telecommunications. Our blend of talent and experience has put us at the forefront in the provision of intelligent products and services that ensure a secure power supply and reduced diesel consumption for remote base stations by supplementing or replacing diesel generators with intelligent generator control, sophisticated battery charge control and renewable wind and/or solar energy power sources.

We provide the expertise, products and partnerships to deliver network power solutions that ensure all elements of power are managed efficiently including minimising fuel consumption, truck rolls and dependency on volatile fuel prices, whilst maximising site availability, performance visibility and return on investment.

Our UK Headquarters is in Shrivenham, in the South West recently described as “home to the largest concentration of silicon designers outside California’s Silicon Valley”. See us profiled in “Future Story Bristol and the South West”. Shrivenham is one of Oxfordshires’s oldest rural villages yet only 9 miles from Swindon with its excellent rail links and 15 minutes from the M4. Bristol and Reading are within an hour travelling by road, with Birmingham and London taking a little over an hour-and-a-half.

In all our roles, as well as excellence in your field, we expect great team players, highly self-motivated and flexible individuals with strong communication skills. Many roles will involve some international travel. We are especially interested to hear from candidates with experience from the mobile telecommunications and/or power sectors.

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Purpose of Role

PowerOasis is looking for a dynamic Pre-sales professional to join their regional sales team. The outstanding individual will be an expert in Power Solutions, will have worked extensively in customer facing roles and have a solid background in creating innovative commercial proposals.

The Pre-Sales Engineer is responsible for building our pre-sales capability and supporting our sales teams to qualify and win opportunities for hybrid and renewable power solutions. This requires domain expertise in mobile telecoms and the ability to understand customers’ business and technical requirements coupled with in-depth knowledge of our power solutions to develop winning value propositions.

The Pre-Sales Engineer is a customer-facing role that will draw on a broad range of skills and experience to be effective ranging from proposal development, presentations, demonstrations, RFP responses, ROI analysis and so on. In addition to accomplished solution pre-sales skills, the role demands working closely with our customers at all levels in conjunction with our sales people and regional management.

The Pre-Sales Engineer will report to the manager of the pre-sales team and work closely with Marketing, Sales, R & D and Professional Services to ensure opportunities are identified, qualified and won.

PowerOasis offer an extraordinary opportunity to make a real contribution to a small but rapidly growing business working with clients across the whole region to offer transformational power solutions.

Key Tasks

The Pre-Sales Engineer is expected to:

		Help establish a pre-sales capability including collateral, process and tools.
		Respond to technical pre-sales enquiries and qualify, in conjunction with the Sales team and regional management, whether the enquiry should be pursued.
		Give customer presentations on the company, products, services and solutions.
		Undertake feasibility exercises to qualify potential business benefit to the customer of PowerOasis solutions and qualify their technical environment for interworking between their existing equipment and our products.
		Undertake commercial analysis of the business case for renewable energy and fuel reduction deployments.
		Develop solution proposals encompassing the customer’s business requirements, technical solution, benefits, ROI and standard offerings including support.
		Respond to customer RFIs / RFPs acting as bid manager to bring together the resources, expertise and partners as required.
		Liaise with customers and prospects face to face and remotely.
		Provide high-level dimensioning and designs for renewable power solutions for approval.
		Produces product specific configurations for prices in proposals and bids including validation of supported mobile and IT environments.
		Undertake site visits in country to understand customer's power infrastructure.
		Feed feature requests into product development pipeline.
		Contribute to improving PowerOasis’ system design and operations algorithms and other intellectual property.
		Prepare groundwork for chargeable services such as site power audits.
		Support sales and regional management teams with account and deal planning.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Requirements - Summary

		Has experience of building pre-sales capability and winning business.
		Strong technical background (graduate in a technical field such as power or electrical engineering).
		Commercial exposure - including well-developed pre-sales skills and customer-facing experience for a variety of different customers, region wide.
		Experience of network-wide software applications in an enterprise environment.
		Confident, eloquent and persuasive verbal communication skills.
		Ability to articulate our value in written/presentation form.
		Excellent numeracy and problem solving abilities.
		Good attention to detail and accuracy.
		Strong IT skills.
		The ability to work on multiple projects at one time.
		Self motivation.
		Ability to work independently without close supervision.
		Experienced cross-functional team worker.
		Confident international traveller.

Specialist Knowledge

		Pre-Sales At least 5 years experience working directly with customers to understand their requirements and develop winning proposals. Solid foundation in mobile market, power systems (or related engineering discipline) and Enterprise Class software. Experience of providing consultancy, preferably fee-earning. Knowledge of multi-user application software, development lifecycle and environment.
		Domain Knowledge of the global mobile telecommunications market including tier one operators and NEPs.
		Customers Understanding of the customer’s operational environment and the issues of delivering high quality solutions that deliver on expected ROI / TCO targets.
		Process & Tools Demonstrable knowledge of sales processes together with development of account plans and deal qualification. Ability to produce high quality deliverables and collateral that support bids, presentations and proposals.
		PeopleKnowledge of different roles and skills within the customer and partner environments.

Contacts

		Working with sales staff and all functions within the business.
		Work closely with Professional Services during pre-sales process.
		Engage R & D/Engineering when required to support sales process.

Working Conditions

		General office environment or home based depending on location.
		Regularly travel to partner and customer offices - up to several times per week.
		Occasional stand duties at exhibitions overseas.

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter stating why you believe you would be a valuable addition to the PowerOasis team and your current salary details, to jane.holt@poweroasis.com (indicating in the subject header which role you are interested in).

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Key Tasks

		Reports to the Software Manager.
		Design and develop new PowerOasis Manager Software functionality in line with business needs:
		Provide input to the development planning phase.
		Design, develop and test software in line with PowerOasis quality standards.
		Provide debug and bug fixing support during system test phase.
		Provide technical support to PowerOasis Customer Support teams.
		Develop, maintain and evolve a PowerOasis Manager Software Architecture roadmap.
		Seek input from stakeholders to understand the functionality needed in the Manager Software solution.
		Ensure that the architecture evolves to support current and future business requirements.
		Act as the champion and the guardian of the PowerOasis Manager Software Architecture.
		Ensure that software architectural integrity is maintained during development activities.
		Assume a monitoring and guidance role for all Software Architecture related issues during software development.
		Stakeholder communication: promote the current thinking in relation to the PowerOasis Manager Software architecture. As this thinking evolves continue to promote new ideas to ensure alignment/acceptance across the organisation.
		Ensure that the Software Architecture documentation is kept up to date and evolves in line with current thinking.
		Perform technical evaluation of 3rd party and open source software offerings:
		Lead or participate in “make versus buy” evaluations of 3rd party software solutions.
		Define how 3rd party software solutions can be integrated into PowerOasis Manager Software.
		Where a decision is made to utilise a 3rd party software offering, “champion” the software architecture during the integration phase.
		Ensure that the PowerOasis Manager Software implementation is utilising appropriate software technologies in line with current industry best practices and thinking, ensuring at all times alignment with business needs.
		Oversee from a Technical/Architectural perspective the evolution of new software components and interfaces in the PowerOasis Manager Solution:
		User Interface (UI) framework.
		UI evolution e.g. Map based solution.
		Northbound and Southbound Interfaces.
		Inter-component interface evolution.
		Integration and/or development of new components e.g. Rules Engine, Charting/Reporting Solution.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Requirements

		Degree (University Level) in an engineering or science subject.
		Experience in enterprise software development; including processes, tools & technologies.
		10 years software development experience, along with 3 year's software architecture experience in a leadership position.
		A strong communicator who is able to influence and converse at all levels of the organisation in order to promote current and future thinking on the PowerOasis Manager Software Architecture.
		UML: Software architecture modeling &definition.
		Java Design Patterns.
		Experience of test-driven (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium), agile and plan driven software development.
		J2EE, Spring Framework, MySQL, Hibernate - ORM, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, TCP/IP.
		Apache Wicket or similar web framework, XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX
		Experience of integrating Open Source software into a Software platform/solution.
		Good problem solving and creativity skills.
		Good cross functional team working skills.
		Technical document authoring experience.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience Requirements

		Sun Certified Developer and/or Sun Certified Enterprise Architect.
		Telecom's OSS/BSS: Application Integration experience.
		Software User Interface Design.
		Open Systems Interconnection model.
		Familiarity with Open Source license conditions.
		Knowledge of Mobile Telecom's Infrastructure: Network Topology.
		Development of applications which use GPRS and SMS (SMPP) transport mechanisms.
		Configuration management tools such as SVN, ClearCase.
		Experience of working with embedded devices.
		Working with 3rd party companies for outsourced software development .

Working Conditions

		General office environment.
		Based at our Shrivenham offices near Swindon, UK.

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter stating why you believe you would be a valuable addition to the PowerOasis team and your current salary details, to jane.holt@poweroasis.com (indicating in the subject header which role you are interested in).

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The Role

PowerOasis is looking for a dynamic Regional Project Manager to join their Professional Service Team. The outstanding individual will have a proven track record in delivering infrastructure projects, preferably in power solutions region-wide, will have worked extensively in customer facing roles and have a solid background in project management disciplines.

You will enjoy working with client’s region-wide with the potential to travel globally as we grow.

Key Responsibilities

The Regional Project Manager role will deliver:

		End to end (pre-sales to in-service) project planning;
		business value
		Stakeholder identification and engagement
		Functional/technical design and scope
		Resourcing/financial
		risk and mitigation analysis
		Implementation leadership throughout project lifecycle
		Influence for success!
		Motivate the project team through you’re energy
		Technical, commercial, customer service deliverables
		Progress and achievements against plan; milestone delivery
		Maintain stakeholder engagement throughout
		Focused scope management
		Identify, address and neutralise challenges
		Precise, timely and meaningful status updates
		Challenge complacency, deliver success
		Don’t escalate! Assemble the resources to solve!

What you will bring:

		A track record that puts you on the shortlist
		The ability to optimise project methodologies and process not be constrained by them
		Prince II and or PMI/PMP are an advantage but it’s your proven success that counts
		Communicating effectively across the organization comes naturally
		Detail is something you use to paint the bigger picture

Previous Experience

		Domain knowledge that makes you stand out
		Your CV will reflect world class mobile or technology leaders
		Project delivery, lifecycle, at the leading edge of business
		Excellent practical knowledge of BTS Power Systems, GSM/3G access technologies
		You’ll have proven that you can work independently.

What do we provide?

		Excellent salary and career growth potential
		Flexible working environment

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter stating why you believe you would be a valuable addition to the PowerOasis team and your current salary details, to jane.holt@poweroasis.com (indicating in the subject header which role you are interested in).

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The Test Engineer is expected to:

		Work within a multi-disciplinary software development team, although also able to work independently, and take ownership of complex testing tasks including formulation of test cases, test execution and generation of test reports
		Work with the software development team to ensure that a product’s architecture and design allow effective testing techniques to be applied to ensure agreed quality requirements
		Troubleshoot quality issues, make testing improvement recommendations and participate in improvement initiatives
		Evolve the testing environment and standardisation of tools to included automated test suites and custom test harnesses
		Create, monitor and report key quality metrics to demonstrate quality levels and continuous improvement
		Author online help and user documentation such as getting started and user guides

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Requirements

		Degree in an engineering or science subject
		Understanding of automated, manual, regression, performance and acceptance test techniques and their applicability within the software development lifecycle
		Experience of automated simulated user testing, load testing etc
		A passion for software testing
		Proven Java software testing experience for web-based multi-tier applications
		Ability to convey technical concepts to mixed technical and non-technical audiences
		Self-starter with ability to pick up new skills rapidly through independent learning
		Able to demonstrate an appreciation of System Level thinking and application to testing
		Be capable of designing/selecting appropriate test strategies for a range problem domains
		Good cross functional team working skills
		Good verbal and written communication skills

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience Requirements

		ISEB Certification
		Experience writing technical documentation, user guides, reports, etc. for software products
		Experience producing web-based documentation, or content which can be distributed in several formats (web, printed, pdf, etc.)
		Experience of the mobile telecommunications industry
		Appreciation of data communications infrastructure (TCP/IP, ADSL, GPRS, WANs)
		Software development experience applied to the development of test tools and harnesses

Working Conditions

		General office environment
		Based at our Shrivenham offices near Swindon
		Occasional travel to partner and customer offices both in the UK and overseas

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter stating why you believe you would be a valuable addition to the PowerOasis team and your current salary details, to jane.holt@poweroasis.com (indicating in the subject header which role you are interested in).

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