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Careers
Embarking on a career in PowerOasis, a rapidly growing UK company, means you‘ll be working with some of the best people in the field and in an extraordinarily exciting marketplace providing sustainable mobile telecommunications to the developing world, but don’t just take our word for it ...
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. 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 as a ‘company to watch’ 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 Oxfordshire’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.
We are currently actively recruiting for the roles shown below (please click on the roles that interest you to see more details). 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).
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.
If you can’t see the right role for you, as a growing company we are always delighted to hear from people with relevant experience of power engineering, generator control, battery technologies and micro wind and/or solar renewable energy especially if gained in the telecommunications sector.
Software Development Manager (Java)
Salary £50 - £60,000 pa
This role is responsible for implementing the PowerOasis ManagerTM roadmap by ensuring that product releases are developed to specification, on time, to budget and within quality limits. Activities include hands-on software development, managing a small and highly capable team, project management of the software development lifecycle, release operations management, change control management, quality management, and reporting progress and status against plan.
The successful candidate will have an engineering or science degree, demonstrable team leadership and project management experience and a thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle and the use of both agile and plan-driven methodologies. The post-holder will have familiarity with one or more Java web frameworks (e.g. Wicket, Struts, JSF, Seam, Spring MVC, GWT) and knowledge of one or more SQL database technologies.
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The PowerOasis Manager is a remote monitoring, control and measurement system that enables operators to efficiently maintain on-site power by managing network power performance against KPIs and reducing operations and maintenance truck rolls. Via GSM, GPRS or backhaul communications the PowerOasis Manager meters multi-site diesel fuel levels, power equipment health status and power information to support reactive and proactive issue resolution to maximise base station availability. The system is built on a multi-tier, distributed architecture including a Java-based web server for the presentation tier, a Java-based application server for the logic tier and an SQL-based database server for the data tier.
Key responsibilities of a Software Development Manager
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Be the responsible manager for the delivery of PowerOasis Manager software development projects, compliant with the product roadmap, on time, within budget and to defined quality standards.
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Work with business and customer project stakeholders to communicate project status and to manage multiple, potentially conflicting, demands on resources that may impact milestones.
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Lead a multi-disciplinary software development team delivering against product roadmaps whilst undertaking off-roadmap projects for customers and for internal process improvement.
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Create an environment for learning and growth to evolve the team’s capabilities, improve the Company’s intellectual capital and increase employee satisfaction.
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Perform a significant amount of hands-on software development to accelerate product development.
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Ensure that software development processes and procedures are standardized, adopted and subjected to continuous improvement.
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Create, monitor and report key performance indicator metrics to demonstrate operational effectiveness and improvement.
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Make sure that the product architecture and implementation is maintainable and extensible to accommodate future development and maintenance.
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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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Software Developer (Java, UI)
Salary £30,000 - £40,000 pa
This role is responsible for implementing elements of the PowerOasis Manager user interface to deliver enhanced visualisation and usability to a multi-user, multi-role community.
The successful candidate will have a degree in an engineering or science subject and proven Java software development experience for web-based multi-tier applications. Additionally the post-holder will need good experience of one or more Java web frameworks (e.g. Wicket, Struts, JSF, Seam, Spring MVC, GWT) as well as a working knowledge of one or more SQL database technologies.
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The PowerOasis Manager is a remote monitoring, control and measurement system that enables operators to efficiently maintain on-site power by managing network power performance against KPIs and reducing operations and maintenance truck rolls. Via GSM, GPRS or backhaul communications the PowerOasis Manager meters multi-site diesel fuel levels, power equipment health status and power information to support reactive and proactive issue resolution to maximise base station availability. The system is built on a multi-tier, distributed architecture including a Java-based web server for the presentation tier, a Java-based application server for the logic tier and an SQL-based database server for the data tier.
Key responsibilities of a Software Developer
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Work within a multi-disciplinary software development team, although also able to work independently, and take ownership of software development tasks from specification to completion.
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Perform design, implementation and maintenance of user interface functionality within the PowerOasis Manager presentation tier.
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Complete developer level unit and integration testing of developed features to verify functionality and operation within limits.
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Research issues discovered by QA, product support and by customers and develop a resolution plan for each issue.
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Provide technical input into user documentation and produce development process related technical documentation.
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Occasionally assist in performing on-site client work during product installation, commissioning and support.
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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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Software Tester (Java)
Salary £30,000 - £40,000 pa
This role is responsible for performing complex testing tasks requiring planning, scheduling, and execution to ensure that the PowerOasis Manager meets design specifications and is within quality limits. The role will also require some technical authoring duties.
As well as a degree in an engineering or science subject, the post-holder will have a passion for software testing backed up by a robust understanding of automated, manual, regression, performance and acceptance test techniques and their applicability within the software development lifecycle. Proven Java software testing experience for web-based multi-tier applications will be required.
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The PowerOasis Manager is a remote monitoring, control and measurement system that enables operators to efficiently maintain on-site power by managing network power performance against KPIs and reducing operations and maintenance truck rolls. Via GSM, GPRS or backhaul communications the PowerOasis Manager meters multi-site diesel fuel levels, power equipment health status and power information to support reactive and proactive issue resolution to maximise base station availability. The system is built on a multi-tier, distributed architecture including a Java-based web server for the presentation tier, a Java-based application server for the logic tier and an SQL-based database server for the data tier.
Key responsibilities of a Software Tester
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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.
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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.
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Troubleshoot quality issues, make testing improvement recommendations and participate in improvement initiatives.
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Evolve the testing environment and standardisation of tools to included automated test suites and custom test harnesses.
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Create, monitor and report key quality metrics to demonstrate quality levels and continuous improvement.
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Author online help and user documentation such as getting started and user guides.
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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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Support Manager
Salary £50 - £60,000 pa
This role is central to building a world-class customer support offering that ensures that our partners and customers receive the highest level of service we can provide. The post holder will be passionate about customer support with a clear understanding of what it takes to achieve high levels of service and the Key Performance Indicators required to track performance and service levels. You will hold a degree in an engineering or science subject and will have played a leading role in defining and launching a support capability for software and hardware products to the mobile telecommunications industry.
The responsibilities will include defining our support structure including core processes and service levels so that customers / partners can place support calls which we can process within our contractual commitments. In parallel, our partners will need to be trained to do 1st line support so that calls can handled in the field before escalating to the UK. Together, these will establish the first critical milestone of our end-to-end support capability for our hardware and software products.
Additionally customer facing activities such as presenting our support offering, agreeing service levels and participating in customer projects will form part of the role. The successful candidate will need to build a world-class support team based on a plan that reflects how support resources need to expand in line with growth. Travel to partner and customer offices both in the UK and overseas will be a feature of this role.
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Key responsibilities of the Support Manager
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Define a support strategy and structure including core end-to-end processes that are aligned with the demands of PowerOasis' hardware and software products.
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Define a support model where the partner in country provides 1st line support with an escalation path back to the UK for 2nd and 3rd line support.
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Train our partners in country to provide 1st line support which includes both fault identification resolution in the field.
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Be the first line of contact for partners / customers raising faults and support calls (including 24 / 7 support where agreed) and respond within the contractual service levels.
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Work with customers to present the PowerOasis support offering and agree service levels.
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Participate in customer projects to ensure smooth transition from installation into support mode and that our service level commitments can be met. This includes major upgrades that risk disruption to service.
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Define a business plan for Support showing resources needed to expand in line with growth.
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Recruit new headcount to fulfil the Support plan and manage the Support team with direct line reports as the business grows.
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Provide reports on Support performance against agreed KPIs and forecast of support requirements.
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Work with the Sales team to secure profitable contracts and negotiate SLAs for high profile accounts.
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Work closely with Engineering and Professional Services to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
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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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Professional Services Consultant
Salary £30,000 - £40,000 pa
The Professional Services department works with operators and network equipment providers to advise on the commercial and technical opportunities to reduce the cost of delivering power to mobile telecommunications networks, including renewable power deployments. This involves responding to technical pre-sales enquiries, performing commercial analysis of business cases and planning the design of renewable power solutions.
This role involves regular worldwide travel, both to operator headquarters, and to visit sites (sometimes in very remote and underdeveloped locations).
This role would suit a recent science MSc or PhD science or engineering graduate looking for an industrial role with both technical and commercial aspects. Full training will be given.
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Key responsibilities of Professional Services Consultant
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Respond to technical pre-sales enquiries, including customer presentations
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Perform commercial analysis of the business case for renewable energy and fuel reduction deployments
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Dimension and design of renewable power solutions for approval by the engineering department
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Undertake site visits in country to confirm site layout and equipment
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Feed feature requests into product development pipeline
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Contribute to improving PowerOasis’ system design and operations algorithms and other intellectual property
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Prepare analysis of site power audits and offer power reduction solutions.
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Project manage deployments in conjunction with customer project managers
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This role would suit a recent science MSc or PhD graduate looking for an industrial role with both technical and commercial aspects. Full training will be given.
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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