Solar Engineer Job Description
Solar Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Solar Engineer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Solar Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PE, NABCEP, IEC, OSHA, CEM, PV, OGPV, GCPV, SEDA, PLM
Education for Solar Engineer
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Employers hiring for the solar engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Science, Mechanical Engineering, Design, Construction Management, Architecture, Technical, Physics, Education
Skills for Solar Engineer
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Solar Engineer Job Description
- Reviewing and preparing technical and non technical reports to a high standard including specifications, reports, proposals, calculations and contracts
- Actively assisting with business development and client management
- Attending client and site visits as required (UK and overseas)
- Carrying out technical assessments
- Provides key project monitoring decisions
- Assist the sales staff to screen and qualify the feasibility of energy efficiency and Solar PV opportunities
- Develop, define and dimension technically and economically feasible applications by performing preliminary engineering/design, project metering and measurements of critical parameters
- Conduct feasibility studies for both ground mounted and roof mounted solar PV projects
- Possess knowledge on rebate application process NYSERDA
- Overall responsibility and accountability for part production and quality
- 2+ years of commercial PV system design, permitting, construction, commissioning and O&M
- Experience in providing technical support energy-related projects with accountability for project performance and design
- Strong knowledge of photovoltaic system design and optimizing system components for energy production
- Strong knowledge of electrical and structural design components and manufacturers
- Experience in value engineering of photovoltaic or other constructions projects
- Good working knowledge of standard utility process for interconnection approval and design requirements
Solar Engineer Job Description
- Define overall quality management system and indicators
- Define incoming procedures
- Monitor indicators and efficiency
- Defines how to document and store data and interfaces Baroda
- Owns and creates control plans
- Local vendor issue mitigation
- Production issue mitigation
- May perform basic order management, profile management and quotation activities
- Be responsible for understanding and implementation of technical regulations and standards for the industry and various regions (IEC, IEEE, UL)
- Develop and document processes used in the assembly of low-cost solar panels for space applications
- Experience with medium voltage power electronics
- Requires a Bachelor´s degree in Electrical Engineering or Business Administration combined with a keen affinity for technical products
- Represents a combination of a customer-oriented sales professional and an engineer
- 5 years of working experience with both direct and indirect selling through technical products, ideally in an internationally-oriented company
- Willing to travel to events, customer sites
- Past experience in sales involving local clients is an advantage
Solar Engineer Job Description
- Work intimately with solder and weld processes for conductor interconnection
- Write, revise, and maintain manufacturing documentation
- Prepare specifications for low and high-volume manufacturing automation equipment
- Evaluate candidate processes using tools like PFMEA and Six Sigma
- Conduct root cause investigations in the case of process issues
- Characterize photovoltaic devices (LIV, DIV, EL, IR) and interpret results
- Support the training of manufacturing technicians
- Design and manufacture test fixtures
- Specify and source custom test equipment
- Coordinate ongoing hardware testing
- Minimum industry 3 years’ experience in DC power optimizer designs and 5 years industry experience in solar inverter designswith a proven ability in designing high performance and cost effective optimizer products for medium to high volume manufacturing
- 5+ years of experience in solar system and product engineering, permitting, commissioning and O&M, past solar inverter experience in sales involving clients is an advantage
- Requires a Bachelor´s degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Technologies, Mechanical Engineering, Automatic Control Engineering
- Prefer Bilingual - Chinese / Mandarin
- Working in dynamic and fast-pace environment
- University degree in Electrical / Electronics Engineering
Solar Engineer Job Description
- Summarize and present reliability testing results
- Overall responsibility and accountability for production quality from definition to operational stages
- Design test fixtures and implement product and system tests
- Efficiently obtaining measurable and predictable results
- Create and present test reports in a clear and concise manner
- Planning, procuring, organizing and maintaining test equipment and materials
- Collaborate with product development team to incorporate test results
- Coordinate with manufacturing partners for product testing
- Set and communicate reliability requirements and targets for components, subsystems
- Participate on cross-functional product teams as lead or supporting design engineer
- Working knowledge of PV specific modeling, standard electrical calculations, basic structural & mechanical calculation
- Solar Power Plant knowledge is preferred
- PV plant design, PV panel and Solar inverter knowledge will be plus
- University degree in Electrical, Electrical & Electronics, Energy Engineering
- 2-3 years of sales experience in Power Electronics (solar inverters, solar system components, UPS), or Power Protection (MV Switchgear and rectifiers) or automation products sales
- Responsible for understanding and implementation of technical regulations and standards for the industry and various regions (IEC, IEEE, API)
Solar Engineer Job Description
- Provide feedback on Design-for-Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Reliability (DFR) to engineering and participate in reviews
- Lead/perform product containment activities and arrange for disposition
- Negotiate and influence design with all teams to ensure Design-for-Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Reliability (DFR), and ensure that quality principles are designed into new products
- Collaborate across groups to perform FMEAs and PFMEAs on new products
- Provide input into critical dimensions or aspects on prints, Inspection check sheet preparation, measuring system plans, First Article Inspection (FAI) process instructions and completion, MSA, Pre-production plan, production ramp up plan and sample inspections
- Verify proper certification and testing completion, prior to each phase of production
- Create technical Supplier and product Quality/Reliability Requirement Plans (SQR’s) and develop follow-up plans after implementation for overall product quality and reliability
- Prepare the development plan of the mechanism or Solar Array Product
- Prepare the Engineering Management plan of the engineering development activities
- Manage the engineering team in charge of the development and qualification of the product, according to cost and schedule objectives
- Five years or more experience in detailed design, and implementation of solar projects
- Experienced in performing solar modeling is necessary
- CEM Certification or equivalent necessary
- Demonstrated subject matter expert (SME) in solar power is necessary
- Fully competent in analysis and assessment of complete solar system
- Demonstrated ability to drive for results, and focus on the customer & acts ethically