We have an opportunity for a Solar Engineering Manager with a passion for leading a team of solar engineers. We seek a creative, intelligent, driven individual with expertise in the large commercial and small utility-scale solar industry. The ideal candidate will build, train and lead Associate Engineers, Project Engineers, and Sr. Project Engineers, support project due diligence, engineering… designs, and third-party engineer oversight for large-scale distributed generation (DG) solar PV projects. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your talent, lead a growing team, and work for a proven leader in the renewable energy industry.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Management Duties
- Manage a team of engineers performing project support and engineering design and oversight work
- Team to include 4-8 full-time engineers
- 1-3 interns at a time, seasonally
- Set objectives, review performance, and meet periodically with team members.
- Review and approve timecards and expense reports for direct reports
- Assign and allocate work to direct reports
- Train engineers in:
- Interconnection application and management
- Production modeling
- PV interconnection policy, incentives, and electricity tariff analysis
- Value engineering
- detailed PV system design
- third-party engineer contracting, management, review, and interpretation of third-party engineer deliverables.
- Update and draft new standard operating procedures pertinent to the job as necessary
- Reinforce standard operating procedures and proper use of file management and CRM systems.
- Review deliverables and work product of direct reports on a continuous basis
- Engineering Duties
- Work with appropriate electric utilities to prepare and process interconnection paperwork; provide technical support and management of the interconnection process.
- Update status in tracking documents, and provide updates to other departments as needed.
- Guide direct reports in the performance of the same duties.
- Review l technical drawings, and specifications of PV systems to ensure that installation and operations conform to standards and customer requirements.
- Manage and work closely with equipment vendors to identify technical challenges and create new solutions.
- Work with vendors to obtain and assess bids for major equipment such as PV system racking, transformers, and MV switchgear.
- Participate in meetings and technical presentations to customers, investors, and PV technical community.
- Review specifications for purchases of materials or equipment.
- Identify appropriate equipment for use in PV systems and perform technical qualification of vendors.
- Maintain constant communication with key members of construction management and other departments as needed to ensure optimal system design
- Review and markup necessary deliverables such as complete system designs, single line diagrams, equipment or material specifications, engineering validation, 3-D renderings, interconnection policy, electric tariff analysis, and energy production estimates.
- Provide engineering and/or technical input and direction relevant to site evaluation and characterization, permitting, Power Purchase Agreements, Interconnection Agreements, financial modeling, and related project development tasks.
- Perform detailed energy production modeling calculations, string sizing, PV array to inverter matching, voltage drop, as well as orientation and inter-row spacing analysis.
- Snow and soling loss calculations
- 3-D shade modeling
- Solar resource assessment and analysis
- Perform electricity tariff analysis, electricity bill analysis, and load versus energy generation analysis.
- Review and understand state and local discretionary permitting rules, requirements, setbacks, and limitations.
- Engage in Request for Proposal (RFP) review, and response coordination
- Maintain a deep understanding of the National Electrical Code (NEC), the International Building Code (IBC), and the International Fire Code (IFC), National Electrical Safety Code (NESC)
- Learn to use PVsyst, HelioScope, PVCase, and Microsoft Excel