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Job Description
Perform site-specific engineering analysis or evaluation of energy efficiency and solar projects involving residential, commercial, or industrial customers. Design solar domestic hot water and space heating systems for new and existing structures, applying knowledge of structural energy requirements, local climates, solar technology, and thermodynamics.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2199.11
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Solar Energy Systems Engineers”.
Also Known As…
- Solar Energy Systems Engineers
- Solar Engineer
- Research Engineer
- Renewable Energy Division Manager
- Power Systems Engineer
- Engineering Vice President
- Energy Systems Laboratory Director
- Distributed Energy Systems Consultant
- Consulting Engineer
- Solar Systems Designer
- Solar Project Engineer
- Solar Process Engineer
- Solar Photovoltaic Systems Engineer
- Solar Photovoltaic Product Development Engineer
- Solar Photovoltaic Designer
- Solar Mechanical Engineer
- Solar Energy Systems Engineer
- Solar Energy Systems Designer
- Solar Energy Engineer
- Solar Energy Advisor
- Solar Development Engineer
- Solar Designer
- Solar Design Engineer
- Solar Applications Development Engineer
- Field Engineer
- Applications Engineer
Tasks for “Field Engineer”
- Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
- Perform computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
- Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
- Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
- Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
- Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
- Conduct engineering site audits to collect structural, electrical, and related site information for use in the design of residential or commercial solar power systems.
- Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
- Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
- Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
- Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
- Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
Related Technology & Tools
- Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
- Strain gauges
- Compression testers
- High-precision balances
- Accelerated weathering machines
- Scanning probe microscopes SPM
- Bench ovens
- Spectroscopic ellipsometers
- Raman spectrometers
- Abrasion testers
- Digital resistance thermometers
- Pyranometers
- Polarographic analyzers
- Permeation testers
- Video cameras
- Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
- Photovoltaic array simulators
- Recording ammeters
- Vacuum evaporators
- Reactive power meters
- Impact testers
- Micromanipulators
- Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
- Lasers
- Mask aligners
- Rheometers
- Apparent power meters
- Spin coaters
- Atomic absorption spectrometers
- Voltmeters
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Current versus voltage IV curve tracers
- Adhesion testers
- Optical compound microscopes
- Phase angle meters
- Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Mechanical shakers
- Mass spectrometers
- Sputtering systems
- Direct current DC power supplies
- Hand calculators
- Fatigue testers
- Tensile testers
- Vacuum laminators
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Personal computers
- Goniometers
- Digital imaging microscopes
- Moisture analyzers
- Thermogravimetric analyzers
- Irradiance detectors
- Chronopotentiometers
- X-ray photoelectron spectrometers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Auger electron spectrometers
- Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
- Plotters
- Shear testers
- Surface profilometers
- Liquid chromatographs LC
- Vacuum ovens
- Digital pattern generators
- Coulometers
- Flexure testers
- Thermocouples
- Infrared cameras
- Electrometers
- Film extruders
- Hardness testers
- Optical scanners
- Laboratory tube furnaces
- Meggers
- Graphics tablets
- Reflectance spectrometers
- Potentiostats
- Spectrocolorimeters
- Focused ion beam FIB systems
- Lifetime testers
- Flow coulometric detectors
- Power quality meters
- Differential scanning calorimeters
- Laser printers
- Pull testers
- Data loggers
- Hipot testers
- pH meters
- Inert atmosphere glove boxes
- Load frames
- Copy machines
- Fluorescence spectrophotometers
- Spectrophotometers
- X ray diffractometers
- Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
- Photoluminescence spectrometers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Thermopiles
- Creep testers
- Ultraviolet UV exposure units
- Humidity ovens
- Thermal cyclers
- Environmental chambers
- Solar simulators
- Electron beam evaporators
- Electron energy loss spectrometers
- Picoammeters
- Ion mills
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft Project
- Energy-10
- Autodesk AutoCAD LT
- ANSYS FLUENT
- PV Optics
- Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
- Data acquisition software
- Simulation software
- SolTrace
- National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
- Microsoft Word
- Finite element method FEM software
- Solar Advisor Model
- SOLAR-2
- Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
- RETScreen
- Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Global positioning system GPS software
- Microsoft Outlook
- HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
- TurboCAD IMSI
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- PVsyst
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Access