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