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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”.

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Tasks for “Solar Engineer”

Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
Perform computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
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.
Conduct engineering site audits to collect structural, electrical, and related site information for use in the design of residential or commercial solar power systems.

Related Technology & Tools

Accelerated weathering machines
Flexure testers
Picoammeters
Thermopiles
Recording ammeters
Spectrophotometers
High-precision balances
Environmental chambers
Spectroscopic ellipsometers
Photoluminescence spectrometers
Flow coulometric detectors
Hardness testers
Phase angle meters
Moisture analyzers
Thermal cyclers
Chronopotentiometers
X-ray photoelectron spectrometers
Digital pattern generators
Electron energy loss spectrometers
Liquid chromatographs LC
Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
Digital imaging microscopes
Bench ovens
Atomic absorption spectrometers
Load frames
Differential scanning calorimeters
Voltmeters
Permeation testers
Current versus voltage IV curve tracers
Laboratory tube furnaces
Vacuum ovens
Video cameras
pH meters
Rheometers
Apparent power meters
Spectrocolorimeters
Solar simulators
Hand calculators
Photovoltaic array simulators
Mask aligners
Hipot testers
Creep testers
Auger electron spectrometers
Mechanical shakers
Focused ion beam FIB systems
X ray diffractometers
Direct current DC power supplies
Power quality meters
Ion mills
Strain gauges
Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
Pull testers
Fluorescence spectrophotometers
Polarographic analyzers
Thermocouples
Inert atmosphere glove boxes
Compression testers
Plotters
Mass spectrometers
Ultrasonic cleaners
Graphics tablets
Tensile testers
Adhesion testers
Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
Film extruders
Laser printers
Meggers
Optical scanners
Ultraviolet UV exposure units
Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
Sputtering systems
Raman spectrometers
Infrared cameras
Vacuum laminators
Lasers
Scanning probe microscopes SPM
Coulometers
Copy machines
Abrasion testers
Pyranometers
Laser facsimile machines
Thermogravimetric analyzers
Vacuum evaporators
Data loggers
Fatigue testers
Lifetime testers
Irradiance detectors
Electrometers
Impact testers
Transmission electron microscopes TEM
Reactive power meters
Electron beam evaporators
Micromanipulators
Potentiostats
Goniometers
Reflectance spectrometers
Spin coaters
Optical compound microscopes
Personal computers
Digital resistance thermometers
Surface profilometers
Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
Shear testers
Humidity ovens
Scanning electron microscopes SEM

Microsoft Project
Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
Microsoft PowerPoint
Autodesk AutoCAD
Finite element method FEM software
National Instruments LabVIEW
PVsyst
Microsoft Access
Simulation software
HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
SolTrace
Solar Advisor Model
The MathWorks MATLAB
PV Optics
Microsoft Word
TurboCAD IMSI
Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
Data acquisition software
RETScreen
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Microsoft Excel
SOLAR-2
ANSYS FLUENT
Autodesk AutoCAD LT
National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
Energy-10
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Office
Global positioning system GPS software