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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
Also Known As…
- Solar Engineer
- 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 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 Energy Systems Engineers”
- Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
- 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.
- Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
- Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
- 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.
- Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
- Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
- Perform computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
- Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
- Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
- 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
- Vacuum evaporators
- Sputtering systems
- Compression testers
- Impact testers
- Copy machines
- Digital resistance thermometers
- Differential scanning calorimeters
- Load frames
- Rheometers
- Video cameras
- Ion mills
- Flexure testers
- Electron energy loss spectrometers
- Direct current DC power supplies
- Thermogravimetric analyzers
- Potentiostats
- Graphics tablets
- Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
- Irradiance detectors
- High-precision balances
- Liquid chromatographs LC
- Photovoltaic array simulators
- Recording ammeters
- Spectrocolorimeters
- Hand calculators
- Film extruders
- Digital pattern generators
- Electron beam evaporators
- Spin coaters
- Electrometers
- Lifetime testers
- Creep testers
- Mask aligners
- Laboratory tube furnaces
- Personal computers
- Environmental chambers
- Ultraviolet UV exposure units
- Data loggers
- Current versus voltage IV curve tracers
- Polarographic analyzers
- Shear testers
- Hipot testers
- Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Picoammeters
- Scanning probe microscopes SPM
- Tensile testers
- Reflectance spectrometers
- Solar simulators
- X-ray photoelectron spectrometers
- Accelerated weathering machines
- Bench ovens
- Inert atmosphere glove boxes
- Spectroscopic ellipsometers
- Fatigue testers
- Optical compound microscopes
- Focused ion beam FIB systems
- Spectrophotometers
- Laser printers
- Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
- Infrared cameras
- Laser facsimile machines
- Mechanical shakers
- Humidity ovens
- Plotters
- Digital imaging microscopes
- Lasers
- Thermal cyclers
- Mass spectrometers
- Thermopiles
- Permeation testers
- Fluorescence spectrophotometers
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Abrasion testers
- Phase angle meters
- Adhesion testers
- Auger electron spectrometers
- Chronopotentiometers
- Optical scanners
- Atomic absorption spectrometers
- Moisture analyzers
- X ray diffractometers
- Reactive power meters
- Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
- Raman spectrometers
- Micromanipulators
- Hardness testers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Vacuum ovens
- Vacuum laminators
- Voltmeters
- Surface profilometers
- Pull testers
- Apparent power meters
- Goniometers
- Photoluminescence spectrometers
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Coulometers
- Pyranometers
- Power quality meters
- pH meters
- Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
- Thermocouples
- Meggers
- Strain gauges
- Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
- Flow coulometric detectors
- Microsoft Excel
- Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
- Microsoft Word
- Global positioning system GPS software
- PVsyst
- Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
- SOLAR-2
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft Outlook
- Data acquisition software
- ANSYS FLUENT
- PV Optics
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
- Finite element method FEM software
- RETScreen
- HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
- Simulation software
- SolTrace
- Energy-10
- Solar Advisor Model
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Access
- Autodesk AutoCAD LT
- Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
- Microsoft Project
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- TurboCAD IMSI