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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 “Consulting Engineer”

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.
Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
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 computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
Conduct engineering site audits to collect structural, electrical, and related site information for use in the design of residential or commercial solar power systems.
Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.

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Optical scanners
Lasers
Sputtering systems
Solar simulators
Spectroscopic ellipsometers
Thermogravimetric analyzers
Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
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Film extruders
Load frames
Data loggers
Tensile testers
Coulometers
Rheometers
Digital imaging microscopes
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Power quality meters
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Pull testers
Graphics tablets
Auger electron spectrometers
Vacuum evaporators
Hardness testers
Bench ovens
High-precision balances
Environmental chambers
Differential scanning calorimeters
Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
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X-ray photoelectron spectrometers
Raman spectrometers
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Infrared cameras
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Micromanipulators
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Hipot testers
Hand calculators
Liquid chromatographs LC
Creep testers
Fluorescence spectrophotometers
Thermopiles
Scanning probe microscopes SPM
Electrometers
Apparent power meters
Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
Optical compound microscopes
Impact testers
Thermocouples
pH meters
Potentiostats
Accelerated weathering machines
Focused ion beam FIB systems
Flow coulometric detectors
Digital resistance thermometers
Plotters
Adhesion testers
Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
Vacuum laminators
Flexure testers
Laser printers
Lifetime testers
Personal computers
Current versus voltage IV curve tracers
Scanning electron microscopes SEM
Inert atmosphere glove boxes
Laboratory tube furnaces
Laser facsimile machines
Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
Reactive power meters
Meggers
Phase angle meters
Photoluminescence spectrometers
Atomic absorption spectrometers
Goniometers
Permeation testers
Electron beam evaporators
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Video cameras
Surface profilometers
X ray diffractometers
Transmission electron microscopes TEM
Shear testers
Electron energy loss spectrometers
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Humidity ovens
Digital pattern generators
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Copy machines
Ion mills
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Polarographic analyzers
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Fatigue testers
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Thermal cyclers
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Moisture analyzers
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Simulation software
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Microsoft Excel
HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
SOLAR-2
Global positioning system GPS software
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Project
Autodesk AutoCAD LT
Solar Advisor Model
Autodesk AutoCAD
RETScreen
PVsyst
National Instruments LabVIEW
TurboCAD IMSI
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Microsoft Outlook
SolTrace
Microsoft Access
ANSYS FLUENT
Data acquisition software
Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
Energy-10
The MathWorks MATLAB
Microsoft Word