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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
- 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 Applications Development Engineer
- Applications Engineer
Tasks for “Solar Design Engineer”
- Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
- 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.
- 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 develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
- Perform computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
- Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
- Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
- Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
- Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
- Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
- Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
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- Bench ovens
- Spectrocolorimeters
- pH meters
- Ultraviolet UV exposure units
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- Solar simulators
- Video cameras
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- Thermogravimetric analyzers
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Meggers
- Personal computers
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- Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
- Differential scanning calorimeters
- Vacuum evaporators
- Thermocouples
- Focused ion beam FIB systems
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- Scanning probe microscopes SPM
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- Thermopiles
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- X ray diffractometers
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- Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
- Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
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- Laser printers
- Apparent power meters
- Compression testers
- Irradiance detectors
- Atomic absorption spectrometers
- Electron energy loss spectrometers
- Digital imaging microscopes
- PV Optics
- TurboCAD IMSI
- Global positioning system GPS software
- Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
- National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
- PVsyst
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- SolTrace
- Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
- Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
- SOLAR-2
- Microsoft Office
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Autodesk AutoCAD LT
- ANSYS FLUENT
- Energy-10
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- RETScreen
- Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
- Microsoft Outlook
- Solar Advisor Model
- HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
- Microsoft Project
- Finite element method FEM software
- Data acquisition software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- Simulation software