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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 Development Engineer”

Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
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.
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.
Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
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.
Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.

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