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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”

Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
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.
Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
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.
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.

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

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