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