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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 Mechanical Engineer”

Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
Conduct engineering site audits to collect structural, electrical, and related site information for use in the design of residential or commercial solar power systems.
Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
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.
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.
Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.

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Thermopiles
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Power quality meters
Accelerated weathering machines
Data loggers
Digital pattern generators
Lasers
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Video cameras
Pull testers
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Shear testers
Meggers
Photovoltaic array simulators
High-precision balances
Impact testers
Laboratory tube furnaces
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Scanning probe microscopes SPM
Personal computers
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Mass spectrometers
Photoluminescence spectrometers
Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
Rheometers
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Laser printers
Scanning electron microscopes SEM
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Coulometers
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Environmental chambers
Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
Electron beam evaporators
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Flexure testers
Digital resistance thermometers
Electron energy loss spectrometers
Optical scanners
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Humidity ovens
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Solar simulators
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X-ray photoelectron spectrometers
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Ion mills
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Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
National Instruments LabVIEW
PV Optics
TurboCAD IMSI
Simulation software
Microsoft Word
The MathWorks MATLAB
Solar Advisor Model
Microsoft Office
Global positioning system GPS software
Microsoft Access
Data acquisition software
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
SolTrace
Autodesk AutoCAD LT
Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Finite element method FEM software
Autodesk AutoCAD
RETScreen
Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
Energy-10
SOLAR-2
ANSYS FLUENT
PVsyst
National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Project