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