AP Professionals of WNY
Description
Position Summary:
Develop designs of residential, commercial and utility scale solar systems, including but not limited to the electrical, structural and mechanical aspects of the projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct site visits to plan the locations of equipment and interconnection to the site’s existing electrical system
- Create multidisciplinary engineering designs which produce the associated details and construction documents necessary to direct the construction contractors
- Document industry best practices and design standards
- Establish and maintain design standards for facilities and equipment
- Coordinate evaluation of PV products and emerging technologies
- Provide technical support for review/preparation of proposals
- Provide technical support for interconnection
- Support permitting efforts with municipalities and utilities
- Establishment of performance targets and process for performance monitoring & validation
- Provide technical support during Operations and Maintenance
- Make technology recommendations based on project site location and geographic conditions
- Develop conceptual designs that consider module placement, conduit routing and inverter locations
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Knowledge/ experience with electrical construction documentation
- Understanding of power distribution systems
- Proficient in MS Office tools. (Specifically Excel and Power Point)
- Proficient in AutoCAD or any 3D drafting software
- Some working knowledge of renewable energy engineering
- Knowledge in National Electric Code preferred but not required
- Strong communications and writing skills
- Data reporting and presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills for data analysis and managing databases
- Able to handle fast-paced, start-up environment with confident results in short time frames
- Experience with image editing software