Job Description 

Schneider Electric has an opportunity for a Senior PV Solar Engineer  in our  Apodaca PIIT Location

Schneider Electric creates connected technologies that reshape industries, transform cities and enrich lives. Our 135,000+ employees thrive in more than 100 countries. From the simplest of switches to complex operational systems, our technology, software and services improve the way our customers manage and automate their operations. Help us deliver solutions that ensure Life Is On everywhere, for everyone and at every moment.

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What do you get to do in this position?

GreenStruxure is a partnership combining Schneider Electric’s industry leading energy management and microgrid expertise with Huck Capital’s sustainability-focused investment and operational focus. This partnership creates an innovative alternative for building owners and operators who want to transition to renewable energy to lower emissions, increase resiliency, and reduce costs, without investing in renewable energy assets and relying on specialists to operate the microgrid.

By offering Energy As A Service solutions under an outcome based model, GreenStruxure ambitions to simplify the market adoption of microgrids, that today can be a very custom, complex and expensive process by providing standardized, modular, pre-engineered solutions. GreenStructure’s pipeline projects 5 megatons of greenhouse gas savings.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Electrical and Structural assessments to the sites
• Generate templates for the industrialization of the designing process
• Develop the plant layouts including the other assets of the microgrid: BESS, generator, CHP, Energy Control Center, etc. with the electrical and mechanical interconnection.
• Design of the PV Plant layouts for rooftop, carport and ground-mount solutions, string routes, location of the panels, optimizing the inverters location, AC distribution panels, etc.
• Develop design packages for construction bids, including BOM, construction documents for construction/permit, and technical details.
• Develop Site-Plans, single line diagrams, three-line diagrams, and architectural drawings of the carports for permitting purposes.
• Lead the development of customer design offering of PV system for C&I Project
• Qualification and integration of assets in our systems
• Develop integration studies for specific customer sites
• Support and guidance in implementation in customer projects as a support to CS&T and construction teams.
• Provide technical support throughout the whole lifecycle of the offer and projects.
• Contribute with Technical Standards for PV systems
• Lead the investigation of system failures, and integrate feedback into design and construction standards
• Follow technology advancements, code and policy changes, and safety and reliability practices which impact system design
• Elaborate construction engineering packages for projects.
• Review the detailed engineering ensuring the fulfilment of the requirements to reach the energy and power strategies, and looking for the most cost-effective solutions.

He/She will report to the Technical – Engineering VP in charge of defining the combination of assets that will be integrated in the use cases.

We know skills and competencies show up in many different ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.

This job might be for you if you fit the following requirements:

• 5 years’ experience including solar field design, energy storage, conceptualization, applicable code requirements and standards. Work will include optimization of projects, calculations, physical and electrical layout, as well as work with other discipline teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Language: Advanced English required 
• NABCEP PV associate or NABCEP PV board certifications will be a plus
• International travel could be required, U.S. Tourist VISA is required

Technical skills:

• Experience with Aurora Solar and/or Helioscope
• Experience in PVSyst
• Proficiency in AutoCAD. ACE toolset will be a plus.

Experience in Sketchup, Revit, or alike.

• Advanced understanding of the NEC and best practices for solar construction of rooftop, carport, and ground mounted PV systems
• Excellent computer skills with experience on the MS suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project
• Excellent project management skills to support multiple projects

Soft skills:

• Maturity, vision and assertiveness about what will best fit the requirements
• Autonomous and comfortable with creation and analysis of complex models to support making effective decisions.
• Ability to work autonomously and effectively with periods of limited direct supervision
• Communicate efficiently on the solutions proposed, in both written and oral English, and adapts to audience whatever level
• Speed in decision making, Focus and work intensity
• Multidisciplinary knowledge
• Detail oriented
• A strong personal drive and interest in reliability and continual process improvement

Relationships:

• Comfortable in multi-cultural environment, and cross functional teams
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and cooperate effectively with multidisciplinary and multinational teams.
• Shares proactively his/her experience and knowledge to ensure people around her have the proper context of the decisions they contribute to.
• Comfortable in all environments, internally, with partners, and with customers.
• Ability to engage executive and engineering audiences.
• Ability to influence and socialize technical ideas across the company at a global level.

Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, a culture of wellness, and more great benefits above and beyond a typical employer. Click to find out more about working with us: http://se.com/mx/carreras

We seek out and reward people for putting the customer first, being disruptive to the status quo, embracing different perspectives, continuously learning, and acting like owners. We’re recognized around the world for welcoming people as they are. We create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are seen as a real value for the company.  See what our people have to say about working for Schneider Electric. 

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