Solar Design Engineer
Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid)
Client Summary:
Our Client provides distributed energy and sustainability solutions to business and industrial (B&I) asset owners across various regional and utility territories and diverse asset classes. Our Client anticipates significant demand for its solutions, which help large B&I portfolio owners develop strategies, business cases, and deployment plans for distributed generation technologies. These technologies are designed to enhance their businesses and can be monitored, maintained, and measured to deliver the expected ESG and financial benefits.
Job Duties:
- Design and engineer system layouts and perform shade analysis for B&I scale solar project feasibility analysis.
- Create single-line diagrams for rooftop, canopy, BIPV, and ground mount PV systems.
- Make copies of drawings and maintain information regarding changes in the database, following company document control protocol.
- Interface with third-party EPCs, design firms, and AHJs to ensure system design conforms with local building and fire codes.
- Perform preliminary energy production modeling for financial analysis and final production modeling for performance acceptance tests using PVSyst.
- Complete other assignments and special projects as directed by the Director of Engineering.
- Travel as needed to perform or witness site surveys, installation QA/QC, system commissioning, and vendor interaction.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Mechanical, Civil, Structural or Electrical engineering, or related engineering field or equivalent educational/ certification background
- PVSyst, SAM, Helioscope, and Aurora software proficiency preferred.
- Solid understanding of drafting and PV techniques like layer control, dimensioning and scaling, sheet sets, xrefs, blocks etc.
- Familiarity with engineering terminology
- AutoCAD proficiency preferred.
- Knowledge of relevant industry design standards such as IBC, NFPA 70E, NFPA 1, OSHA.
- Knowledge of solar electric principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Capability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects with attention to detail.
- Ability to travel 15%- 20% of the time to job site, EPC vendors etc.
- Minimum 1-3 years previous solar design experience with EPC, Developer or Design firm
Physical requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
About Teal Energi:
TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.
TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.
