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A Solar Engineer designs, installs and maintains renewable energy systems, such as solar panels, to provide sustainable energy solutions for both residential and commercial properties. They must have a good understanding of solar technology and electrical systems, as well as knowledge of relevant design and safety regulations.
Job Tasks :
Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
- Prepare detailed work plans.
Conduct engineering site audits to collect structural, electrical, and related site information for use in the design of residential or commercial solar power systems.
- Collect data about project sites.
Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
- Design alternative energy systems.
Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Create graphical representations of energy production systems.
Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
- Evaluate plans or specifications to determine technological or environmental implications.
- Recommend technical design or process changes to improve efficiency, quality, or performance.
Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
- Determine design criteria or specifications.
Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
- Provide technical guidance to other personnel.
Perform computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
- Create models of engineering designs or methods.
Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
- Determine operational methods.
Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
- Inspect finished products to locate flaws.
Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
- Test green technologies or processes.
Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
- Analyze green technology design requirements.
- Analyze costs and benefits of proposed designs or projects.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
- Design alternative energy systems.