Solar PV Design Engineer

Company: 174 Power Global
Location: New York
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

Company:--174 Power Global NorthEast, LLC - New York, NYEmployment Type:--Full-time, ExemptIndustry:--Renewables & Environment, Solar, Utilities & ConstructionCOMPANY OVERVIEW174 Power Global, headquartered in Irvine, California, designs, builds and manages solar power plant solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in solar PV to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes and partnerships to deliver utility-grade solar PV solutions customized for local energy markets. 174 Power Global offers the full spectrum of PV solutions - from power plant development, design, construction, operations and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the solar value chain, 174 Power Global minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in solar energy.POSITION OVERVIEWThe Solar PV Design Engineer takes initial system concept ideas and turns them into fully detailed construction ready designs. Working on commercial, and utility scale solar projects, the Design Engineer has a steady pipeline of diverse projects to design. Coordinating with AHJs, LPCs, and customers, the Design Engineer balances the necessity of a customer solution with the efficiency of standard practices. This position reports to the Director of Operations, or another senior management personnel that the President of the Company may designate.This position is based out of New York, NY and the ideal candidate will be within commutable distance to this location. This position may be required to travel up to 15% of the time.?RESPONSIBILITIES--- Design and engineer commercial & utility scale PV solar systems between 50kW & 5MW in size;--- Develop construction documents using AutoCAD;--- Interface and provide streamlined project information and detailed bill of materials to the procurement managers;--- Travel to project sites from time-to-time to gather site-specific data, as required;--- Site assessment and analysis both from on-site data collection and network tools;--- Contributing to or writing technical papers;--- Site specific production analysis of PV arrays using models such as PVsyst;--- Prepare interconnection and permit design based on respective utilities and AHJs;--- Develop detailed equipment specifications;--- Coordinate activities between clients, utilities, permit agencies, contractors, and other engineering firms;--- Integrating energy storage systems into the solar PV system;--- Provide mentorship and training to new and junior engineering personnel; and--- All other assignments and special projects, as requested by Management.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS-- A degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another related engineering field;-- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience designing commercial and utility scale solar PV systems;-- Adequate knowledge of National Electrical Code;-- Relevant work experience in the design and development of power plants (in particular solar or wind power plants);-- Ability to travel, up to 15% of the time;-- Minimum of 4+ years of experience working with AutoCAD, including an understanding of layer control, dimensioning and scaling, sheet sets, blocks, xrefs, line weights, plot files, etc.;-- Experience in managing a team of Engineers;-- Excellent ability to communicate among construction, technical and non-technical personnel, both internally and outside the company; and-- Comfortable working in a fast-moving dynamic, environment.

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