Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.

•Preparation and oversight of project electrical design drawings complete with supporting calculations, including single line schematics, DC wiring schematics, electrical site plans, and equipment layouts.
•Oversee and manage a group of junior electrical design engineers to complete multiple projects. Manage several electrical design consultants to meet project workload.
•Project development activities: Site audits, identification of electrical design opportunities and constraints, preparation of proposal and project specification documents, evaluation and recommendation of major electrical components.
•Interaction with electric utilities to become familiar with specific codes to interconnect PV solar plants to the national grids.
•Interaction with existing and prospective vendors of major equipment, such as inverters, transformers, switchgear, electrical cable, etc.
•Evaluation of new commercial and utility PV industry products, including inverters and combiner boxes.
•Interaction with electrical contractors on job sites to answer questions, review change requests, revise designs as needed to accommodate unanticipated field conditions, etc.
•Support operation and maintenance personnel with electrical related expertise
•Interaction with field inspectors and plan checkers to evaluate proposed design methodology, with thorough Code knowledge and application

Education and Experience:

•Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering with an emphasis in power systems
•Minimum 10 years experience in Power Systems Design
•PV Commercial and utility scale power industry experience preferred
•PE license required

Knowledge/Skills:

•Thorough knowledge of the NEC as it relates to commercial and industrial power systems design
•Knowledge of NEC Article 690 preferred
•Knowledge of electrical design, materials and methods of installation in power systems
•Knowledge of distribution and/or transmission design is a plus
•Proficient in power systems analysis software is a plus
•Proficiency with AutoCAD and generating detailed construction drawings
•Ability to coordinate and manage group of junior engineers to meet project deadlines
•Ability to evaluate, hire, and manage consultants for design of multiple projects
•Highly organized and capable of working on multiple projects
•Good communication skills

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