Design Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Join one of Rochester's Top Workplaces! 

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Loyal to People. Loyal to Planet.

GreenSpark Solar creates fiercely local, cost-effective, clean energy options in the Greater Rochester Community. We feel a huge responsibility to succeed at GreenSpark. As a B Corporation, success is directly tied to honoring our triple bottom line of commitments to people (our employees and their families, our Customers and residents of the communities where we do business), planet (our local and the broader global environment) and profits (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a return to our investors). This is important work, and we have fun doing it. Our values are reflected in our workplace — our office is directly powered by onsite wind turbines and solar panels, our fleet includes all-electric and hybrid vehicles, dogs roam the office, and we strive to be an unabashedly inclusive, diverse workplace.

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We are seeking a Design Engineer to join GreenSpark Solar! The Design Engineer is responsible for developing and designing ground commercial solar PV projects, and the iterative process of adjusting designs to match real world conditions at individual project sites. This is a job local to the Rochester, NY region. This will include assessing ground conditions; assessing related structural or civil issues from photos, site survey information, or on-site visits; collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to guide projects through the permitting, approvals, and grant(s) processes from contract to completion.The essential job functions of the Design Engineer include:

• Confirming preliminary site data supplied by sales staff.

• Conducting/managing engineering site audits utilizing drone imagery and other technology to collect site information for use in electrical PV designs and physical site layouts

• Performing shade analysis and energy production modeling via PVSyst and/or PVCase

• Researching current National Electric Code, International Fire Code, local building and zoning codes, and other relevant codes applicable to the development of efficient and code compliant designs

• Create electrical single-line and three-line diagrams for solar PV systems

• Create drawing sets for ground mounted arrays in CAD

• Understand and navigate utility interconnection issues.