Solar technician Jobs in Charlotte nc

Position Summary :

Reporting to the Director of Development Engineering, the Solar Development Engineering Manager is responsible for leading engineering and technical scope for greenfield and M&A solar projects. This role involves managing internal and external personnel to provide optimized plant designs, cost estimates, interconnection analysis, and schedules for utility-scale Solar. Applicants are expected to have strong technical and commercial experience with utility-scale solar energy systems as well as strong understanding of project estimating, project management, and utility interconnection.

Responsibilities :

• Lead engineering support for solar projects modeling, construction, and interconnection for utility scale non-regulated projects nationwide.
• Lead capital cost estimating, contract structuring, permitting, interconnection, use-case analysis, and financial optimization of solar projects.
• Lead acquisition diligence efforts by overseeing the technical evaluation and due diligence process for potential project acquisitions, ensuring thorough assessment and mitigation of technical risks
• Utilize knowledge of renewable energy facilities, utility interconnection requirements, control schemes, and energy contracting to evaluate, identify, and mitigate commercial risks associated with proposed project designs.
• Lead interactions with key internal business unit stakeholders including Development, Finance, Marketing, Project Management and Construction (PMC), Supply Chain, IT, and Health & Safety, among others.
• Manage third-party consultants to address full scope of development process - due diligence fatal flaw analysis, resource assessment, site control, legal, interconnection, community and government affairs, permitting, marketing, construction support, and project finance
• Provides engineering / technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis and resolution of high impact, complex and / or cross-functional problems at a corporate or industry level in engineering.
• Ensures accomplishment of business goals and objectives through effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling and monitoring of work activities where little to no standardization exists; handles unique situations which require searching for solutions which may have corporate or industry impact.
• Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations and sketches with the ability to conduct analysis and recommend process enhancements and standards relative to a corporate or industry level in engineering.
• Conducts engineering and related studies with full technical responsibility for planning and coordinating high-impact complex projects; applies extensive technical expertise to manage projects and disseminate knowledge to enhance the company's competitive position.
• Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations and sketches with the ability to conduct analysis and recommend process enhancements and standards relative to a corporate or industry level in engineering.

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