Solar Project Engineer

GCL Solar Energy, Inc., is a premier solar photovoltaic (PV) company with a worldwide downstream IPP project development business, the world's largest Poly-silicon / wafer manufacturer and a has a market capitalization of $8 Billion. The North American IPP development business, located in San Francisco, CA, currently has an opening for a Solar Project Engineer to help optimize and model prospective Utility scale PV projects.

Responsibilities
* Run and Enhance Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Power Plant Performance Model
 Analyze and present results of models
* Integrate plant performance, Time of Delivery (TOD), cost, O&M, and level cost of electricity models (LCOE) into a user friendly, organized, and continually updated application
* PV System Design
 Field Layouts and Optimization
 System and Component Modeling
* Maintain automated spreadsheet for project costs; leveraging off of data provided from projects built by GCL
* Monitor data from operating plants to improve conceptual plant modeling
* Manage, control, and process solar meteorological resource data sets
 Manage measured and modeled data sets for various project sites
 Perform statistical analysis of project site data:
 Solar Irradiance comparisons
 Min/Max/Average temperature analysis
 Max and Average Wind Speeds at sites
Required Qualifications
* BS/MS Engineering with knowledge and interest in the renewable power industry
* 1-5 years solar industry experience
* PVSYST experience
* MS Excel spreadsheet skills
* Strong communications and writing skills
* Data reporting and presentation
* Some programming capability
* Strong organizational skills for data analysis and managing databases
Beneficial Skills
* Able to handle fast-paced, start-up environment with confident results in short time frames
* Strong computing, networking and server experience
* Capable of working with Visual Basic (VBA) in Excel and writing GUIs
* Experience with AutoCAD 2009
* Knowledge of GIS and AutoCAD integration
* Experience with creating and sharing data in Google Earth
* Data analysis and statistics experience
* Advanced Database Skills (MS Access, MySQL)
* Data logger, data collection and instrumentation experience
* Meteorological and weather knowledge
* Experience with image editing software
GCL Solar Energy, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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