Electrical Staff Engineer, Solar

Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking an Electrical Staff Engineer to join our team in our Charlotte, NC office. Westwood has a highly experienced and dynamic team of individuals dedicated to providing high-level professional services to our clients.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and/or wind systems.
• Lead electrical engineering portions of commercial projects and utilize scale solar and/or wind projects.
• Coordinate with other project disciplines including civil engineers, geotechnical/structural engineers, and surveyors.
• Perform electrical calculations and studies such as short circuit, load flow calculations and voltage drop.
• Coordinate with clients, utilities, and code enforcement officers.
• Provide quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) of design work performed by interns, graduate engineers, and staff engineers.
• Maintain awareness of currently available equipment and industry best practices and collaborate with and support electrical engineering teams in other offices as projects and workload sharing between offices dictates.
• Support construction of the project by responding to contractor and owner requests including RFIs and submittal review.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Energy, or Mechanical Engineering or closely related field and 2 to 5 years of experience in electrical systems design.

Additional experience includes:

• National Electrical Code.
• Alternating current to direct current (AC/DC) design theory.
• AutoCAD
• Reading construction drawings and specifications.
• Microsoft Office.
• Electrical system modeling software such as ETAP.
• Electrical conductor thermal analysis software such as Cymcap.
• PV layout software such as Helioscope.
• Writing electrical system study reports (short circuit, arc flash, conductor sizing).
• Photovoltaic energy modeling software such as PVSyst.
• Analysis of photovoltaic system production guarantees.
• Medium voltage underground circuit design and layout.
• Battery energy storage systems (BESS) collection design and layout.
• Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) certification.
• Must have current authorization to be employed in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.