Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in Newark, NJ

Description

Pure Power Engineering is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our Owners Engineering group, specializing in owners engineering, development engineering and quality assurance to provide Nationwide engineering services for investors, owners and financiers of commercial and utility scale solar PV and energy storage projects. This person will possess a wide range of knowledge & experience, in the development, design, installation, & operation of commercial and utility scale solar PV & energy storage systems.

About Pure Power Engineering & the Owners Engineering team

Pure Power Engineering utilizes our unrivaled solar storage expertise to provide high quality engineering that maximize generation revenue and reduce costs, enabling our clients to scale up by completing solar storage projects faster and more profitably. We provide clients with the services and confidence they need to replace fossil fuels and lead the world's transition to sustainable energy.

PPEs Owners Engineering (OE) team provides engineering support for investors, owners, and financiers of commercial and utility scale solar storage projects. Our owner's engineering team ensures client success & maximum profitability by being a trusted advisor in technical risk management and delivery support throughout project development, construction, and operation.

Those that join the company have an opportunity to:

• Work in a fast growing, exciting, & innovative industry.
• Have a career with purpose and impact on the environment.
• Contribute to the best and largest firm in the solar industry with a great reputation built over the past 10 years.
• Take pride that our services really are the best in the industry. There is no “fake it until you make it" here!

Responsibilities

1. Review & quality assurance (primary responsibilities)

• Conduct technical due diligence on designs by third party EORs, as well as projects designed in-house with Pure Power.  
• Review drawings, reports, RFIs, submittals, & contracts and issue comments to customers. 
• Technology evaluation and risk assessment.
• Create reports of findings with photos, descriptions, severity, and recommendations.
• Work as a consultant who assesses technical and financial risk for our customer’s projects.
• Work with the installers/contractors to ensure they understand the problems and solutions to the issues you identified.
• Providing background research on technical questions both for internal use and for clients. 

2.   Energy Modeling & Validation:

• Generate PVsyst models & evaluate 3rd party models, performance guarantee calculations, climate adjusted actual vs expected, etc.
• Gathering actual performance data, filtering it, and performing a wide array of analysis including PR, ASTM capacity tests, and climate adjusted actual vs expected.

3.   Development Engineering

• Planning, conceptual designs, interconnection, equipment selection, and energy models. 

4.   Field Engineering (less than 5% of time)

• Conduct on-site visual inspections for workmanship, code compliance, constructability, and best practices.
• Construction monitoring site visits, reporting on QC issues and overall progress of construction vs schedule.

5.   Leadership & Subject Matter Expert

• Elevate the technical capabilities of the organization.
• Contribute to a centralized knowledge base for others in the company to use.
• Develop training programs such as best practices, troubleshooting procedures, and equipment use.
• Mastery of the NEC and other codes and standards applicable to solar and energy storage systems.
• Create standardized forms the engineers will use in the field. Create methods to digitize all forms, so that they can be quickly turned into a deliverable report.
• Mastery of the National Electrical Code as applicable to solar and energy storage systems.
• Technology evaluation and risk assessment.
• Communication – Ability to be a point of contact for client(s) projects. Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including project owner & investors, off-takers, equipment vendors, etc.
• Execution of work – Manage the parallel execution of multiple projects in various stages. 

6.   Other tasks as assigned. 

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar discipline. 
• Experience in commercial and utility scale solar PV. Experience with energy storage a plus. 
• Proficiency with AutoCAD & PVsyst. Knowledge of SKM and Etap preferred. 
• Able to take highly technical issues and communicate them in a manner that can be understood by non-technical clients. 
• Familiarity with the National Electrical Code (NEC). 

Preferred Qualifications 

• 3 years’ experience in solar engineering and PV industry
• MS in electrical engineering, or other related discipline
• NABCEP PV Installation Professional Certificate
• Professional engineering (PE) license      
• Medium Voltage engineering experience. 
• Experience designing energy storage systems 
• Hands on experience commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting solar PV systems. 

Location

This position will be based out of our exciting downtown Hoboken, NJ Headquarters with the flexibility to work a hybrid in-office and remotely weekly schedule. We are next to public transportation options from NYC and Northern NJ. We also provide a parking spot for the days when an employee wishes to drive to the office and for those that utilize public transportation, we will cover the costs associated with traveling to and from the office.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience. We pay 100% of our employee medical, dental, and vision benefits costs, offer 401k matching, commuter benefits and much more!

Salary Range

$88,000-$115,000 Annually

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pure Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.