Electric Engineering Solar Technician

Step into a dynamic role in our Electric Engineering Division within the Electric Utility Department. In this technical engineering position, you’ll work directly with the Electric Engineering Technician Supervisor, playing a vital role in driving forward innovative projects and advancing our commitment to renewable energy.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 
1. Net Metering Expertise: Manage net metering requests for customer-owned photovoltaic (solar) systems across single-phase residential, single-phase commercial, and three-phase commercial setups.  
2. Stakeholder Relations: Build and sustain positive relationships with customers, contractors, and equipment providers to ensure seamless collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
3. Document Analysis: Review and analyze a variety of system application documents, such as electrical diagrams, construction drawings, system specifications, and contracts, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
4. Technical Aptitude: Conduct electrical calculations and apply OEU design standards to determine system sizing approval and operational requirements.
5. Application Management: Log, review, and respond to incoming documents, promptly providing acceptance or specifying necessary corrections. Keep applicants updated throughout the process.
6. Communication Oversight: Track and archive all communications with customers, contractors, and providers for each unique net metering application.
7. Real-Time Documentation: Maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation on all applications through a shared access system, promoting transparency and inter-divisional collaboration.
8. Site Inspections: Conduct site inspections for all net metering applications to ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
9. Project Documentation: Prepare detailed documentation, including scope-of-work, design criteria, supporting data, and contract requirements for Tier-3 net metering applications. Oversee customer invoicing, payments, consultant invoice reviews, and interconnection study report deliverables.
10. Technical Tools Utilization: Use GIS, AutoCAD, and work order systems to generate solar work orders and net meter installation requests.
11. Compliance Inspections: Perform post-operation compliance inspections and conduct random audits of solar systems to ensure revenue protection and operational safety.
12. Team Collaboration: Work closely with the OEU Engineering Technician team, assisting with various tasks such as conduit inspections and GIS field accuracy checks as needed.
13. Emergency Response: Availability during after-hour emergencies, demonstrating a strong commitment to our operational response with senior level preparation to ensure a swift and effective response to critical situations.

Perform any other related duties as required or assigned. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE 

• High school diploma or GED required, with a strong technical foundation acquired through coursework. Ideal candidates will have completed classes or gained experience in engineering, physics, mathematics, or fundamental electricity. 
• A minimum of three (3) years of hands-on experience in the electric or utility field is required. 
• Experience as an electric technician, electrician, or similar positions is preferred.

REQUIRED LICENSES/CERTIFICATES

• Must possess a Florida Driver's License with an acceptable driving record. 

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT

• The employee must, within one year of date of hire or promotion, reside and remain within 45 minutes of the assigned work facility. 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES This position will directly supervise 0 employees. This position may indirectly supervise 0 employees. If applicable, supervisory responsibilities include interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. 

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING
MODERATELY DIRECTED. Activities covered by wide-ranging policies and courses of action, and generally directed as to execution and review. 

PLANNING With regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner and/or sequence of performance of own work. CONSIDERABLE RESPONSIBILITY; in addition, the organization and delegation of work operations for a Division of employees engaged in Widely diversified activities. 

DECISION MAKING Performs work operations which permit opportunity for decision-making of minor importance. FREQUENTLY; Performs work operations which permit opportunity for decision-making of major importance. FREQUENTLY; 

COMMUNICATION SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and understand the most complex documents; Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS 
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement. 

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables furnished in written, oral, or diagram formats. 

SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Under GENERAL SUPERVISON where standard practice enables the employee to PROCEED ALONE on routine work, referring all questionable cases to supervisor. 

MENTAL DEMAND
CLOSE; Operations requiring close and continuous attention for control of operations. Operations requiring intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations regarding the organization’s operations. 

USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTER
Occasional use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, etc.) 

ACCURACY
Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected within the department or office in which they occur, but may affect the work of others within the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to trace errors and make corrections. 

PUBLIC CONTACT
Frequent contacts with general public, patrons, or other outside representatives, wherein the manner of handling these contacts has a bearing on the organization’s position and operation. 

EMPLOYEE CONTACT 
Contact with other departments or offices and also frequently with individuals in middle level positions; consulting on problems that necessitate judgment and tact, plus frequent contact with senior level internal officials. 

SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

• 10-Key None Accounting Basic 
• Alphanumeric Data Entry Intermediate 
• Contact Management Basic Database Intermediate 
• Enterprise Resource Planning Basic 
• Human Resources Systems None
•  Payroll Systems None 
• Presentation/PowerPoint Basic
• Programming Languages None 
• Spreadsheet Intermediate 
• Word Processing/Typing Intermediate 

OTHER SKILLS 
Knowledge of regulatory standards, proficiency in CAD drafting, and proficiency in blueprint reading. 

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES 
While performing the functions of this job, the employee may be required to: 

• Stand Frequently 
• Walk Frequently 
• Sit Frequently 
• Use hands to handle or feel Frequently 
• Reach with hands and arms Occasionally 
• Climb or balance Occasionally 
• Stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl Occasionally 
• Talk or hear Frequently 
• Taste or smell Occasionally

WEIGHT LIFT REQUIREMENTS 
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move: Up to 25 pounds 

VISION REQUIREMENT 
Specific vision abilities required by this job may include: Distance vision (driving vehicles or equipment; work duties such as surveying that requires clear vision at twenty (20) feet or more). 

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS 
The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Work near moving mechanical parts (spinning shafts, engines, lifts, etc.) Never 
• Work in high, precarious places (tall structures, bucket lifts, extension ladders, etc.) Occasionally 
• Fumes or airborne particles (painting, sanding, solvents, flying lint or dust particles, etc.) Never 
• Toxic or caustic chemicals (including potential for chemical spills, etc.) Never 
• Outdoor weather conditions (exposure to outdoor heat, cold or inclement weather) Regularly 
• Wet or humid conditions (not weather-related, such as greenhouse, carwash, etc.) Occasionally 
• Extreme cold (not weather-related, such as freezer, cold storage, etc.) Never 
• Extreme heat not weather-related, such as furnace, kitchen, ovens, etc. where temp is regularly above 100 degrees F) Never 
• Risk of electrical shock (live electrical wires, equipment that retains power after shutoff) Occasionally 
• Work with explosives (TNT, dynamite, nitroglycerine or other related explosives) Never 
• Risk of radiation (x-ray equipment, nuclear radiation, electromagnetic radiation, etc.) Never 
• Vibration (jack hammer, soil compactor, equipment that creates high vibration, etc.) Never 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually Moderate (business office with computers/printers, light traffic, etc.) 

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs, or technological developments).

Salary : $48,040 - $63,800