Regional PV Design & Engineering Manager:

The Company
Sungevity was founded by a strong team that brings together successful start-up experience, environmental activism, and solar industry leadership. Driven by a passion to help spread solar globally, and a frustration with the manual and costly process of selling residential solar solutions in the existing cottage industry, Sungevity created a unique online platform to make it easy and affordable for homeowners to research, buy and install solar systems. Sungevity’s early success and growth in the Bay Area has proven the power of this approach and the viability of the platform. Now, Sungevity is increasing the scale and speed of delivering on the mission of spreading solar and thwarting climate change by expanding our footprint across the United States and abroad.
 
Culture
Sungevity is a fast growing learning organization that strives for ruthless efficiency and SFUN (Solar for Universal Need). We share a passion for solar as a critical wedge to solve the crisis of climate change. We take enormous pride in our unique offering in the solar industry. Our values are to put the customer first with practical, simple, creative solar solutions. Our signature as a team is that we strive to be collaborative, unpretentious and driven.
 
Regional PV Design & Engineering Manager:
The regional PV Design & Engineering Manager will oversee, manage, coach, and supervise the design and engineering effort for a specific region. Aggressively support the fast growth of a residential focused effort to bring solar power to homes across America. This will require constant visibility of the appropriate capacity to support the regional design operations while sustaining a high velocity through the design effort and strictly enforce the highest level of compliance to our Sungevity Design and Engineering standards. Help build the world’s most energized network of customers who power their lives with sunshine.

• Lead process flow improvements, group innovation, and overall design and permitting efficiencies
• Support automation and an outstanding customer experience both internal and external
• Ensure ongoing training, skill development and continuous team/individual improvement
• Work with Operations teams to create efficiencies in the design process
• Solve issues before they become problems
• Provide team with experience and knowledge on 'constructability' of PV projects and code compliance
• Training and delegation of those on team for upward mobility
• Maintain constant visibility of design capacity and prepare reports
• Support Senior Design & Engineer Specialists in assigning and managing work flow
• Serve on the technical team to provide solutions and direction for challenging issues
• Develop, document and enforce new standards
• Attend conferences and seminars
• Collaborate with Field and Project managers to ensure successful implementation of all projects
• Be part of a greater effort to build efficient solutions for PV deployment across the nation.
• Work with AHJ’s to help streamline the permitting process
• Serve as a liaison to other departments to improve the overall success of the Sungevity customer experience
• Support efforts to minimize project “through- put” and maximize velocity

 
Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent, BA/BS/MA degree preferred
• 3-5 years in the Photovoltaic Industry with hands on experience
• NABCEP Certified
• Ability to read blueprints and plan sets, and understand structural details
• Proficiency in MS Office, with a specific emphasis on Excel
• Intermediate to advanced level of AutoCAD (2D) experience/usage
• Detail oriented and focused on automation
• Organized and able to multi task under tight deadlines
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Excellent knowledge of  National Electrical Code
• Basic knowledge of Google Earth
• PV design and permitting experience working with various AHJ’s