My client is amongst the leading renewable energy providers globally, and have a very strong business plan and balance sheet. They a specialize in the manufacturing of crystalline silicon modules and are also a leading residential, commercial and utility-scale solar PV developer with a strong market presence in Europe, USA and the Asia-Pacific regions. They are looking to recruit a Senior PV Module Scientist. The Senior PV Module Scientist will be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of the connectivity of the product, upstream and downstream of the assembly process, will remain robust meeting or exceeding current warranty requirements. The Senior PV Module Scientist will ensure all designs will meet or exceed current safety and performance standards.
Core Criteria:
The PV Module Scientist will identify new technological opportunities for their products that improve performance, improve lifetime value, minimize degradation of performance over product lifetime and reduce product cost. The PV Module Scientist will model from first principles, design experiments to validate modeling, and prove the hypothesis by prototyping products. The purpose of the position is maximize the output of the module by reducing optical, electrical, and thermal losses through innovation and successfully bring these innovations into their products. The gains will be determined successful through reduced LCOE and maximizing the product lifetime value for the customer. Identifying a clear path to the market and incorporating the improvements into the Product Road Map is also a very important aspect of the position.
Responsibilities:-
- · PV circuit theory and electrical design plus associated system performance
- · Encapsulation technologies and processes with special emphasis on back contact cell encapsulations
- · Knowledge of all loss mechanisms in the PV module (electrical, optical and thermal) and how to quantify them
- · Cell interconnection techniques for current and future cell designs with special emphasis on back contact cell encapsulations
- · Cable optimization for cost reduction and design efficiency
- · Circuit protection methods including conventional by-pass diode optimization and alternative methods
- · All module integrated electronics for advanced power control and conditioning
- · Act as SPA from appraise stage of projects to define stage when the product is handed over to Product Engineering
- · Coordinate with Global Supply, Quality, Procurement, HSSE, Legal, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure that the new product designs and features can be incorporated efficiently and cost effectively maintaining their Intellectual Property position.
- · Work with materials vendors, new technology companies, Universities, research organizations, standards organizations
Education:-
- · Advanced level degrees (MS or PhD) in science or engineering will be considered, especially if it demonstrates specialization in a related discipline
Core Requirements:-
- · You will have at least 3-5 years related experience in the solar PV industry
- · Must be experienced in the use of MS office suite of programs for communication and basic analysis purposes
- · Experience with DOE and statistical analysis software (e.g. Jump or similar) would be beneficial for advanced data computation
- · Design of experiment as well as laboratory and production line level experimental execution is important. This should be demonstrated in previous work experience
- · Strong communication skills are key with emphasis on report formats that simplify and ease assimilation of data and trends for peers and upper management. This will also involve translating the trends into commercially relevant terms e.g. kW/kWh, performance ratio, ¢/kWh and $/Wp plus LCOE determination
General Requirements:-
- · Ability to manage multiple projects in an environment of constantly changing priorities
- · Ability to analyze and solve complex problems and detecting realistic solutions
- · Ability to manage multiple projects
- · Database competency and share site design would be useful
Key Skills:
Solar PV, electrical engineering or physics, ability to indentifying areas of electrical loss within the module, understanding AC and DC voltage drops.
For more information please send a Word copy of your CV to jobs@viridiumassociates.com, call us on +44 (0) 203 005 5560, or visit www.viridiumassociates.com. No PDFs please. We can only respond to applicants with relevant experience as detailed above.
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