PGD Engineer- Panel Performance Engineer

PGD Engineer- Panel Performance Engineer

NextEra Energy Resources is one of America's largest wholesale generators of electricity, leveraging all forms of energy across renewables, storage and nuclear. We offer customized energy solutions that drive economic growth, protect the environment, support communities, and help customers meet their energy needs. Ready to make a lasting impact? Join our innovative, world-class team today!

NextEra Energy is currently seeking a Solar Fleet DC Field Engineer who can apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices to a broad variety of assignments and fields related to solar power generation. In this role, the candidate will manage the panel flash testing program using a state-of-the-art mobile lab. This candidate will need to make decisions independently regarding engineering issues and processes. This position requires supervision only related to high level objective and critical issues.

Areas of responsibility will mainly focus on panel flash testing and analysis, including but not limited to :

• Managing a testing program for panel flash testing as a solar panel subject matter expert (SME)
• Operate a state-of-the-art Mobile lab
• Work with third party test centers to validate mobile lab is abiding to top tier testing standards
• Conducting root-cause analysis (RCA) for critical or persistent issues with solar panels
• Acting as the single point of contact for several panel manufacturers
• Assisting the operations team with general DC field support and troubleshooting
• Performing data analytics on test data and provide reports and recommendations
• Creating reliability failure rate curves for component level failures to develop a spare parts strategy
• 50%-80% travel required to move mobile lab trailer between sites
• This position requires the ability to move materials weighing up to 50 pounds

Preferred Qualifications :