Solar Solutions Engineer

About Lumen

Commercial building owners face mounting pressure to decarbonize from investors, tenants, and regulators. Taking action to select a strategy and choose a technology configuration and financing has been confusing, slow, and at best done 1-building-at-a-time with expensive consulting reports that end up on a shelf.

Lumen Energy enables commercial building owners with 10s - 1000s of properties to systematically cut carbon and make money from decarbonization. The Lumen platform synthesizes diverse energy, property, and policy data to automatically build financial models across financing structures for onsite decarbonization strategies that are unique to each property. Building owners can vet project feasibility and economics outcomes with rigor, and receive competitive bids from a managed marketplace of leading financiers to develop, finance, and operate the projects. Lumen makes it easy to evaluate and execute on ambitious decarbonization strategies at scale.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an in-house expert on solar and battery design and deployment for Commercial & Industrial buildings across the country. In this role, you will:

• Own and scale Lumen’s remote design processes for solar and battery proposals at specific properties, including drawings, equipment specifications, sizing considerations and interconnection points

• Act as expert advisor to Lumen’s current and prospective customers on PV and ESS designs, technical project requirements, and end-to-end process from initial modeling to final construction

• Oversee and scale Lumen’s processes for sourcing, selecting, and collaborating with the highest quality EPC partners across the country

• Coordinate with EPC partners on customer development projects, including bid solicitation and site walk scheduling

• Own Lumen’s PV & ESS cost modeling by working with Finance and Engineering to regularly update equipment pricing, installation cost estimates and other inputs into Lumen’s core financial model

• Pilot new offerings for Lumen customers by first developing offline procedures and eventually working with our Engineering team to build into our software solutions

What you’ll bring

• At least 10 years in the solar energy industry, with specific experience overseeing onsite project development from initial engagement to operational launch

• At least 3 years in a customer-facing or sales role, with strong customer communication and technical sales skills

• Strong knowledge of PV & ESS supply chain, equipment, design and installation

• Familiarity with roof types, metering configurations, tenancy, and other relevant details that pertain to Commercial & Industrial buildings

• Deep understanding of the role of Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) providers in solar and battery project development, including the interconnection process with utilities

• Expertise in Helioscope, Energy Toolbase and other common industry tools for designing behind-the-meter PV & ESS projects

• Proven project management skills, with the ability to work autonomously on 0-1 initiatives

• Passion for decarbonization

Nice to have, but not required

• Past experience in, or knowledge of, Electric Vehicle charging installations for Commercial & Industrial buildings

• Past experience working at an early stage start-up