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Field Applications Engineer III

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Job Summary:

As a Field Applications Engineer, you’ll be our customers’ primary technical resource throughout the project lifecycle. This role requires that you establish and grow strong, positive customer relationships in order to translate customer needs into optimal Array solutions. This position may require occasional evening and weekend hours.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Develop expert-level technical knowledge of Array’s product offering and their corresponding applications

• Analyze and cost optimize projects for competitive positioning of the Array tracker products

• Coordinate required technical design efforts around a project including tracker structure and foundation design

• Support quoting and contract activities to ensure design requirements have been met and Array specifications are defined

• Provide customer pre-sales or post-sales engineering support on-site

• Train EPCs on best deployment practices/methodologies and fastest install techniques

• Identify independent engineers (IE) in the region and empower them to differentiate our products over competition

• Create and deliver technical presentations for customer meetings

• Champion product features and enhancements and process improvements to increase commercial success

• Serve as customer’s primary technical point-of-contact during the pre-sales process

• Work with a geographically dispersed sales team to achieve industry-leading technical sales support

• Build strong technical relationships at the customer level

• Collaborate with customers to identify technical project requirements in RFPs

• Establish site specific design requirements for a project

• Design the tracker configuration to meet site and customer requirements

• Provide timely feedback on questions related to project or product design

• Perform tracker structure design activities for preliminary designs to support quoting process

• Address escalated issues, technical or otherwise, from others in the Applications Engineering team

• Develop and refine processes in coordination with stakeholders from other groups to achieve process improvements

• Support development and evaluation of tools and software applications used by the Applications Engineering Group

• Be expected to travel primarily within the US & Canada, up to 30%

• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering

• 5-7 years of experience in sales, project development, applications engineering or related role

• 3+ years of experience supporting a national market

• 2+ years of working experience in the following:

• Understanding competitive mounting products in utility solar and articulating differences in technology

• Analyzing utility solar project economics including: plant production, CAPEX, OPEX, LCOE

• Navigating the technical requirements of project development, construction and plant operation

• Reviewing and optimizing site layouts using CAD

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly and interact effectively with customers and cross-functional teams.

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced engineering degree

• Experience in the solar market

• Recognition as an industry thought leader

• Ability to work across multiple organizations in a fast paced, smaller company environment

At Array Tech, Inc, we strive to lead with our culture, and believe that our people are a key enabler of our future state. Our total rewards philosophy supports Array’s ability to attract, develop, and retain our employees. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and wellness programs that align with the local markets where we do business.

Array Tech, Inc. offers equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.