**Job Summary**:
As the Senior Field Applications Engineer you will have a highly visible role within the business leading the technical sales o f our D ur a T r a c k ® H Z, Ominitrack and H250 T r a c k e r, product configuration and project design services for your assigned market. This involves managing the scope of services and associated processes to deliver industry-leading technical support to a rapidly growing market. In this unique role, you’ll need to combine the technical expertise of an engineer with the customer service mindset of a business development manager.
**Key Job Responsibilities**:
- Serve as the primary technical contact for key customers during the pre-sales process
- Identify independent engineers in the region and empower them to differentiate our products over competition
- Drive the validation of ARRAY’s product port folio with strategic customers
- Create and deliver technical presentations for customer meetings
- Champion product features and enhancements and process improvements to increase commercial success
- Determine technical project design requirements. Revision and interpretation of technical documentation to stablish site specific design requirements
- Design the tracker configuration to meet customer requirements and coordinate the different project-specific design requirements inside the department
- Build strong technical relationships with customer’s engineering leadership
- Collaborate with customers to identify technical project requirements in RFPs
- Analyze and cost optimize the tracker design of the projects
- Address escalated issues, technical or otherwise, from others in the Applications Engineering team
- Provide support to contract activities to ensure design requirements have been met
- Pro v id e on-site custo m e r pr e -s a le s engineerin g suppor t
- Provide input to product feature enhancements and process improvements
- Work with a geographically dispersed sales team
- May require occasional evening and weekend hours
- May require occasional national and international t ravels
**Qualifications**:
- Ba c h el o r ’ s d e g r e e i n mechanical, industrial, civil or aeronautical e n gi n ee r i n g
- 8 + ye a r s working in the e n g i n e e r i n g field
- Bilingual English/Spanish skills
- 4 + years’ experience using m e c h a n ic al a n d s t r u c t ur al s y s te m s
- 4 + 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
**Preferred qualifications**:
- E x p e r ie n c e i n s ol a r, r e n e w a b le s, o r p o w e r g e n e r a ti o n e q u i p m e n t
- Det a i l o r i e n te d and deadline driven with excellent p r o b le m - s ol v ing abilities
- S t r o n g te c hn ic a l s k il l s and t h e a b il i t y t o e ff ecti ve l y c o m m u n ic a t e t ec h n ic al i n f o r ma t io n
- Outstanding communication, presentation, interpersonal and multi-tasking abilities
- Ability to work well independently as well as part of a team across multiple organizations
- Ability to thrive within a fast paced, smaller company environment