Solar Power Plant Engineer

beBee Careers is hiring a Solar Power Plant Engineer in Indianapolis, IN. The role involves structural and foundation engineering for solar projects, focusing on national building codes and standards. Responsibilities include analyzing foundation designs, evaluating soil impacts, and preparing structural calculations. Ideal candidates are engineers aiming for Professional Engineer licensure with expertise in steel and concrete design.
Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our team as Associate Structural/Foundation Engineer.

In this role, you will work under the supervision of a Senior Structural/Foundation Engineer to perform solar industry focus structural & foundation engineering. This opportunity is best suited for engineers working towards being licensed Professional Engineers, who possess strong background in steel design, concrete design, and geotechnical testing.

A key responsibility of this role involves applying national building codes, standards, and engineering principles to analyze and design foundations for solar power plant applications.

Responsibilities:
• Apply national building codes, standards, and engineering principles to analyze and design foundations for solar power plant applications.
• Evaluate electrochemical test data for corrosion analysis.
• Evaluate impact on foundations from frost heave due to adfreeze force.
• Evaluate impact on foundations from expansive soils, collapsible soils, sand dunes, etc.
• Calculate design life of foundations using corrosion standards (FHWA).
• Perform desktop study to determine additional risks not normally mentioned in Geotechnical Reports.
• Prepare structural analysis and design of pile foundation calculations considering loads analyzed or provided by third-party vendors, effect of soil corrosion to piles, effect of frost heave, effect of soil swell, and other external forces affecting pile size and length.
• Run pile reveal analysis considering tracker pile reveal, slope, and other limitations issued by tracker vendor.
• Analyze terrain and topography of site to adapt to structural and mechanical parameters of trackers and develop grading requirements for cut & fill using Civil 3D.
• Prepare Pile Plot Plans and pile coordinate system used by construction team during pile installation.
• Review documents provided by third-party vendors such as Trackers, CAB Systems, MET Station, Inverter Skids, and derive loads coming out of these documents for design of piles.
• Prepare Bill of Materials.