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About us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world's most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About the role

DNV Energy USA, Inc. seeks a Senior Analyst Solar to work on a hybrid schedule in our Seattle, WA office.

Job Duties:

• Conduct long-term solar resource and energy production assessments for all scales including utility-scale, distributed generation, residential, commercial & industrial, microgrids, and community solar.
• Analyze climatic data and operational production and performance data from solar plants.
• Conduct statistical uncertainty analyses, account for various modeling, and system losses including degradation, and derive component parameters for energy modeling.
• Write technical reports and communicating results to Customers.
• Manage solar energy assessment projects, including customer facing interaction, and data management.
• Lead research, write papers, and present analysis on solar methods at industry conferences and workshops.
• Collaborate and build networks with industry, academia, and national labs.
• Lead Solar Modeling software development team.
• Determine the business case for all suggested improvements implemented in Solar Modeling Software to lead to faster turnaround time on deliverables and increase automation of processes.
• Prioritize all improvements and succinctly summarize in 12-month roadmap. Engage with all stakeholders e.g. energy analysts, internal and external, regional, global, and leadership.
• Support the energy assessment team by providing training or troubleshooting for data analysis tools.
• Together with the internal team, develop and maintain numerical analysis in Python or other computer programming languages.
• Contribute to a diverse working environment, proactively communicate to all stakeholders, give and take feedback, work independently, be accountable for the work performed and delivered.
• Requires 5% domestic, 5% international travel.
• Role is hybrid allowing periodic work from home within a reasonable commuting distance of the Seattle, WA office.

Salary range: $140,920-$163,000/year

What we offer

• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
• 401(k) with company match
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Education reimbursement program
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities
• Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
• Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
• Career advancement opportunities

Our mission is to safeguard life, property and the environment. By joining us, you will work towards our meaningful vision to make a global impact for a safe and sustainable future. DNV offers a congenial working environment, competitive salaries, and an exceptional benefits package.

Local employment conditions apply.

Please visit our website at www.dnv.com

DNV is one of the world's leading certification bodies. We help businesses assure the performance of their organizations, products, people, facilities and supply chains through certification, verification, assessment, and training services. Partnering with our customers, we build sustainable business performance and create stakeholder trust across all types of industries.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity! For more information about your rights under the law, see: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

About you

Main Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering or relevant engineering, atmospheric science or quantitative field of study and five (5) years of experience as a Solar Analyst, Energy Engineer, Energy Analyst or related role where required experience gained.

Special Skills: Also requires experience in the following:

• Three (3) years of solar resource variability and its impact on energy estimates;
• Three (3) years of solar Measure Corelate and Predict (MCP) analysis;
• Three (3) years of fundamental solar modeling principles, familiarity in industry standard solar energy modeling software like SolarFarmer, pvlib, PVSyst, SAM;
• Five (5) years of uncertainty and statistical data analysis;
• Five (5) years of data analysis tools (Python, Pandas, Jupyter, Git, Azure DevOps, VS Code, Excel);
• MS Office Word/Excel, SharePoint, Copilot;
• Working independently, in groups, and as leader;
• Streamlining processes by implementation of process improvement techniques;
• Managing multiple projects at a time and to approach tasks with a customer-centric mindset, with technical rigor and commercial acumen; and
• Writing technical reports and commercial correspondence to verbally convey technical information in a clear and concise manner.

What we offer

• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
• 401(k) with company match
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Education reimbursement program
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities
• Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
• Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
• Career advancement opportunities

Our mission is to safeguard life, property and the environment. By joining us, you will work towards our meaningful vision to make a global impact for a safe and sustainable future. DNV offers a congenial working environment, competitive salaries, and an exceptional benefits package.

Local employment conditions apply.

Please visit our website at www.dnv.com

DNV is one of the world's leading certification bodies. We help businesses assure the performance of their organizations, products, people, facilities and supply chains through certification, verification, assessment, and training services. Partnering with our customers, we build sustainable business performance and create stakeholder trust across all types of industries.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity! For more information about your rights under the law, see: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

About you

Main Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering or relevant engineering, atmospheric science or quantitative field of study and five (5) years of experience as a Solar Analyst, Energy Engineer, Energy Analyst or related role where required experience gained.

Special Skills: Also requires experience in the following:

• Three (3) years of solar resource variability and its impact on energy estimates;
• Three (3) years of solar Measure Corelate and Predict (MCP) analysis;
• Three (3) years of fundamental solar modeling principles, familiarity in industry standard solar energy modeling software like SolarFarmer, pvlib, PVSyst, SAM;
• Five (5) years of uncertainty and statistical data analysis;
• Five (5) years of data analysis tools (Python, Pandas, Jupyter, Git, Azure DevOps, VS Code, Excel);
• MS Office Word/Excel, SharePoint, Copilot;
• Working independently, in groups, and as leader;
• Streamlining processes by implementation of process improvement techniques;
• Managing multiple projects at a time and to approach tasks with a customer-centric mindset, with technical rigor and commercial acumen; and
• Writing technical reports and commercial correspondence to verbally convey technical information in a clear and concise manner.