Role: Solar Engineer
Location: Varanasi
About the role:
The Solar Engineer role will work on installations & commissioning of solar system post sales. This role will drive quality installations & ensuring effective monitoring. This role will manage the vendors for installation and sourcing along with ensuring optimal customer centricity and inclusivity. This role will supervise a team of installers ensuring customer-centric and inclusive service delivery.
What you will be expected to do:
- Conduct meetings with customers to provide a high-level project overview, confirm system design, oversee project execution, and ensure effective team coordination.
- Conducting site surveys, assessing feasibility, energy production potential, load calculations and assisting the sales team in finalizing proposals for the customers.
- Oversee techno-commercial proposals, including payback calculations for solar photovoltaic systems, ensuring financial viability and long-term efficiency.
- Manage site activities from Power Purchase Agreements to Commissioning, followed by operations & maintenance to ensure system sustainability.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction/labor contractors and customers for smooth execution & partnership.
- Oversee end-to-end operations for rooftop solar projects, including planning, execution, procurement & net meter liaisoning.
- Supervise subcontractors, ensuring progress monitoring and adherence to quality standards.
- Conduct regular site inspections to uphold safety and compliance protocols.
- Manage on-site and remote activities with a strong focus on efficiency and quality control.
- Optimize customer satisfaction by identifying workflow bottlenecks and implementing solutions to enhance responsiveness and reduce cycle times.
- Lead negotiations with installation & commissioning vendors to finalize contracts and optimize vendor selection & their onboarding.
- Oversee testing and commissioning of solar systems post-installation.
- Maintain documentation including Book of standard materials for rooftop solar customers, Book of Material for customers, installation checklists, system handover forms, and photos.
- Develop preventive and corrective maintenance plans to ensure system longevity and efficiency.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- 4–6 years of professional experience in the solar energy sector or a related industry.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with both external business partners and internal stakeholders.
- Have a well-established network within the solar or energy industry.
- Willingness to travel within and outside Uttar Pradesh for 10–15 days per month as required.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with demonstrated proficiency in critical thinking, logical reasoning, and data analysis.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.