Senior Mechanical Engineer - SolidWorks Engineering on Next Generation Solar Energy Solution

Senior Mechanical Engineer - SolidWorks Engineering on Next Generation Solar Energy Solution

This is an exceptional opportunity for you to leverage your experience from other industries and step into a hot new emerging market. We are creating a brighter future for humanity through solar energy. We need your proven SolidWorks and engineering skills to help our world class team in the design and development of our next generation solar dish concentrators. As our Mechanical Engineer you will be developing our dish structure including the design, test, validation and support in the field. It is our mission to deploy clean and sustainable energy technologies to assist in the abatement of global warming and in directing the market away from old paradigm polluting sources of electrical power generation. Are you up for the challenge? At SES your career can make an impact on a global scale.

Our headline-making technology holds the world's efficiency record for converting solar power to grid quality electricity. Stirling Energy Systems (SES) has been awarded the world's largest solar energy contracts with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to build up to 1,750 MW of solar projects in California. Recently named one of the Top 25 Breakout Companies by Fortune Magazine and ranked #1 in Fast Company's "Fast 50", SES offers strong growth potential in an entrepreneurial and progressive business environment with an emphasis on honesty, integrity and creative solutions. Join the Stirling Engine Team and bring your experience to the fast emerging solar energy industry.

As one of our Senior Mechanical Engineer based in Phoenix, AZ you will have design and development responsibility for the SES Solar Dish Concentrator. Your SolidWorks prowess and experience in structural design, analysis and optimization for high volume manufacturing will enable you to optimize our system and support manufacturing issues. You will be designing for manufacturability, performance and cost. Your experience with large steel structures or automotive experience designing suspension systems or chassis is important as our dish has a mechanical drive that can elevate and rotate the structure. With the support of key suppliers and technical consultants, you will be responsible for the structure’s optical performance, reliability, and qualification. Any experience with optics or civil engineering will be an asset to you as this dish concentrator includes mounted mirrors and is installed/anchored in the earth. This is a truly unique opportunity were your future with SES can lead to a brighter tomorrow!

All applications for this position are accepted via our online interview system, managed by Accolo. You can begin the interview process or refer someone you know by going to this link:

http://jobs.accolo.com/13098

Once you have completed the interview, your information will be sent directly to the hiring manager for decisions on the next steps. Regardless of the outcome, Stirling Energy Systems Inc. or Accolo will keep you updated as to your status by e-mail or phone.

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