About the role#
Venture Solar is looking for a Residential Solar Engineering Design Manager to lead the technical quality, standards, and workflow of our residential solar plan set operation. This is a hands-on technical leadership position. You will serve as the technical authority for the team, taking ownership of complex projects and ensuring our plan sets are accurate, constructible, and permit-ready.
What you'll do#
- Oversee the creation, review, revision, and final delivery of residential solar permit plan sets.
- Perform detailed quality-control reviews to ensure plans meet company, utility, and permitting requirements.
- Personally review and troubleshoot complex residential solar projects.
- Serve as the team's AutoCAD subject-matter expert, developing templates, blocks, details, and drafting standards.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive AutoCAD tasks.
- Review electrical drawings, system layouts, structural requirements, and roof conditions.
- Coordinate engineering requirements and ensure alignment between Aurora designs and final construction plan sets.
- Manage the plan set pipeline, prioritizing workload and turnaround times.
- Train, mentor, and provide technical guidance to designers and reviewers.
- Coordinate with and provide technical oversight to third-party plan set providers.
- Track recurring errors and permitting issues to improve standards.
- Develop and maintain SOPs and training materials.
- Work with internal teams to improve Salesforce and CRM workflows.
What you'll need#
- Expert-level AutoCAD proficiency.
- Professional experience creating and quality-checking residential solar permit plan sets.
- Strong understanding of residential solar PV system design, construction, and permitting.
- Experience with residential solar electrical drawings, including single-line and three-line diagrams.
- Ability to independently identify and correct technical issues within drawings.
- Strong technical problem-solving and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a high-volume environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to train, mentor, and provide technical direction to team members.
Location & details#
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut.
- This is a full-time, on-site position.
- You must be able and willing to regularly commute to our Stamford headquarters.
About Venture Solar
Venture Solar installs solar panels for residential and commercial clients. The company operates in the Northeast region. It focuses on solar energy transitions to help customers lower electric costs. Founded in 2015, the firm is based in Brooklyn, New York. It maintains a staff of 201 to 500 employees.
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