SMA Solar

Application Engineer

SMA Solar

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Milton Keynes • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Providing high-level technical support to SMA’s customers and the SMA Distribution Partners.
  • Assisting the SMA Sales team with solar and storage projects in the residential, commercial and utility segments.
  • Supporting the Sales team with utility-scale solar and storage project enquiries – including plant design optimization, MV requirements and grid connection requirements.
  • Coordination with SMA Product Managers and UK/IRE grid regulation bodies to ensure that all product certification requirements are provided ahead of time.
  • Support sales & marketing teams in activities such as product launches, exhibitions, roadshows, product positioning, expert talks, tech-tips etc…
  • Performing in-house and external training courses for customers and employees as well as on-site at the customer training facilities.
  • Develops training material content in line with current market requirements and technical trends.
  • Develops and implements comprehensive content plans and strategic training schedules.

Requirements

  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree or similar in Electrical Engineering with several years of work experience in an electrical technical environment.
  • Has at least three years of working experience as a pre-sales engineer or equivalent role.
  • Ideally has in-depth knowledge of the UK electricity market and photovoltaics, battery storage systems, EV chargers and their monitoring devices.
  • Experienced in configuring solar/storage plants in PV-Syst, PV*Sol, SunnyDesign etc.
  • Has an excellent working knowledge of MS Office applications, particularly PowerPoint & Excel.
  • Has a strong sales and customer focus, good people skills and is a highly motivated self-starter.
  • Fluency in English language (written and oral) is a must, German/French/Dutch is a plus.
  • Willing to frequently travel within UK, and more occasionally in West European countries.
  • Ability to manage heavy and varied workloads.
  • Flexibility, dynamism and ability to juggle diverse roles simultaneously is key for this exciting role.
Benefits
  • medical insurance
  • pension plan
  • long-term disability
  • life insurance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Electrical Engineeringpre-sales engineeringphotovoltaicsbattery storage systemsEV chargersPV-SystPV*SolSunnyDesigntechnical supportplant design optimization
Soft skills
sales focuscustomer focuspeople skillsself-starterflexibilitydynamismworkload managementcommunicationtraining developmentteam coordination