Distributed Energy Engineer

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Chemical, Biomedical, and Related Engineering

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Distributed Energy Engineer earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $49,254

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $71,708

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Provides engineering for distributed energy systems which aggregate energy from smaller, decentralized power sources.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Distributed Energy Engineer is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Multi-Tasking: In computing, multitasking is a concept of performing multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time by executing them concurrently.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Preparing Reports: Report Writing is a well-organized writing process that needs enough skill, research, and details.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Storage Systems: Working experience of Storage Systems, which is any computing hardware that is used for storing, porting and extracting data files and objects. It can hold and store information both temporarily and permanently, and can be internal or external to a computer, server or any similar computing device.
• Customer Contact: Experience working with business processes and technologies that are designed to engage customers and facilitate communication by a variety of channels.
• Test Equipment: Test equipment is a general term describing equipment used in many fields.
• Technical Assistance: Working experience of Technical Assistance, which is non-financial assistance provided by local or international specialists. It can take the form of sharing information and expertise, instruction, skills training, transmission of working knowledge, and consulting services and may also involve the transfer of technical data.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Distributed Energy Engineer that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Renewable Energy: Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• ICS Security Standards - NERC CIP: Working experience of ICS Security Standards - NERC CIP. NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) is a set of standards which specifies the minimum security requirements for the bulk power systems. This includes testing, and repairing security issues of critical assets with vulnerability assessment tools such as AVDS.
• Inverters: A power inverter, or inverter, is an electronic device or circuitry that changes direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC).
• Biomass: Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.
• Energy Supply: Energy supply is the delivery of fuels or transformed fuels to point of consumption.
• Renewable Energy: Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Distributed Energy Resource Der Engineer
• Distribution Field Technician II
• Engineer III - Distributed Energy Resource Planner
• Distributed Energy Resource Engineer
• Distributed Energy Resource Engineer Entry Level, Staff, Or Senior

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