Solar Project Engineer

Position overview

Business development and engineering

• Develop the solar business and identify opportunities across residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and other market segments.
• Build relationships with customers, consultants, contractors, developers, facilities companies, and public- and private-sector stakeholders.
• Conduct customer meetings, site assessments, technical presentations, and proposals; develop business plans, sales strategies, revenue forecasts, and project pipelines.
• Conduct site surveys, energy assessments, load analysis, feasibility studies, and solar resource assessments.
• Design grid-connected solar PV systems and relevant hybrid and battery-storage solutions; prepare layouts, single-line diagrams, cable sizing, protection schemes, and equipment specifications.
• Prepare generation forecasts, energy-yield estimates, performance calculations, and financial feasibility assessments.

Commercial, regulatory, and procurement work

• Prepare BOQs, material take-offs, technical specifications, cost estimates, budgets, tenders, quotations, and technical submissions.
• Assess capital and operating costs, payback, return on investment, lifecycle costs, margins, contractual risks, and commercial viability.
• Coordinate supplier pricing, contract reviews, procurement schedules, technical compliance, delivery, inventory planning, and vendor performance.
• Coordinate Bahrain licensing, relevant authority approvals, contractor qualifications, inspections, project submissions, and grid-connection approvals.
• Maintain licensing, approval, technical certification, inspection, and compliance records.

Project delivery and operations

• Manage projects from award and mobilisation through installation, testing, commissioning, and customer handover.
• Prepare execution plans, schedules, resource plans, method statements, and installation programmes; supervise engineers, technicians, subcontractors, and site activities.
• Coordinate civil works, mounting structures, module installation, electrical cabling, inverters, protection, earthing, and grid-interface works.
• Monitor progress, quality, productivity, costs, deadlines, safety, and approved specifications; coordinate inspections, testing, performance verification, and defect correction.
• Develop preventive and corrective maintenance, system monitoring, fault diagnosis, breakdown response, warranty, repair, and customer-support procedures.
• Prepare performance reports and recommend improvements to reliability and energy yield; develop maintenance contracts and long-term service arrangements.

Leadership, safety, and performance

• Establish technical, operational, project-management, and standard operating procedures for engineering, estimation, procurement, execution, quality, and maintenance.
• Recruit, train, supervise, and develop engineers, technicians, project staff, and subcontractors; coordinate with management and business functions.
• Prepare management reports on sales pipeline, project status, costs, profitability, risks, and operational performance.
• Implement safety practices for electrical and solar installation, including work at height, electrical isolation, testing, and commissioning.
• Prepare and review risk assessments, method statements, inspection plans, and quality documentation; promote environmental responsibility and continuous improvement.
• Performance indicators include business establishment, licensing, sales and revenue, project profitability, timely delivery, installation quality, customer satisfaction, supplier reliability, maintenance response, and compliance.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Renewable Energy Engineering, or an equivalent relevant discipline.
• The posting lists a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience and also states a minimum of 15 years of hands-on experience in its overview.
• Experience across solar PV business development, feasibility, engineering, costing, procurement, installation, commissioning, maintenance, and customer handover is required.
• Strong knowledge of solar modules, inverters, electrical protection, grid integration, system monitoring, and applicable energy storage is required.
• Experience in BOQ preparation, estimation, tendering, budgeting, supplier negotiation, project teams, schedules, safety, quality, documentation, and risk management is required.
• Relevant software may include AutoCAD, PVsyst, PV*SOL, Microsoft Excel, and project scheduling tools.

Preferred qualifications

• GCC experience, particularly in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, or Kuwait, is preferred.
• Familiarity with EWA requirements and Bahrain solar PV approval and grid-connection procedures is preferred.
• Experience with solar EPC, electrical contracting, renewable energy development, commercial and industrial rooftops, or larger ground-mounted projects is preferred.
• Exposure to battery storage, hybrid systems, energy audits, energy efficiency, and power quality is preferred.
• Relevant registrations, technical certifications, renewable energy training, or experience establishing business units and achieving commercial targets are preferred.

Location and employment

• The description states the position is based in the Kingdom of Bahrain and requires relocating there.
• Employment type is stated as full-time.
• The duties include site assessments, installation supervision, inspections, commissioning, and other project-site activities.