Summer - Solar & Energy Storage - Engineer

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Title: Summer 2026 - Solar & Energy Storage - Engineer
Company: Tampa Electric Company
State and City: Florida
- Mulberry
Shift: 8 Hr. X 5 Days

Tampa Electric and its sister companies serve a role in providing critical services to our community during an emergency. Team members are required to participate in the response/recovery activities related to emergencies/disasters to maintain service to our Tampa Electric customers. Team members are required to work in their normal job duties or other assigned activities. Proper compensation will be made in accordance with the company's rules and procedures.

Responding to storms will be considered a condition of employment.

This position is responsible for assisting the Solar department in the daily operation and maintenance activities for the solar and energy storge sites and support the engineering team in tracking of effective inspection, monitoring, environmental compliance, and preventative maintenance programs.

As a successful candidate for our Co-Op/Alternate—Solar & Energy Storage Engineering, you would perform the following.

• Assist in the development, implementation and maintenance of a comprehensive data collection and predictive modeling tool for solar facilities and collector stations that assists in the prioritization of expenditures.
• Assist in the facilitation of system root cause analysis for solar facilities and collector stations.
• Assist in facilitation and tracking of resulting action plans to maintain appropriate system performance.
• Support the verification and management of each solar site’s as-built drawing to ensure the most recent version is in Open Text.
• Assist in document creation to support operations and to create standards to use as the department grows with ever-changing technologies.
• Assist the Solar Turnover group with walk down of sites before they are handed over to Solar and Energy Storage Operations.
• Assist in the operation of all battery storage facilities, including creating operating procedures and schedules and performing all necessary testing.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly communicate ideas to all levels within the organization
• Strong self-motivation complemented with high productivity to perform well
• Ability and desire to learn work management systems in power generation and delivery
• Strong project management and time management skills
• Knowledge of database concepts

The successful applicant should be in their second, third, or fourth year of an ABET-accredited university or college, undergraduate- or a graduate-level, post-secondary educational program in an engineer discipline. To qualify as a co-op student, enrollment in the university’s co-op program is required.

Engineering majors from an ABET accredited university or college

Builds Strong, Collaborative Relationships
Cultivates Innovation and Embraces Change
Drives Operational Excellence for Customers
Speaks Up on Safety, Health, and the Environment
Thinks Strategically & Exercises Sound Judgment

Solar Operations Center 5050 State Road 60 Mulberry FL 33860

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