[TRNSYS-users] Opportunities at Abengoa Solar Inc. (USA)

[Diego Arias <daarias@uwalumni.com>]

Dear all,

At Abengoa Solar, we are currently looking to hire several positions to support our R&D efforts.  Both positions will be located in our office in Denver, CO.

Thermal Systems Model Developer:
This position will be responsible for developing modeling and analysis to support development, engineering, and R&D activities of CSP plants and technologies, including:
-        Develop models and tools for optimizing design and assessing performance and cost of concentrating solar power. Includes: components, collectors, subsystems and plants. Prepare documentation of models and tools to describe modeling approaches and assumptions (60%).
-        Support systems analysis of various components and systems for R&D activities. Generate documentation of analysis as required for tasks and reporting (30%).
-        Support field test of components, collectors, and plants to validate assumptions used in analytic models as appropriate (10%).
For this position, programming experience is a must (Fortran, C or Matlab). We rely heavily on TRNSYS and EES; knowledge of these is a plus.

Thermal Systems Analyst:
This position will be responsible for conducting analysis and data collection to support development, engineering, and R&D activities of CSP plants and technologies, including:
-        Support systems analysis of various components and systems for R&D activities. Generate documentation of analysis as required for tasks and reporting. (30%)
-        Support field test of components, collectors, and plants to validate assumptions used in analytic models as appropriate. (30%)
-        Supply process design input to support engineering design of systems.  (30%)
-        Develop models and tools for optimizing design and assessing performance and cost of concentrating solar power. Includes: components, collectors, subsystems and plants. Prepare documentation of models and tools to describe modeling approaches and assumptions. (10%)

Minimum requirements:
- BS in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
- Master's degree nor required, but desirable.

Abengoa is a reasonably large industrial corporation based in Spain (2009 revenues of about $4.0B). They have 5 business units:
- an EPC Construction company that builds power plants, industrial plants, and transmission lines
- an information technology company that builds SCADA systems to run pipeline, traffic systems, transmission systems, and power plants
- an environmental services company that does specialty recycling and water treatments
- a biofuel company - involved primarily in ethanol production
- a solar energy company - marketing large scale concentrating solar power (CSP) plants.

You can go to either of our two websites to learn more about the company.
www.abengoa.com
www.abengoasolar.com

The solar business is made up of a number of companies. In Spain, we have built the first two commercial solar power towers and three parabolic trough plants; currently we have 193MW of operating solar power plants. 

Abengoa has a separate U.S. company (Abengoa Solar Inc.) that is marketing CSP plants in the US. We currently have 4 R&D contracts funded by DOE, and we are developing a number of large commercial solar power plants in the US; the two main projects will provide more than 500MW, one of them with 6 hours of thermal energy storage. 

Please feel free to contact me for any information regarding these opportunities.

Best regards,

Diego

Diego Alejandro Arias, Ph.D.
diego.arias@solar.abengoa.com
Abengoa Solar 
11500 W. 13th Ave.
Lakewood, CO 80215