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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Permit Design Manager to lead our Solar PV permitting design team. This role requires a strong foundation in residential and commercial PV system design, as well as permitting processes across various jurisdictions, and effective team leadership. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing a team of design engineers, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of permit-ready plan sets, and continuously improving design processes. This is a key leadership role within a fast-growing, mission-driven organization.
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Key Responsibilities and Outcomes
1. Team Leadership & Management
· Manage, mentor, and support a team of junior and senior permit design engineers.
· Set performance expectations and conduct regular reviews to ensure team development and productivity.
· Facilitate technical training sessions and promote cross-functional knowledge sharing.
· Ensure effective resource allocation and workload balancing across team members.
2. Permit Design Oversight
· Oversee the end-to-end creation of permit plan sets, including layout design, SLDs, electrical calcs, conduit and wire schedules, and compliance with AHJ/utility codes.
· Review and approve complex design cases and edge scenarios.
· Stay current with national and local codes (NEC, IRC, IBC) and integrate updates into team practices.
· Ensure designs are compliant with jurisdictional permitting standards and customer requirements.
3. Process & Quality Management
· Implement and optimize standard operating procedures (SOPs) and quality control checklists.
· Lead design audits, identify root causes of errors, and drive corrective actions.
· Ensure KPIs such as turnaround time, first-pass yield, and design accuracy are consistently met or exceeded.
· Continuously improve design workflows to enhance efficiency and scalability.
4. Cross-functional Collaboration
· Coordinate closely with Management and Engineering teams to ensure smooth project hand-offs.
· Act as the point of contact for escalations related to permitting design and proactively resolve issues.
· Participate in client calls and meetings or internal planning discussions as needed to align design processes with overall business objectives.
5. Training & Development Responsibilities
· Design and execute onboarding programs for new design engineers to ensure quick ramp-up on tools, standards, and processes.
· Conduct regular technical training sessions on solar PV design principles, code compliance (NEC, local AHJ), and permitting workflows.
· Develop training materials, design templates, and SOP documentation to standardize knowledge across the team.
· Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to build technical depth and design accuracy.Identify skill gaps within the team and implement targeted upskilling programs.
· Lead periodic knowledge-sharing sessions to review updates in tools, permitting regulations, or internal process changes.
· Track training effectiveness and engineer performance improvements post-training.
About the Company
PremiumCAD is the one of the leading providers of Solar PV installation Design and Drawing Services. We are focused on partnering with solar installers and contractors in the U.S. to bring in efficiencies on the Solar Designs and Engineering Drawings.
PremiumCAD has years of experience in Engineering & Design industry and has been provider of quality services to numerous clients and partners across US and Europe. We offer solar design service at competitive cost and quick turnaround time.
All designs adhere to the AHJ Regulations, Building Codes, Fire Codes, NEC & Utility regulations. We have extensive experience in designing of residential solar system.
We have capabilities to review and stamp the Permit designs across 50 states using our partnerships with various Engineering firms in the US.
PremiumCAD applies industry best practices, collaborating with its trusted professional partners and a skilled in-house team of engineers and project managers to design the ideal system for each customer site. Every system is expertly engineered to meet local electrical and structural code requirements. Our comprehensive drafting, design, and engineering services allow us to deliver a complete design package, streamlining the permitting process.