Solar Evaluator Job Description

Quick Look

The goal of SunCommon is to dramatically increase the production of solar energy in Vermont. This venture is a scale-up of an amazingly successful pilot project that made it easy and affordable for folks to go solar. Ours is a “triple bottom line” benefit corporation — committed to people, planet and profit. We launched March 8, 2012 and already have changed the solar landscape in Vermont.  So we’re continuing to expand, to meet the demand we’re creating.

About the Business

SunCommon is a game-changer for Vermont’s renewable energy sector. We’re finally make it easy and affordable for Vermonters to go solar.  Our business is based on a successful pilot project that placed 300 solar systems on Vermont homes and businesses in just one year.

We begin with a community organizing approach to marketing, via high-touch, personal interactions with home and business owners who want solar but can’t figure it out or don’t think they could afford it.  We’ve done all the legwork to put together a total package that’s easy for the customer.   We picked the best equipment manufacturers, lined up the finest installers, and arranged discounted financing. We then handle the permitting and walk the customer through the whole process.   Our volume and efficiencies let the customer get solar power for about the same monthly cost they pay their utility for dirty power.

About this Position

Each customer is assigned to a Solar Evaluator who visits them in their home to gather the technical information to design their solar system and then discuss their solar options at the kitchen table to show their options for going solar.  Our business depends on Evaluators delighting our customers.

This is the most varied of SunCommon’s jobs — requiring attention to the home’s solar resource available to generate electricity, structural ability to host solar equipment and the customers’ desires – all in order to provide our customers with a clear proposal of the solar system can best serve their needs.

Essential job functions:

• Meet the customer’s needs — by gathering information and developing a relationship to understand the their goals and fashion options to meet them.
• Diligent follow-up, to ensure the customer’s questions are answered and they’re comfortable with our process, offering and detailed proposal.
• Exhibit positive, enthusiastic personality is absolutely key.
• Establish engaging, empathetic demeanor.
• Capture technical measurements, sketching diagrams.
• Maintain mobility to climb stairs, inspect attics, and traverse uneven topography.
• Ability to drive a car and maintain a clean driving record.
• Sketch diagrams.
• Manage Customer Relationship Management software (Salesforce).
• Effective time management.
• Operate in collaborative, team atmosphere – giving and taking feedback to improve your personal performance as well of that of your team and the entire business.

Job Qualifications:

• Proven experience in sales.
• Solar industry experience is a plus but not required.
• Handiness, meaning familiarity with construction and building structures.
• Proficiency in using IT hardware (iPhone, MacBook, iPad) and software (MSOffice, CRM and file management).
• Strong and confident team player with solid relationship building skills.
• Articulate in person and by phone, clear and efficient writing ability for emails.
• A clean driving record so you drive a company-issued vehicle.
• Desirable is a demonstrated commitment to social change.

 How We Work

We feel a huge responsibility to succeed, to honor our triple bottom line commitments to people (our employees and their families, our customers and residents of the communities where we do business), planet (Vermont’s beloved environment and the broader globe, given climate change) and profit (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a reasonable return to our investors).

This is important work, and we have fun doing it.  Innovation is exciting stuff.

We do it by celebrating creativity, cross-function collaboration, high energy, hard work, good play, deep networking and with the acknowledgement that we’ll each make mistakes and learn from them.  We know success.  We know fun.  Come do both with us.

In addition to meaningful work, we offer competitive salary and generous benefits (health, dental, paid leave time, retirement contribution).  Our values are reflected in our workplace — Vermont’s only net-zero office building with geothermal heating and cooling, solar electricity and hot water, and electrical car charging stations– in a gorgeous setting on the Waterbury/Stowe town line.

Applying

Send a cover letter indicating what attracts you to this adventure and what you would bring to it along with your resume to info@SunCommon.com .

SunCommon of course is an equal opportunity employer and we don’t tolerate harassment or other discrimination based upon sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, race, color, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other legally protected status.

December, 2012