First Solar · 3 months ago
Head- Performance and Prediction Analytics USA
Perrysburg, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$210K/yr - $305K/yr
10+ years expFirst Solar is a leader in solar manufacturing, and they are seeking a Head of Performance and Prediction Analytics to drive the expansion of their manufacturing footprint and enhance energy prediction accuracy. This leadership role involves overseeing initiatives related to product performance validation and analytics, collaborating across business units, and providing education and support to customers and partners.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for model development and implementation to ensure accurate global prediction capabilities of First Solar’s historical and future products
Establish and maintain global fielded product experience programs to continuously evaluate product performance creating and sharing deeper understanding and insights across First Solar and the solar industry
Lead the verification and validation of various reliability models & predictions to continuously improve capability for fast and accurate product development
Collaborates as a performance and prediction subject matter expert with the solar PV community including strategic customers, national labs, 3rd party labs and independent engineers to advance product prediction capabilities and product adoption
Brings insights and understanding to leadership through energy prediction and performance analytics
Operates, maintains, and develops state-of-the-art global field test sites
Manages a team of subject matter experts in operations, data analytics and field performance prediction technology
Continually strives to build and maintain a global culture where the appropriate application of advanced field analytics is performed to achieve maximum efficiency and speed while ensuring the correct objective conclusions are made
Leads quantitative method development to understand process to performance correlation to ensure product design robustness
Other duties as assigned
Job description subject to change at any time
Qualification
Required
Technical bachelor's degree in engineering, Material Science or related discipline
Knowledge in Statistics, Modeling, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
15+ years of industrial experience in engineering discipline including volume manufacturing and process/product improvement
10+ years of relevant work experience in related statistical analysis, data mining and problem solving
10+ years of engineering leadership or management experience
10+ years of technical experience in the PV industry preferred
Accountability: Takes responsibility for one's actions, doesn't point fingers, and delivers results aligned with organizational goals
Collaboration: Works with others to achieve a common goal with the possibility of producing an outcome greater than one that would be developed in a silo
Agility: Constantly evolves to capitalize on emerging opportunities in a rapidly changing environment
Effective Communication Skills: Clearly articulates ideas, thoughts, and information to different audiences
Strategic Thinking: Has a strategic mindset, identifies upcoming trends, opportunities and risks
Technical Knowledge: Has the necessary knowledge relevant to their work to deliver the expected value
Disciplined and Methodical: Approaches tasks in an organized and structured manner
Analytical Aptitude: Visualizes, gathers, and aggregates information
Builds High Performing Teams and Talent: Keeps the bar high for talent
Preferred
10+ years of technical experience in the PV industry preferred
Company
First Solar
First Solar manufactures thin film photovoltaic modules and provides PV power plants and supporting services.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.17BKey Investors
U.S. International Development Finance CorpMizuho Corporate Bank
2023-07-06Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2021-12-07Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2021-04-01Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Mark Widmar
CEO
Angela Younes
Office Manager/Assistant to the CTO
Recent News
2026-01-07
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