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Location: Stamford, CT (In-Office)
Type: Full-time
Position Summary
Venture Home is seeking an experienced Residential Solar Engineering Design Manager to lead the technical quality, standards, and workflow of our residential solar plan set operation.
This is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring expert-level AutoCAD skills and extensive experience creating and reviewing residential solar permit plan sets. The ideal candidate will be capable of personally reviewing complex projects, identifying and correcting design issues, establishing drafting standards, and helping improve and automate the plan set production process.
This position will work closely with Engineering, Project Planning, Site Assessment, Operations, and external design partners to ensure plan sets are accurate, constructible, permit-ready, and delivered on schedule.
This position requires the ability and willingness to regularly commute to Venture Home's headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the creation, review, revision, and final delivery of residential solar permit plan sets.
- Perform detailed quality-control reviews and ensure plans meet company, AHJ, utility, and permitting requirements.
- Personally review and troubleshoot complex residential solar projects when additional technical expertise is required.
- Serve as the team's AutoCAD subject-matter expert, including the ability to create, modify, troubleshoot, and improve residential solar drawings.
- Develop and maintain AutoCAD templates, blocks, details, notes, and drafting standards.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive AutoCAD tasks and improve plan set production efficiency.
- Review residential solar electrical drawings, including single-line and three-line diagrams.
- Review system layouts, electrical equipment, structural requirements, racking systems, roof conditions, and other project-specific design requirements.
- Coordinate engineering requirements, including projects requiring additional structural or electrical calculations, documentation, or PE review.
- Ensure Aurora designs and final permit/construction plan sets remain aligned throughout the engineering process.
- Manage plan set revisions and ensure technical feedback is correctly incorporated.
- Manage and prioritize the plan set pipeline, including workload, turnaround times, quality, and production volume.
- Train, mentor, and provide technical guidance to plan set designers and reviewers.
- Coordinate with and provide technical oversight to third-party plan set providers.
- Track recurring plan set errors, revisions, permitting issues, and installation feedback to improve standards and prevent repeat issues.
- Develop and maintain Plan Set SOPs, technical standards, quality-control procedures, and training materials.
- Work with internal teams to improve Salesforce/CRM workflows and identify additional opportunities for engineering and design automation.
Required Qualifications
- Expert-level AutoCAD proficiency - required.
- Professional experience creating residential solar permit plan sets - required.
- Professional experience reviewing and quality-checking residential solar plan sets - required.
- Strong understanding of residential solar PV system design, construction, and permitting.
- Experience with residential solar electrical drawings, including single-line and/or three-line diagrams.
- Ability to independently identify and correct technical issues within residential solar drawings.
- Strong understanding of drafting standards and plan set quality control.
- Strong technical problem-solving and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a high-volume environment.
- Ability to perform effectively and make sound decisions in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to drive projects and issues through to completion.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to train, mentor, and provide technical direction to designers and other team members.
- Ability and willingness to regularly commute to Stamford, Connecticut.
Preferred Qualifications
- Aurora Solar experience - preferred.
- Working knowledge and understanding of the National Electrical Code (NEC) as it relates to residential solar - preferred.
- Salesforce experience - preferred.
- Google Workspace / Google Suite experience - a plus.
- Experience developing or implementing AutoCAD automation - a plus.
- Experience developing AutoCAD templates, blocks, scripts, or automated drafting workflows.
- Experience managing or providing technical oversight to residential solar designers.
- Experience working with third-party or outsourced plan set production teams.
- Experience with residential solar structural requirements, racking systems, and attachment methods.
- Experience with battery storage systems and residential solar + storage plan sets.
- Familiarity with engineering calculations, PE documentation, and stamped residential solar drawings.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is more than a people manager. We are looking for a highly experienced residential solar designer and AutoCAD expert who can serve as the technical authority for the Plan Set team. This person should be comfortable taking ownership of a difficult project, opening the drawings themselves, identifying the problem, determining the appropriate solution, and ensuring the issue is resolved. The successful candidate will be technically strong, organized, dependable under pressure, and committed to continuously improving the team's standards, tools, automation, quality, and overall performance.
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Residential Solar Engineering Design Manager
Location: Stamford, CT (In-Office)
Type: Full-time
Position Summary
Venture Home is seeking an experienced Residential Solar Engineering Design Manager to lead the technical quality, standards, and workflow of our residential solar plan set operation.
This is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring expert-level AutoCAD skills and extensive experience creating and reviewing residential solar permit plan sets. The ideal candidate will be capable of personally reviewing complex projects, identifying and correcting design issues, establishing drafting standards, and helping improve and automate the plan set production process.
This position will work closely with Engineering, Project Planning, Site Assessment, Operations, and external design partners to ensure plan sets are accurate, constructible, permit-ready, and delivered on schedule.
This position requires the ability and willingness to regularly commute to Venture Home's headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the creation, review, revision, and final delivery of residential solar permit plan sets.
- Perform detailed quality-control reviews and ensure plans meet company, AHJ, utility, and permitting requirements.
- Personally review and troubleshoot complex residential solar projects when additional technical expertise is required.
- Serve as the team's AutoCAD subject-matter expert, including the ability to create, modify, troubleshoot, and improve residential solar drawings.
- Develop and maintain AutoCAD templates, blocks, details, notes, and drafting standards.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive AutoCAD tasks and improve plan set production efficiency.
- Review residential solar electrical drawings, including single-line and three-line diagrams.
- Review system layouts, electrical equipment, structural requirements, racking systems, roof conditions, and other project-specific design requirements.
- Coordinate engineering requirements, including projects requiring additional structural or electrical calculations, documentation, or PE review.
- Ensure Aurora designs and final permit/construction plan sets remain aligned throughout the engineering process.
- Manage plan set revisions and ensure technical feedback is correctly incorporated.
- Manage and prioritize the plan set pipeline, including workload, turnaround times, quality, and production volume.
- Train, mentor, and provide technical guidance to plan set designers and reviewers.
- Coordinate with and provide technical oversight to third-party plan set providers.
- Track recurring plan set errors, revisions, permitting issues, and installation feedback to improve standards and prevent repeat issues.
- Develop and maintain Plan Set SOPs, technical standards, quality-control procedures, and training materials.
- Work with internal teams to improve Salesforce/CRM workflows and identify additional opportunities for engineering and design automation.
Required Qualifications
- Expert-level AutoCAD proficiency - required.
- Professional experience creating residential solar permit plan sets - required.
- Professional experience reviewing and quality-checking residential solar plan sets - required.
- Strong understanding of residential solar PV system design, construction, and permitting.
- Experience with residential solar electrical drawings, including single-line and/or three-line diagrams.
- Ability to independently identify and correct technical issues within residential solar drawings.
- Strong understanding of drafting standards and plan set quality control.
- Strong technical problem-solving and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a high-volume environment.
- Ability to perform effectively and make sound decisions in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to drive projects and issues through to completion.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to train, mentor, and provide technical direction to designers and other team members.
- Ability and willingness to regularly commute to Stamford, Connecticut.
Preferred Qualifications
- Aurora Solar experience - preferred.
- Working knowledge and understanding of the National Electrical Code (NEC) as it relates to residential solar - preferred.
- Salesforce experience - preferred.
- Google Workspace / Google Suite experience - a plus.
- Experience developing or implementing AutoCAD automation - a plus.
- Experience developing AutoCAD templates, blocks, scripts, or automated drafting workflows.
- Experience managing or providing technical oversight to residential solar designers.
- Experience working with third-party or outsourced plan set production teams.
- Experience with residential solar structural requirements, racking systems, and attachment methods.
- Experience with battery storage systems and residential solar + storage plan sets.
- Familiarity with engineering calculations, PE documentation, and stamped residential solar drawings.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is more than a people manager. We are looking for a highly experienced residential solar designer and AutoCAD expert who can serve as the technical authority for the Plan Set team. This person should be comfortable taking ownership of a difficult project, opening the drawings themselves, identifying the problem, determining the appropriate solution, and ensuring the issue is resolved. The successful candidate will be technically strong, organized, dependable under pressure, and committed to continuously improving the team's standards, tools, automation, quality, and overall performance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Engineering Design Manager
Align your credentials with PERM job requirements
Your degree field and years of experience must exactly match what the employer lists in the PERM application. If your foreign engineering degree uses different terminology, get a credential evaluation before the job offer stage to avoid a PERM denial.
Target employers with active EB-3 filing history
Search OFLC PERM disclosure data to identify manufacturers, defense contractors, and infrastructure firms that have filed PERM applications for engineering management roles. Employers with prior filings understand the process and are less likely to abandon sponsorship mid-application.
Clarify sponsorship commitment before accepting an offer
Ask the hiring manager or HR whether the company has an immigration counsel on retainer, not just whether they sponsor. Employers who outsource PERM filings ad hoc often underestimate the timeline and may withdraw support once they see the 18-to-24-month process ahead.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Filter Engineering Design Manager roles by green card sponsorship history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces employers who have already cleared the PERM recruitment process for similar positions, cutting your research time and improving your odds of reaching an offer with a committed sponsor.
Check prevailing wage before your salary negotiation
DOL assigns a prevailing wage level to your PERM job description using OFLC Wage Search. If your offered salary falls below the Level II or Level III wage for your metro area, DOL will reject the LCA, stalling your entire green card process before it starts.
File I-485 concurrently if a visa number is available
If your priority date is current, ask your employer's immigration attorney about concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing. This collapses what would otherwise be sequential waits into a single adjudication window and lets you apply for an EAD while USCIS processes your adjustment of status.
Green Card Engineering Design Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Engineering Design Manager roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Engineering Design Manager positions qualify for both EB-2 and EB-3, depending on the employer's stated minimum requirements. If the role requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive engineering experience, EB-2 is the stronger fit. Roles requiring only a bachelor's with standard experience typically fall under EB-3 skilled worker. The PERM job description, not your actual credentials, determines which category applies.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is temporary and subject to an annual lottery, while PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency and has no visa cap at the EB-3 level for most countries. The trade-off is timeline: PERM recruitment and I-140 adjudication alone take 12 to 24 months before you even reach adjustment of status. For candidates from high-backlog countries like India or China, EB-2 and EB-3 priority date queues can extend significantly beyond that.
Can I search for Engineering Design Manager jobs that already sponsor green cards?
Yes. Migrate Mate lets you filter Engineering Design Manager openings by employers with documented PERM or I-140 filing history, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never navigated employment-based sponsorship. This is especially useful for engineering management roles where sponsorship willingness varies widely between large defense primes, mid-size manufacturers, and startup-stage engineering firms.
What happens to my green card petition if I change employers?
If you change employers before your I-485 has been pending for 180 days, your PERM and I-140 are generally abandoned and you restart the process. After 180 days of I-485 pendency, AC21 portability allows you to move to a same-or-similar engineering management role with a new employer without losing your priority date. Confirm the new role qualifies as same-or-similar under USCIS guidelines before accepting any offer.
What documentation should I prepare before a PERM-sponsored job search?
Gather a foreign credential evaluation from a NACES-member agency, official transcripts, and any professional engineering licenses. If your degree title differs from U.S. norms, such as a Diplom-Ingenieur or BEng, a credential evaluation translating it into U.S. degree equivalency is required for the PERM labor certification. Having these ready before your offer stage prevents delays once your employer initiates the DOL recruitment and filing process.