Regulatory Specialist, Residential Energy, Jurisdiction Approvals

This role will facilitate approval and code compliance at national, state, and local levels by developing and aligning product and regulatory requirements. The role involves fostering and sustaining collaboration with channel partners, direct stakeholders, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ) to ensure seamless and efficient permit and inspection processes, as well as conducting market surveillance to maintain ongoing product compliance.
The position is a highly collaborative and cross-functional role that supports both onsite and offsite outreach to undertake field evaluations, training, audits, and incident triage. You'll develop whitepapers, processes, and outreach procedures to facilitate market access while identifying improvement opportunities.
The role requires a base understanding of requirements and development towards codes and standards comprehension, excellent communication skills, technical writing capabilities, and minimal oversight with strong leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Support and manage regulatory deployment to utility requirements for residential energy products, including national, state, and local deviations
• Proactively develop product and market regulatory literature to support new product introduction
• Support utility authorities having jurisdiction with onsite/offsite calibrations, certifications, and audit requirements
• Communicate code compliance, product listing applicability, and product functionality to internal and external teams to ensure systems can be installed and approved as intended
• Develop processes and tools that will aid the continuation of national, state, and local jurisdictional collaboration based on code compliance
• Proactively collaborate with engineering, product, deployment, and service teams to ensure residential energy product acceptance based on code compliance
• Develop and conduct training for internal and external stakeholders
• Identify and drive regulatory KPIs to continually improve interconnection roadblocks
• Create compliance strategies, key project metrics, and dashboards for project status communication to streamline interconnection and sustainment processes
• Conduct project evaluations, post-mortems, and drive process changes to incorporate learning

Requirements

• Engineering degree or at least 5 years of related work experience in a design/product deployment role
• Ability to read and communicate wiring schematics and product work instructions for renewable energy systems
• Strong understanding of the National Electric Code for renewable energy, particularly solar and energy storage related articles
• Familiarity of product standards (UL 2202, UL 2594, UL 2252, UL 2251, UL 9741, UL 2750, and UL 2231-x)
• Knowledge of national building/construction codes
• Understanding of renewable energy permit and inspection requirements
• Proficiency in project management with life cycles, agile methodologies, and project evaluations
• Highly proficient with desktop applications such as MS Office, MS Project, Jira or similar, and SQL skills
• Willing to travel (international, national, state)

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program