Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Testing or evaluating photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
• Reviewing specifications and recommending engineering or manufacturing changes for achieving solar design objectives.
• Performing thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
• Developing standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation working.
• Designing or developing vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
• Providing technical direction or assistance for installing, starting up, configuring, testing, commissioning systems, or monitoring the performance.
• Performing computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production for optimizing efficiency.
• Developing design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
• Creating plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.