SCADA Engineer (REMOTE)

THE COMPANY

Our client is advancing large scale solar energy through digitalization and automation. By developing an integrated software and construction automation platform, they enable smarter design, optimization, and delivery of utility scale solar projects worldwide. Their multidisciplinary team combining solar experts, engineers, and innovators, work across the United States and abroad to accelerate the clean energy transition.

THE POSITION (REMOTE)

The Engineer is responsible for designing industrial network for PV plant application, integrating Project requirement into existing power plant controller programs, installing, and testing SCADA and plant control system for solar, solar and storage and other hybrid plants. The system must bring together multiple sub-systems of the renewable plant to meet the operational and regulatory needs of the owner and the grid operator. The Engineer is responsible for developing and implement logic for complex custom applications, capture client requirements for the system, coordinate with client and contractor, develop, and implement required logic and perform testing and develop HMI screes. The Engineer is responsible for continuous improvement and operational excellence for controls and controls-related systems and equipment to achieve zero-failure rate, eliminate single points of failure, and attain aggressive targets for uptime and reliability. This position is nominally able to work remotely from other locations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with customers; Developers, Owners, Utilities, EPCs, and ISOs.
• Contribute to the design and development of monitoring and control systems for utility scale renewable energy projects.
• Program, install, troubleshoot, test, and commission Remote Terminal Units (RTU’s), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s), & Human Machine Interfaces (HMI’s) for Active Power Curtailment.
• Reactive Power Control.
• MET tower data acquisition.
• High Voltage substation SCADA
• Power Plant Control (PPC) for Solar, Battery Energy Storage (BESS), and Energy Management Systems (EMS’s).

Work with the following technologies and platforms:

• Controls: SEL-RTACs & ControlLogix.
• HMI: Ignition.
• Historian: Ignition, MSSQL, InfluxDB, and Canary Labs.
• Network: SEL, Cisco, Hirschmann, FortiGate, and Moxa.
• Troubleshooting: Putty, Wireshark.
• Develop detailed design documentation including System Architecture Diagrams, Device Points List, IP lists, Logic Diagrams, HMI mockups.
• Generate project documentation including commissioning documents, as-built drawings, operator manuals, and training material.
• Coordinate with field technicians for on-site commissioning and installation support.
• Utilize diagnostic utilities to troubleshoot complex monitoring and control systems.

THE CANDIDATE

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, or related field, preferably with controls major.
• Ability to communicate with team members and business partners.
• Ignition developer with real project experience
  • Ignition Core certified (Gold is a bonus)
  • Field commissioning experience (solar, power plants, industrial systems, substations, etc.)

• 2+ years of IEC 61131-3/PLC programming experience, including structured text and function blocks.
• 2+ years of SCADA development, Ignition experience a plus.
• Working knowledge of programming language. Phyton a plus.
• Experience in setting up virtual machines on physical servers.
• IEC 61131-3, Ladder Logic, Function Blocks, and Structured Text.
• Working knowledge of industrial protocols such as Modbus-TCP, DNP3, OPC-UA, IEC 61850, and ICCP.
• Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Been part of or lead Continuous Improvement/Lessons Learned program.
• Travel, 20-30%