Sr Eng II - Generation Controls

Job Description

Power the future of Nevada with us. At NV Energy, we help sustain one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time-the modern electrical grid. Our teams keep Nevada's power plants running safely, reliably, and efficiently so millions of customers can count on the energy they need every day.

We're looking for a Controls Engineer who's energized by solving complex problems, uncovering root causes, and bringing clarity to the connection between physical equipment and digital systems. If you love the challenge of making critical infrastructure smarter, stronger, and more resilient, you'll thrive here.

Join a company that invests in innovation, values engineering excellence, and makes a direct impact on the communities we serve.

Be part of the team that keeps Nevada's lights on-and helps shape the future of energy.

Basic Purpose
Provides engineering design and support services for the electronics and software required to control and manage power generation, automatic generation control and real time energy management. Conceives, develops and implements unique solutions to controls problems. Provides technical direction and project support to plant or control center staff on controls matters.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Provides control system software and hardware support to ensure safe, optimal and reliable operations. Works with Operations and corporate technical staff to assist with troubleshooting, determining solutions, and supporting corrective actions for instrumentation and programming logic issues. Works with Operations and corporate technical staff to develop and implement control system logic, display modifications and custom functions. Works with the control system software vendors to resolve issues that have escalated for product support. Oversees the plant industrial control systems, ensuring they are able to reliably meet the dispatch demand requirements.

Leads the development of operating and maintenance standards to improve operating reliability, flexibility, and efficiency of generating facilities.

Inspects and evaluates generating equipment and process conditions and prepares forward projections of operating and maintenance requirements to optimize production.

Develops the business cases, scoping documents, budgets, and schedules, as well as the testing, installation and commissioning for control system projects. Communicates with project managers and attend meetings to keep up-to-date information about upcoming projects, process improvement and root cause analysis teams. Performs the routine aspects of assignments requiring knowledge and application of basic engineering principles. Provides after-hours support on call basis. Provides outage support and delivers on continuous performance/reliability improvement initiatives.

Provides comprehensive training to operating, maintenance, and engineering staff as needed for power generation fleet.

Provides technical review of new generation and delivery acquisitions and construction.

Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company.

Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Essential Education, Skills, and Environment
Education and Work Experience
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field and 8 years industry experience as a practicing engineer, and must be a licensed PE. If no PE license, must have 10 years as a practicing engineer.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrated knowledge of:

• Control system logic, configuration and design control loops
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Computer networking, such as switches, firewalls, routers, and network ports (TCP, UDP)
• Experience with historian, predictive and performance monitoring systems and current smart field instrumentation
• Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
• Experience in generation plant processes or transmission and distribution processes.

Demonstrated skills such as:

• Analytical, problem solving, decision making, and interpersonal
• Process thinking
• Self-starting, time management, organizational
• Communication, oral and written, of technical issues
• Communication of technical issues to a non-technical audience

Equipment and Applications
PCs, word processing, spreadsheet, and database software.

Work Environment and Physical Demands
General office environment. May require work near moving parts, in outdoor weather conditions, and near extreme heat. Some exposure to loud noises is required. Some overnight travel is required.

Note:
This position may be filled at a lower classification such as Senior Engineer I, Engineer II or Engineer I.

About Us

NV Energy is looking for qualified people to join us in one of the premier energy companies in the West. Located in the fastest growing state in the United States, NV Energy provides electricity to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada as well as a state tourist population exceeding 40 million annually. Among the many communities we serve are Las Vegas, Reno-Sparks, Henderson, Elko and South Lake Tahoe. We also provide natural gas to more than 155,000 citizens in the Reno-Sparks area.

About the Team

NV Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.