Role: SCADA Engineer
Location: Downtown Houston area off Louisiana St - on-site
Summary:
The SCADA Engineer will be part of the IT team. The systems scope includes the asset dispatch and management solutions and the connectivity to the range of energy assets operational in the United States. You will contribute to the design and management of such systems and ensure the effective and secure connectivity of energy assets acquired by the business. You will be a designated expert on IoT and SCADA and related topics within the IT team and towards the business. To support the continued expansion of the business.
Duties:
- Serve as a liaison between business/users and software engineering teams or third‑party system providers.
- Define business and technical requirements.
- Contribute to the delivery of solutions in partnership with the business.
- Ensure the quality of deliverables and alignment with business expectations.
- Provide general support to the business as needed.
- Act as an expert for IoT/SCADA and provide advice as needed to business and IT teams
- Design solutions for the connectivity, management, optimization and dispatching of energy assets.
- Manage and coordinate activities to connect energy assets across a range of different markets/geographies, and provide ongoing technical support
- Support the transition & implementation of alternate dispatch solutions including working with 3rd party solution providers
- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, NERC CIP and technology standards and provide inputs to security and other audits.
- Provide inputs to the overall design of the trading landscape, including the integration of the industrial IT with the Trading IT
- Coordinate across teams in terms of the integration of asset and trading systems
- Maintain an inventory of connected assets, including the design and protocols deployed. - Perform onboarding and qualification activities for new assets.
- Stay informed of market/technology developments relevant to your team/role
- Work closely with third party solution providers and IT contractors
- Offer support to the scheduling and dispatch teams including deploying custom dashboards/alerts/tags in the asset dispatch software.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of work experience in a power production, utility or trading environment with strong knowledge of power trading/scheduling.
- ISO/RTO knowledge and experience required (ERCOT highly preferred).
- Knowledge of the energy production and trading businesses, including the systems and processes for scheduling, dispatching, optimization, and management of assets (including CCGT’s, batteries and renewables), and the connections to system operators (ISO/RTO)
- Expertise in IoT, SCADA systems (i.e. Monarch, Aveva, PI), protocols for data exchange towards energy assets and systems operators (Modbus, OPC, IEC 104, DNP3, ICCP, etc.) and the processes for onboarding/connecting energy assets
- Training and experience (with certifications) of any of IT service management (e.g. ITIL), project management (e.g. PMI, Prince 2), Agile methodologies, Cloud and database technologies, is desirable
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree level or an equivalent in a business, technology or engineering discipline
- Strong interest in IT and technology, and experience of software engineering and application management
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