Industrial Controls Specialist

• Experience working in a Power Generation facility
• VMWare vSphere, including vSAN, ESXi, and Center, is nice to have, but not required
• Server management (hardware and software)
• Operating Systems, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, and patching

Basic scripting skills:

• Experience with software supporting patching, antivirus management, listing, listing, configuration management, network and system monitoring, or security and event monitoring Basic Purpose
• Provides engineering design and support services for the electronics and software (Operational Technology) required to control and manage power generation, automatic generation control, and real-time energy management.
• Conceives, develops, and implements unique solutions to operational technology problems.
• Conceives, develops, and advocates strategies for managing obsolescence, replacements, and upgrades.
• Furnishes technical direction and project support to plant or control center staff on operational technology matters. Provides leadership and mentoring for junior engineering staff. 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 for troubleshooting, determining solutions, and supporting corrective actions for instrumentation and programming logic issues.
• Works with Operations to develop and implement control system logic, display modifications, and custom functions.
• Develops Common Information Models for new or modified Generation, Transmission, and Distribution elements.
• Works with the control system software vendors as required for trouble issues that have escalated for product support.
• Provides control system user account administrations for Operations and Maintenance groups. Coordinates Electrical System Control Center (ESCC) local and site failovers for security patching, software upgrades, and other related maintenance.
• Determines applicability and completes testing of security and application updates.
• Assists team members in applying updates.
• Manages and maintains installed computing infrastructure, including network and network-connected devices.
• Manages and maintains computing infrastructure asset inventory.
• Provides beginning-to-end technical support for capital and operations and maintenance projects to include development of the business case, scope, budget, and schedule, as well as testing, installation, and commissioning.