Applications and Integration Specialist

About the role

Provide specialized technical expertise in performance monitoring and control-system data integration for power generation assets using EtaPRO and SCADA environments, leveraging industrial communications standards (OPC, DNP3, Modbus) to support reliability and operational analytics.

Responsibilities

• Apply transformer diagnostics expertise by interpreting dissolved gas analysis (DGA) results and integrating DGA insights into EtaPRO for continuous asset health monitoring and early anomaly identification.
• Perform advanced diagnostics and condition assessment using EtaPRO performance indicators, alerting logic, and industry standards (e.g., IEEE C57.104) to support predictive maintenance and reduce corrective maintenance risk.
• Support regulatory and internal performance reporting by validating operational and asset data quality, reconciling plant KPIs, and enabling analytics consumption through approved enterprise reporting platforms (e.g., SAS, if applicable).
• Collaborate with I&C, electrical, and cybersecurity stakeholders to ensure secure, standardized industrial communications (OPC, DNP3, Modbus), maintain data interface integrity, and support high availability of monitoring/SCADA connectivity.
• Provide EtaPRO subject-matter expertise by standardizing configurations, authoring technical guidelines, and training engineering/O&M users to ensure consistent monitoring practices across facilities.
• Support delivery of operational insights through analytics visualization (e.g., Qlik Sense) by defining KPI requirements, validating data sources, and presenting asset performance trends for engineering and O&M decision-making.
• Troubleshoot complex performance monitoring and SCADA data issues (signal quality, communications, historian alignment) and provide technical recommendations that improve plant operability, reliability, and data-driven maintenance decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and 5 years of experience supporting power plant operations through power system analysis, EtaPRO-based performance monitoring, SCADA data validation, and operational performance analytics for generation assets.
• 5 years of experience in:
  • Experience using EtaPRO for power plant performance monitoring, diagnostics, and asset performance analysis in operational generation environments.
  • Experience with industrial communication protocols, including OPC, DNP3, and Modbus, within power generation and operational technology (OT) environments.
  • Experience supporting power plant operational performance and maintenance decision-making through analysis of real-time and historical operational data.
• 4 years of experience in:
  • Cybersecurity principles and best practices applicable to industrial control systems and operational technology (OT) environments in power generation facilities.
  • Experience supporting regulatory and internal performance reporting for power generation assets, including data validation, KPI reconciliation, and compliance-oriented analytics.
  • Experience working with SCADA systems and control-system operational data to support power plant monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance evaluation.

Location

1065 Woodman Drive, Dayton, OH 45432 (25% Travel for technical support to AES generation plants and participation in special integration projects)

To apply: E-mail resume to applicationsUS@aes.com. Please use reference Job Code 10118748.