SCADA Engineer

About the role

NovaSource Power Services is seeking an experienced SCADA Engineer. We are an independent Solar Operations and Maintenance provider currently servicing more than 30 GW of solar assets worldwide. This role will report to the Senior SCADA Manager and will be responsible for providing SCADA Engineering expertise to the global fleet.

Responsibilities

• Respond to daily requests for SCADA engineering support for the global fleet of power plants.
• Conduct root cause analysis on NSPS SCADA application issues, including data/network communication failures, HMI graphic issues, alarming issues, and application performance issues.
• Conduct preventative maintenance on SCADA systems, such as upgrading or patching application software, managing credentials or other access controls, and taking backups of application software.
• Execute additional fee service projects, such as SCADA designs or upgrades.
• Build and maintain critical infrastructure to support and monitor global assets.
• Participate in execution of additional fee service projects, including design and build new SCADA configurations from scratch, gather quotes and create purchase requests for SCADA equipment and software licenses, configure or program RTU’s or PLC’s, and communicate professionally with customers.
• Travel to sites for system installation and commissioning, alarm dictionary reviews, and other tasks.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering disciplines: Electrical, SCADA, networking, server, and application, cloud infrastructure, Network and Firewalls, new technologies, digital platforms, protocols as minimum.
• Accomplished user of Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools: Outlook, Excel, Power Point, SharePoint.
• Effective communication in both verbal and written format in English.
• Ability to prioritize day-to-day work and maintain high attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Microsoft Visio experience preferred.
• Basic understanding of solar plant controllers, substations, inverters, and approved cyber security practices.

SCADA Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of SCADA automation design or minimum 3 years of SCADA integration and support experience.
• Experience with Ignition as must and N3uron SCADA software as plus.
• Experience executing a minimum of three large SCADA projects from end-to-end (design to commissioning).
• Experience with creating HMI graphics from single lines or P&IDs.
• Extensive experience with Modbus, DNP3, MQTT, and OPC-UA protocols.
• Experience with Modicon M340 PLC programming, Rockwell PLC programming, and SEL RTAC programming.
• Experience with remote desktop, SSH, and telnet access methods.