Senior Controls/SCADA Engineer (m/w/d)

Overview

Serve as a Senior Controls/SCADA Engineer and subject matter expert for controls, application modes, grid integration, and related systems and processes for utility-scale energy storage solutions.

What you'll do

• Lead the project team in realizing project-specific requirements with existing functionalities.
• Contribute to product development engineering for utility-scale energy storage solutions, including developing, implementing, and testing controls applications.
• Develop standardized test procedures and execute FAT and SAT to reduce commissioning time.
• Perform testing, including hands-on lab testing during evaluations of prototype systems.
• Manage interfaces with clients and subcontractors to ensure Controls compliance.
• Lead the concept during the Tender and Project Execution phases.
• Develop and maintain documentation of Controls infrastructure, including software architecture, hardware, applications, protocols, communication links, and system validation and testing procedures.
• Keep current with company products, developments, and projects as they apply to the Controls network at site and enterprise levels.
• Manage change-control procedures and documentation.
• Remain current on industry best practices and updated technology to provide Controls services.
• Support company strategy and provide relevant reporting and updates to company leadership as needed.
• Develop and recommend performance management and feedback for current Controls technical support KPIs.
• Execute tasks related to Fluence safety KPIs.
• Travel throughout EMEA.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer or industrial engineering with a focus on automation and controls, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant Controls, software, or programming experience with a power utility or related industry and with the design, operation, and maintenance of a power plant.
• Expertise in the electricity transmission/distribution sector and EMS systems, including grid code and requirements analysis and development and testing of algorithms for grid services applications.
• Expertise in SCADA protocols: IEC60870-5-101/103/104, IEC 61850 MMS, DNP3, Modbus and TCP/IP.
• Expertise with PLCs, Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), SEL Real Time Automation Controller (RTAC), SEL relays and meters, Siemens relays and meters, SCADA gateways, and data concentrators.
• Experience with Linux-based systems and commands, high-level programming languages such as Python, shell/bash scripting, and Github.
• Experience with MathWorks Simulink for model-based systems engineering and C/C++.
• Expertise in the design, operation, and maintenance of high-voltage electrical equipment, including but not limited to inverters, transformers, I/O racks, telecommunications, and controllers.
• Solution-oriented mindset.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Travel throughout EMEA is required.