Job Description
***Travel: Up to 50% required for project execution and commissioning***
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We are seeking an experienced SCADA Technical Project Manager to support utility-scale Battery Energy Storage (BESS), Solar PV, and hybrid renewable energy projects.
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This position combines hands-on SCADA and controls expertise with technical project leadership, supporting projects from engineering and integration through testing, startup, and commissioning.
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Please note: This role requires up to 50% travel to project sites. Candidates must be comfortable with significant travel based on project execution and commissioning schedules.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Lead delivery of SCADA, PLC, RTU, HMI, networking, and plant control systems.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, contractors, EPCs, OEMs, consultants, and vendors.
- Develop, review, and optimize PLC programs using Schneider M340/M580 and similar platforms.
- Oversee SCADA integration utilizing Ignition, OPC, historians, RTACs, and industrial communication networks.
- Lead and support FAT, SAT, commissioning, startup, interconnection, and performance testing.
- Review electrical, controls, communications, and networking drawings and specifications.
- Provide technical leadership for SCADA architecture and plant control strategies.
- Troubleshoot PLCs, RTUs, protection relays, inverters, meters, managed switches, networking equipment, and fiber systems.
- Establish coding, documentation, configuration management, cybersecurity, and version-control standards.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and communicate project status, milestones, risks, and corrective actions.
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Qualifications
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- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Automation, or related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience with SCADA/control systems, including project execution and commissioning.
- Strong experience with Ignition SCADA and PLC programming.
- Expertise with OPC, Modbus, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, CAN, RTUs, historians, and industrial networking.
- Experience with BESS, Solar PV, hybrid plants, utility interconnections, or renewable generation.
- Knowledge of networking, cybersecurity, firewalls, and industrial managed switches.
- Strong technical troubleshooting, project management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50%.
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Preferred
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Experience with renewable energy commissioning, Owner's Representative responsibilities, NERC CIP, utility standards, grid interconnection requirements, and managing multiple concurrent projects.