What are the responsibilities and job description for the Power Plant Engineer position at APN Consulting Inc?
Job Title: Power Plant Engineer
Location: Palm Beach County, Florida
Required Skills and Experience:
- Experience in the utility, energy, transmission, distribution, or renewable energy sectors.
- Knowledge of NERC-CIP, industry regulatory standards, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Familiarity with cloud migration, application modernization, and enterprise system integration projects.
- Experience working with power generation technologies such as gas, nuclear, solar, wind, or combined-cycle power plants.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Conduct on-site assessments of power generation facilities, substations, and supporting infrastructure.
- Engage with plant stakeholders, operations teams, maintenance personnel, engineering groups, and IT/OT teams to gather migration requirements.
- Document the current-state architecture, including operational systems, network infrastructure, control systems, applications, and associated dependencies.
- Evaluate plant-specific requirements, operational constraints, and compliance considerations that may impact migration activities.
- Perform gap analysis between current-state and target-state environments.
- Identify risks, challenges, and potential operational impacts associated with site migration activities.
- Develop migration strategies, implementation plans, and detailed requirements documents.
- Coordinate with engineering, cybersecurity, network, SCADA, EMS, and plant operations teams to ensure all migration requirements are captured.
- Support migration planning workshops, stakeholder meetings, and technical review sessions.
- Provide recommendations to optimize migration schedules while minimizing downtime and business disruption.
- Assist project leadership with effort estimation, resource planning, and migration readiness assessments.
Generic Managerial Skills:
- Self-driven, with the ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work during