What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Expert – Power Control Systems position at brk tech, A Berkshire Hathaway Group Company?
Company Overview
Berkshire Hathaway companies power some of the most critical systems in North America—spanning transportation, energy, logistics, manufacturing, retail, and infrastructure. At BRK Tech, we partner across these businesses to build modern, scalable technology platforms that drive real‑world, long‑term impact.
One of our Berkshire Hathaway portfolio companies is hiring an IT Expert, for Power Control Systems based in Houston, TX.
Role Summary
- Architect, design, configure, implement, and support AspenTech GMS solutions, ensuring alignment with operational objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term system strategy.
- Lead and support generation scheduling, dispatch, unit commitment, and performance optimization, enabling efficient and reliable power system operations.
- Own and drive system integrations between GMS and adjacent platforms, including SCADA, EMS, DMS, market systems, and data historians, ensuring seamless data flow across operational and business layers.
- Perform advanced system performance analysis, identify optimization opportunities, and deliver recommendations that enhance reliability, efficiency, scalability, and compliance.
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to operations, engineering, IT, and cybersecurity teams, ensuring secure, resilient, and highly available system functionality.
- Lead system upgrades, version migrations, patching, hotfix deployment, and testing, ensuring minimal operational disruption and adherence to best practices.
- Proactively improves the system’s cybersecurity posture, identifying risks and implementing mitigation strategies aligned with corporate and industry security standards.
- Provide expert-level troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning for complex system issues.
- Lead and drive power systems projects, including system modernization initiatives, new deployments, and enterprise integration efforts.
- Support integration of data management between IT and OT.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, Power Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of experience with generation management systems (GMS)
- Strong understanding of power generation operations, including thermal, renewable, and/or Cogen assets.
- Experience with real-time operational systems and OT/IT environments.
- Knowledge of system integration standards, data flows, and interfaces (e.g., APIs, OPC, messaging).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
- Basic knowledge Inter Center Communication Protocol ICCP.
- A good understanding of IT networks.
- Experience with software programming languages
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with AspenTech EMS, SCADA, or related energy management solutions.
- Knowledge of electricity markets, generation scheduling, and regulatory requirements.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity practices in OT environments.
- Experience supporting 24/7 operational systems.
Note: At this time, this portfolio company will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.