Scada Engineer

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Fantastic opportunity to join a stable Global Energy centric organization as a full-time direct hire Scada Engineer.

The position will start out as an on-site role but will turn into a hybrid work schedule located in the downtown Houston area.

Excellent salary and benefits package!!!!

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• The Scada Engineer will serve as a liaison between business/users and software engineering teams or third‑party system providers.
• Define business and technical requirements.
• Contribute to the delivery of solutions in partnership with the business.
• Ensure the quality of deliverables and alignment with business expectations.
• Provide general support to the business as needed.
• Act as an expert for IoT/SCADA and provide advice as needed to business and IT teams
• Design solutions for the connectivity, management, optimization and dispatching of energy assets, which may be wholly owned by TotalEnergies or a third party
• Manage and coordinate activities to connect energy assets across a range of different markets/geographies, and provide ongoing technical support
• Support the transition & implementation of alternate dispatch solutions including working with 3rd party solution providers
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, NERC CIP and technology standards and provide inputs to security and other audits.
• Provide inputs to the overall design of the trading landscape, including the integration of the industrial IT with the Trading IT
• Coordinate across teams in terms of the integration of asset and trading systems
• Maintain an inventory of connected assets, including the design and protocols deployed. Perform onboarding and qualification activities for new assets.
• Stay informed of market/technology developments relevant to your team/role
• Work closely with third party solution providers and IT contractors
• Offer support to the scheduling and dispatch teams including deploying custom dashboards/alerts/tags in the asset dispatch software.

Job Requirements:

• 5 years of work experience in a power production, utility or trading environment with strong knowledge of power trading/scheduling. ISO/RTO knowledge and experience required (ERCOT highly preferred).
• Knowledge of the energy production and trading businesses, including the systems and processes for scheduling, dispatching, optimization and management of assets (including CCGT’s, batteries and renewables), and the connections to system operators (ISO/RTO)
• Expertise in IoT, SCADA systems (i.e. Monarch, Aveva, PI), protocols for data exchange towards energy assets and systems operators (Modbus, OPC, IEC 104, DNP3, ICCP, etc.) and the processes for onboarding/connecting energy assets
• Training and experience (with certifications) of any of IT service management (e.g. ITIL), project management (e.g. PMI, Prince 2), Agile methodologies, Cloud and database technologies, is desirable
• Educated to at least bachelor’s degree level or an equivalent in a business, technology or engineering discipline
• Strong interest in IT and technology, and experience of software engineering and application management
• Fluent in English; competency in French is advantageous