What are the responsibilities and job description for the SCADA Technician position at LCRA?
Here's The Role
If you are looking for an exciting, hands-on career where your skills truly make a difference, the LCRA System P&C (SCADA) group is seeking a motivated individual to join our expert team. In this role, you will travel to various substations across our territory to install, commission, maintain, and repair critical SCADA monitoring and control equipment. You will provide technical support to systems operations, engineering groups, and customers to help implement SCADA systems while building your own expertise through structured assignments and guidance from experienced colleagues. This full-time position offers the opportunity for professional growth and involves some overnight travel, with the possibility of overtime and weekend call-outs. We welcome candidates of all experience levels to apply and help us keep our power systems running reliably.
How You’ll Contribute
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Equal Opportunity Employer
If you are looking for an exciting, hands-on career where your skills truly make a difference, the LCRA System P&C (SCADA) group is seeking a motivated individual to join our expert team. In this role, you will travel to various substations across our territory to install, commission, maintain, and repair critical SCADA monitoring and control equipment. You will provide technical support to systems operations, engineering groups, and customers to help implement SCADA systems while building your own expertise through structured assignments and guidance from experienced colleagues. This full-time position offers the opportunity for professional growth and involves some overnight travel, with the possibility of overtime and weekend call-outs. We welcome candidates of all experience levels to apply and help us keep our power systems running reliably.
How You’ll Contribute
- Assists experienced technicians with projects involving LCRA System Operations, Generation, LCRA Relay and Control Engineering, LCRA Telecommunications, LCRA Network Services and ERCOT.
- Assists experienced technicians with complex maintenance, installation, commissioning, and integration tasks on equipment, including but not limited to Remote Terminal Units (RTU), Data Concentrators, Revenue Meters, Protective Relays, Windows based computers, Human Machine Interfaces, GPS Satellite Clocks, Digital Fault Recorders, and other related equipment and peripherals.
- Assists experienced technicians with maintenance and installation tasks on network related equipment, including but not limited to routers, switches, network interface cards and serial to IP transceivers.
- Assists experienced technicians integrate and test Remote Terminal Units, Protective Relay devices, Revenue Meters and HMIs into Transmission Services SubWAN for remote access/configuration capabilities and D2F (Distance to Fault) functionality.
- Assists with the maintenance of documentation in accordance with ERCOT protocols.
- Three or more years of experience in the construction and/or maintenance of power substation protection, SCADA, diagnostic, metering, monitoring and/or control systems, or relevant experience.
- A degree(s) in electrical power theory, electronics, instrumentation, controls, computer science or relevant field may be substituted per LCRA guidelines for certain years of experience.
- Driver's license
- Knowledge of substation equipment.
- Knowledge of electrical control, metering and protective relaying schemes.
- Knowledge of Remote Terminal Units, Revenue Meters and Protective Relays.
- Knowledge of network/LAN operations.
- Knowledge of alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) electricity fundamentals.
- Knowledge of communications protocols (ex: Harris, Modbus, SEL and DNP 3.0).
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Equal Opportunity Employer
- LCRA provides equal employment opportunities and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at LCRA are based on business need, job requirement and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal and state legal requirements governing nondiscrimination in employment.
- LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact LCRA Human Resources (512) 578-4004 or email lcra.benefits@lcra.org. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.