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Job Description: Power Plant Engineer
Location: Palm Beach Gardens / Jupiter West, Florida
Duration: 6 Months
Domain: Power Generation / Utilities / Energy
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Power Plant Engineer with a strong background in power generation, utilities, and industrial operational technology (OT) environments. The ideal candidate will support site assessments, current-state architecture documentation, gap analysis, and migration planning for power generation facilities and related infrastructure.
The role requires collaboration with plant operations, engineering, maintenance, IT/OT, cybersecurity, SCADA, and Energy Management Systems (EMS) teams to assess existing environments, identify technical dependencies and operational risks, and develop migration strategies aligned with regulatory, security, and business requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct on-site assessments of power generation facilities, substations, and supporting infrastructure.
- Collaborate with plant stakeholders, operations teams, maintenance personnel, engineering groups, and IT/OT teams to gather technical and migration requirements.
- Document current-state architecture, including operational systems, network infrastructure, control systems, applications, and system dependencies.
- Assess plant-specific engineering requirements, operational constraints, regulatory standards, and compliance considerations affecting migration activities.
- Perform gap analysis between current-state and target-state environments.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, challenges, cybersecurity concerns, and potential operational impacts associated with site migration activities.
- Develop migration strategies, implementation plans, technical requirements, and supporting documentation.
- 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.
- Recommend migration schedules and execution strategies that minimize downtime, operational risk, and business disruption.
- Assist project leadership with effort estimation, resource planning, migration readiness assessments, and implementation planning.
- Ensure alignment with applicable NERC-CIP requirements, industry regulations, cybersecurity standards, and organizational security policies.
- Support cloud migration, application modernization, and enterprise system integration initiatives involving power generation environments.
Required Technical Skills and Experience
- Experience in the utility, energy, power generation, transmission, distribution, or renewable energy sectors.
- Knowledge of NERC-CIP compliance, industry regulatory standards, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Familiarity with cloud migration, application modernization, and enterprise system integration projects.
- Understanding of power generation technologies, including:
- Gas-fired power plants
- Nuclear power plants
- Solar energy facilities
- Wind energy facilities
- Combined-cycle power plants
- Knowledge of plant operations, engineering infrastructure, industrial control systems, and operational technology (OT) environments.
- Familiarity with SCADA systems, Energy Management Systems (EMS), network infrastructure, and industrial control systems.
- Ability to assess existing technical environments, document system dependencies, conduct gap analysis, and support migration planning.
- Experience preparing technical documentation, assessment reports, architecture diagrams, and migration plans.
- Understanding of the integration points between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems.
Professional and Managerial Skills
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work during US Eastern business hours, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST/ET.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes and evaluate complex technical issues.
- Proactive in identifying risks, gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Ability to serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to project teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to align technology platform capabilities with organizational security, compliance, and operational objectives.
- Effective collaboration with vendors, external partners, engineering teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence, and risk mitigation.
Key Skills Summary
- Power Plant Engineering
- Power Generation and Utilities
- Transmission and Distribution
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Gas, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, and Combined-Cycle Power Plants
- NERC-CIP Compliance and Regulatory Standards
- Cybersecurity and Operational Technology (OT)
- IT/OT Infrastructure and Integration
- SCADA and Energy Management Systems (EMS)
- Cloud Migration and Application Modernization
- Enterprise System Integration
- Current-State and Target-State Architecture
- Technical Assessment and Gap Analysis
- Risk Assessment and Dependency Mapping
- Migration Strategy and Implementation Planning
- Migration Readiness and Resource Estimation
- Stakeholder Management and Technical Documentation