Senior Project Manager/Engineer, SCADA
Westinghouse Electric Company
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Location: Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $70 - $76 per hour
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Cyber SecurityFirewalls
About the role
- Supervision of SCADA software development, SCADA commissioning, SCADA hardware start-up to control renewable photovoltaic and battery storage power plants.
- This position is responsible for the overall management of the team and assigned projects, to ensure compliance within required budgetary, scheduling, and safety goals.
- Coordinate and manage construction work performed by contractors and/or vendors at the project site.
- Manage the engineering, procurement and construction oversight-activities necessary to develop, license/permit, erect, start-up, and commence commercial operations.
- Responsible for integration, programming, commissioning, and testing of power plant SCADA systems and RTU.
- Working with project requirements and specifications to integrate renewable power plants in SCADA to controls power generation onto the utility grid.
- Works collaboratively with resources in various disciplines to determine project priorities and work plans.
- Meets corporate objectives with limited project management, scheduling and estimating resources.
- Manages department resources to provide effective early-stage project development support.
- Ensure projects are efficiently, effectively and safely implemented in accordance with department procedures and policies.
- Manages walk down of planned work, validates acceptance of completed work to design requirements, approves contractor payment requests.
- Verifies constructability, ensures proper resource allocations, assesses field status and resolves issues as needed.
- Leads project meetings and reviews budget, risk tracker, and contingency allocations.
- Interfaces with project's designated management committees or acts as Executive Director of project activities.
- Supervises activities and/or coordinates activities or groups, such as safety programs, engineering, construction, budget, and analysis and contract administration.
- Oversee commissioning activities to meet corporate objectives, with limited project management, scheduling and estimating resources.
- Plans and schedules work and vendors to achieve portfolio deliverables.
- Design, integrate, program, commission and test power plant controller and SCADA for Photovoltaic and Energy Store System
- Reviews and comments on SCADA engineering design.
- Reporting daily, weekly, and monthly on progress to management.
Requirements
- Bachelor or Equivalent degree in Engineering or Automation System with experience or related education with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).
- Experience or related education in programming and commissioning of SCADA.
- Experience managing commission of SCADA equipment.
- Knowledge of process control commissioning and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of AC and DC circuits and troubleshooting ability.
- Ability to understand electrical schematics and drawings.
- Review drawings packages and OEM specifications versus installed equipment to confirm it meets design and manufacturer standards.
- Ability to understand SCADA and communication schematics and drawings.
- 0-10 volt and 4-20 mA loop knowledge and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of Programmable Logic controllers, RTU, meters, networking equipment, fiber optic equipment, and others.
- Knowledge of Ignition, OPC Serves and SCADA historian.
- Knowledge of automation protocols (Modbus, DNP3, CAN, OPC, EtherNet/IP and others)
- Knowledge managed switches, Hirschman’s, MOXA, Cisco and others.
- Knowledge of Networking, Cyber Security and Firewalls.
- Knowledge of renewable SCADA and control systems.
- Project Management experience handling multiple consultants, vendors and EPCs.
- Third party firm management
- Schedule and planning understanding
- Strong analytical skills, problem-solving