BlueWave is hiring a Senior SCADA/GMS Engineer for an energy client based in South Florida. As a Senior SCADA/GMS Engineer, you will configure, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain centralized control systems supporting power-generation operations. You will also troubleshoot real-time operational issues, manage system data, and provide technical leadership across engineering and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Configure, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain SCADA/GMS systems
- Manage database configurations, including equipment models, telemetry points, alarms, calculations, communications, and operator displays
- Validate generation setpoints and communications between external interfaces, centralized control systems, and site systems
- Troubleshoot failed data links, missing setpoints, incorrect telemetry, and communication failures
- Manage technical issues through investigation, resolution, testing, and follow-up
- Partner with control-room, generation-operations, and market-facing teams to address operational needs
- Coordinate with engineers, site personnel, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors, and system integrators
- Develop and execute integration tests for communications, controls, alarms, data quality, and system functionality
- Maintain system documentation, configuration standards, change controls, and applicable regulatory compliance
- Recommend best practices and help establish reliable operational processes
Requirements
- Five or more years of hands-on SCADA, GMS, or EMS engineering experience in utility or power-generation environments
- Experience with centralized control systems and major SCADA/GMS platforms
- Strong database configuration, telemetry, integration, testing, and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of ICCP/TASE.2 and experience with DNP3, Modbus, or related protocols
- Understanding of generation setpoints, power-plant operations, and ISO/RTO interfaces
- Ability to resolve issues independently, coordinate stakeholders, and verify successful closure
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills
- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, controls engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
- Ability to work onsite five days per week
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced experience with centralized SCADA/GMS platforms
- Experience with automatic generation control, historians, or IEC 61850
- Experience supporting renewable generation, battery storage, or conventional generation
- Experience with SCADA migrations, implementations, or site onboarding
- Knowledge of NERC CIP requirements and utility cybersecurity practices
Employment Type: 12-month contract-to-hire position with a 40-hour workweek, onsite five days per week in South Florida
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