SCADA Engineer

BlueWave Resource Partners is seeking a SCADA Engineer to help support the rollout and day-to-day operations of a new centralized SCADA/GMS platform for renewable generation, battery storage, and substations. The role is focused on configuring, integrating, testing, deploying, and maintaining systems that enable reliable real-time operations and control data exchange across site and centralized environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Phase 2 of the rollout and ongoing operations of the centralized SCADA/GMS platform.
• Configure, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain SCADA/GMS systems for renewable generation, battery storage, and substations.
• Manage SCADA/GMS database configurations, including equipment models, telemetry points, alarms, calculations, communications, and operator displays.
• Support generation-control data exchanges by validating setpoints and communications between external interfaces, the centralized SCADA/GMS platform, and site systems.
• Troubleshoot real-time operational issues such as failed ICCP links, missing generation setpoints, incorrect telemetry, and communication failures.
• Own technical support cases from initial customer contact through investigation, resolution, testing, and follow-up.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including control-room, generation operations, and market-facing groups, to understand issues, share progress, and confirm operational acceptance.
• Coordinate with engineers, site personnel, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors, and system integrators to resolve dependencies and drive issues to closure.
• Develop and execute integration tests to validate communications, controls, alarms, data quality, and system functionality.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration standards, change controls, and compliance with applicable NERC requirements.
• Provide technical leadership by recommending best practices and supporting the establishment of reliable operational processes for the team.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SCADA/GMS/EMS engineering supporting utility or power-generation operations.
• Experience with centralized control systems and Hitachi Energy, GE, or comparable platforms.
• Strong skills in database configuration, telemetry, integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
• 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 independently resolve issues, coordinate stakeholders, and follow through to verified closure.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.

Technologies

• Hitachi Energy
• GE
• ICCP/TASE.2
• DNP3
• Modbus
• IEC 61850
• NERC CIP

Preferred Qualifications

• Hitachi Energy Network Manager expertise.
• AGC, historian, and IEC 61850 experience.
• Centralized renewable, battery storage, or conventional generation experience.
• SCADA migrations, implementations, and site onboarding.
• NERC CIP and utility cybersecurity knowledge.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Location: West Palm Beach, FL (onsite). Pay: $60.00 - $80.00 per hour. Minimum Experience: 5 years.