Microgrid Controls Engineer

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🏄 California, Colorado, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $145k - $181.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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The AES Corporation

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1981

⚡ Energy

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-05

Energy • Sustainability • Renewable Energy

The AES Corporation is a global energy company with over four decades of experience in helping the world transition to clean, renewable energy. The company delivers innovative energy solutions that focus on sustainability, including energy storage, efficiency, and carbon-free electricity generation. AES partners with businesses to unlock their strategic energy potential and contribute to a greener future, while being deeply rooted in local cultures and communities where they operate.

📋 Description

• Design and implement microgrid control solutions integrating natural-gas generators, CCGT or SCGT assets, BESS, solar PV, utility service, switchgear, and site loads • Develop, modify, test, and deploy software for automation controllers, PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, and data concentrators • Develop control philosophies, sequences of operation, functional descriptions, state diagrams, alarm strategies, operating modes, and test procedures • Program controls using ladder logic, structured text, function block diagrams, and CODESYS-compatible environments • Implement grid-connected operation, islanding, resynchronization, load shedding, generator dispatch, BESS charge and discharge, black start, and transition management • Review specifications and translate requirements into executable control designs • Select control-system components and prepare bills of materials, technical specifications, and project submittals • Provide sketches, markups, I/O requirements, network architecture, and technical direction to electrical designers and engineering partners • Review equipment submittals and coordinate control and communications interfaces • Configure and integrate industrial communications using Modbus, DNP3, and IEC 61850 • Coordinate protection relays, power monitoring systems, automation controllers, SCADA, HMIs, plant controls, and industrial networks • Participate in design reviews and customer meetings • Prepare and execute factory acceptance testing, integrated system testing, site acceptance testing, field startup, and commissioning procedures • Troubleshoot software, communications, controls, network, protection, and equipment-integration issues • Coordinate with project, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, OEM, and external vendor teams • Maintain software configuration, backups, source files, test records, redlines, as-built documentation, and turnover materials

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, controls engineering, computer engineering, or a related field • Typically 4 to 8 years of experience in power-distribution controls, industrial automation, microgrids, SCADA, power-system control applications, or a related field • Understanding of electric power systems, microgrid operations, distributed energy resources, natural-gas generators, BESS, and solar PV • Experience programming automation controllers or PLCs using ladder logic, structured text, function block diagrams, or CODESYS is preferred • Knowledge of low- and medium-voltage switchgear, protection relays, power monitoring, control systems, and electrical distribution equipment • Knowledge of industrial communications protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, and IEC 61850 • Experience with HMIs, SCADA platforms, industrial networks, data concentrators, and multifunction protection-relay controls • Experience with Ignition Perspective or comparable HMI and SCADA platforms is preferred • Experience preparing sequences of operation, control drawings, submittals, test procedures, and bills of materials • Field experience with electrical distribution systems, factory testing, startup, commissioning, troubleshooting, and electrical safe-work practices • Ability to communicate technical topics clearly to internal teams, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders • Professional Engineer licensure is preferred • E-Verify work authorization verification through the employee’s I-9

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Life insurance • 401(k) eligibility • Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave time, and parental leave