Senior Electrical Engineer – Microgrid Controls, Automation Architecture

🔥 12 hours ago

🌵 Arizona, Tennessee, +1 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $154.2k - $223.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ameresco

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

⚡ Energy

🏛️ Government

Energy • Utilities • Government

Ameresco is a leading comprehensive cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner, and operator. It is involved in implementing energy efficiency measures and infrastructure upgrades while constructing and operating distributed energy resources. The company partners with various sectors including federal, state, and local governments, utilities, healthcare, educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial clients to provide sustainable energy solutions. With operations in the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, Ameresco focuses on advancing the clean energy transition with its array of smart, energy-efficient technologies and financial solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead development and integration of control systems for utility-scale generation, distributed energy resources, battery energy storage systems, renewable assets, and mission-critical data center microgrids • Define hierarchy and interfaces among plant distributed control systems, microgrid controllers, energy management systems, generator controls, protection systems, utility interconnections, and supervisory SCADA platforms • Develop integrated controls and automation architectures for microgrids, distributed generation plants, and behind-the-meter power systems • Define interfaces among plant DCS, microgrid controllers, EMS, SCADA, generator controls, BESS controls, protection relays, and utility systems • Prepare control philosophies, functional specifications, sequence-of-operations documents, cause-and-effect matrices, and communications architecture diagrams • Develop operating strategies for islanding, synchronization and resynchronization, black start, load following, generation dispatch, reserve management, voltage and frequency control, and fast load shedding • Lead multi-vendor controls integration and coordinate technical requirements with generation OEMs, BESS suppliers, microgrid controller vendors, protection engineers, utilities, EPC teams, and customers • Review vendor submittals and support factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, performance testing, and operational troubleshooting • Incorporate secure control system architecture and applicable cybersecurity requirements, including ISA/IEC 62443 and NERC CIP where applicable • Support power system studies and align control strategies with protection, short-circuit, dynamic stability, grounding, and utility interconnection requirements • Perform other duties as required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline • At least 8 years of experience in power generation, utilities, industrial automation, microgrids, or distributed energy systems, including significant plant-level controls integration experience • Demonstrated experience developing or integrating microgrid controls architecture for grid-connected and islanded systems • Ability to review confidential US security information • Strong working knowledge of DCS, SCADA, PLC, EMS, microgrid controllers, generator controls, synchronizing systems, protective relay integration, and power management systems • Experience with IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus TCP/IP, OPC UA, and Ethernet/IP • Ability to produce and review technical specifications, control narratives, logic diagrams, network architectures, and commissioning procedures • Experience with utility-scale or data center microgrids and hybrid plants integrating RICE, gas turbines, fuel cells, renewable generation, and BESS • Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, real-time simulation, dynamic modeling, or controls validation • Knowledge of IEEE, UL, NFPA, utility interconnection, and mission-critical resiliency requirements • Professional Engineer licensure or the ability to obtain licensure • Systems thinking across generation, storage, utility, protection, controls, and customer load systems • Effective technical communication with engineers, project managers, executives, and customers • Ability to align multidisciplinary teams, OEMs, vendors, utilities, and field personnel • Ability to drive complex technical issues to resolution while maintaining safety, reliability, cybersecurity, schedule, and commercial awareness • Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining technical rigor • Ability to mentor junior staff and contribute to reusable standards and lessons learned • Ability to lead technical workshops, design reviews, risk discussions, and executive-level presentations

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Performance incentives • Bonuses • Commissions • Equity • Comprehensive and competitive employee benefits • People-oriented insurance, investment, and incentive plans