Plant Controller, Project Lead

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $175k - $225k / year

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Direct engineering design of a plant controller and plant-wide SCADA program for a behind-the-meter hybrid energy facility in the ERCOT market • Serve as technical owner of the plant control and SCADA design from requirements and concept of operations through detailed design, testing, commissioning, and closeout • Direct multidisciplinary controls, SCADA/HMI, OT networking and cybersecurity, and power systems studies engineering leads and specialty subcontractors • Integrate engineering work into a coordinated design and serve as lead technical voice to the EPC client, equipment vendors, utilities, and owner’s engineers • Develop requirements, use cases, control narratives, and control algorithms for voltage/reactive power regulation, frequency response, POI and equipment limit control, and load coordination • Apply power system modeling and study results to define control limits, operating envelopes, and equipment sizing • Develop and manage interface specifications with third-party controllers, OEMs, utilities, and stakeholders; resolve technical conflicts • Ensure design supports grid operator interconnection requirements and applicable NERC standards • Lead technical quality reviews of studies, drawings, specifications, points lists, network designs, and test plans • Partner with the Project Manager on engineering budget, schedule, staffing, estimates to complete, scope changes, and change orders • Define hardware and software requirements and review bills of material for control and network equipment • Lead technical responses to RFIs and submittals during construction • Plan and lead factory acceptance and hardware-in-the-loop testing; author commissioning test plans • Serve as technical lead during site commissioning and compliance testing • Represent Leidos in technical design reviews and coordination meetings • Ensure cybersecurity and critical infrastructure information handling requirements are followed • Mentor project engineers and support operator training and knowledge transfer at turnover • Coordinate plant controls to regulate voltage, frequency, apparent power, POI limits, renewable dispatch, and data center load • Report key performance indicators through SCADA, HMI, and historian systems • Design a secure, NERC CIP-ready architecture supporting future battery storage and natural gas generation integration

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; Controls, Computer, or Power Systems Engineering may be considered • Minimum of eight (8) years of engineering experience in the electric power industry • At least four (4) years leading multidisciplinary design teams • Technical leadership of utility-scale power plant controller, SCADA, or substation automation projects from design through commissioning • Hands-on experience with voltage/VAR regulation, primary frequency response, curtailment, and POI limit control for inverter-based resources • Working knowledge of ERCOT interconnection requirements and applicable NERC standards, including PRC-024/029, MOD-025/026/027, and CIP • Experience with PPC, OEM, and utility equipment interfaces and communication protocols including DNP3, Modbus, IEEE C37.118, and IEC 61850 • Ability to interpret power system study results and apply them to control design and operating limits • Experience with design review processes and quality control of engineering deliverables • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical positions to clients and vendors • Experience with MS Office Software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) • Ability to meet client background screening and site access requirements • Periodic travel to Texas is required; availability to travel as needed • Preferred: Professional Engineer (PE) license, or ability to obtain one; Texas licensure a plus • Preferred: Experience with hybrid plants, co-located large loads, or data center interconnections, including behind-the-meter configurations • Preferred: SEL RTAC/SEL-3555 programming and Ignition SCADA, HMI, and historian development • Preferred: Vestas, TMEIC, or similar wind and solar power plant controller integration • Preferred: PSS/E, PSCAD, ETAP, OPAL-RT, or RTDS experience • Preferred: OT cybersecurity design, including NERC CIP, IEC 62443, next-generation firewalls, jump host architectures, and network segmentation • Preferred: ERCOT resource commissioning, QSE telemetry, or market qualification testing • Preferred: Future BESS or gas generation integration in plant control architectures • Preferred: EPC or design-build project experience and construction operations support • Preferred: MS Project, P6, Procore, and engineering budget tracking • Preferred: Organizational, multitasking, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours/work arrangements • Professional Engineer (PE) licensure and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification support • Formal Mentorship programs • Learning & Development Resources • Continuing Education Programs • Technical leadership tracks and project management opportunities • Career development and growth opportunities