openai - Controls Engineer: Power Generation
Requirements
• 8+ years of controls, automation, or instrumentation engineering experience in power generation, industrial plants, utilities, or mission-critical infrastructure. • Strong experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA, historian, industrial-networking, and control-system integration. • Knowledge of generation controls, synchronization, load sharing, protective interfaces, process control, and safety interlocks. • Experience developing functional specifications, sequences, I/O, alarms, graphics, and factory or site test procedures. • Ability to troubleshoot across software, instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, communications, and operating-process boundaries. • Understanding of industrial cybersecurity, redundancy, failover, and change-control practices. • Bachelor's degree in controls, electrical, mechanical, chemical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field. • Experience with major turbine or reciprocating-engine control platforms and microgrid controllers. • Experience with IEC 61850, Modbus, OPC UA, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, or comparable industrial protocols. • Experience integrating generation controls with BMS, EPMS, DCIM, or utility systems. • Professional Engineer license, functional-safety training, or industrial-cybersecurity certification.
Responsibilities
• Define control-system architecture, functional design specifications, sequences of operation, cause-and-effect matrices, alarm philosophy, and interface requirements. • Integrate OEM controls, PLCs, DCS, SCADA, historian, microgrid controllers, protection systems, and data center BMS or EPMS platforms. • Develop and review I/O lists, network architecture, control narratives, graphics, alarm limits, interlocks, permissives, and fail-safe behavior. • Coordinate synchronization, load sharing, islanding, black start, load shedding, restoration, and generation-to-data-center operating modes. • Evaluate cybersecurity, redundancy, time synchronization, communications protocols, data quality, and remote-support requirements. • Lead or support software reviews, simulator testing, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, and tuning. • Troubleshoot control-system and plant-performance issues and convert findings into corrective actions and reusable standards. • Partner with electrical, mechanical, CSA, IT, security, operations, OEM, EPC, and data center controls teams.
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