Employment Type: Full-Time
FSLA: Salary/Exempt
Division: Arch Energy
Department: Arch Energy
Reports to:
Supervisory Duties: Yes
The Energy Storage Applications & SCADA Lead provides technical leadership for the controls, integration, and communications systems that enable utility-scale energy storage facilities to operate as a single coordinated system. This role is responsible for managing interfaces between battery storage systems, plant controls, SCADA, substations, communications networks, and utility requirements throughout design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
Responsibilities / Essential Functions
- Lead system integration activities across BESS, BMS, PCS, EMS, plant controls, SCADA, substations, metering, communications, cybersecurity, and utility interfaces.
- Develop responsibility matrices, interface documents, points lists, network boundaries, and sequence-of-operations requirements.
- Review controls narratives, network architecture, panel layouts, I/O lists, alarm strategies, communications pathways, redundancy requirements, and system designs.
- Coordinate with OEMs, system integrators, utilities, engineers, commissioning teams, and project stakeholders.
- Support implementation and testing of communication protocols including DNP3, Modbus TCP, OPC UA, ICCP, and related systems.
- Validate active and reactive power controls, charge and discharge functionality, voltage and frequency response, ramp rates, curtailment, and operating modes.
- Support preconstruction activities, including technical reviews, RFP development, bid evaluations, scope clarification, and contract requirements.
- Develop standard architectures, specifications, templates, testing procedures, and best practices for repeatable project delivery.
- Plan and support FATs, SATs, point-to-point testing, network validation, software testing, and integrated system testing.
- Support commissioning, energization, troubleshooting, performance testing, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate cybersecurity requirements, remote access, firewalls, backups, system recovery, and network reliability.
- Lead technical punch-list activities and verify final software, documentation, training materials, testing records, and turnover deliverables.
Key Skills
- Utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS)
- SCADA and plant control systems
- Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Battery Management Systems (BMS)
- Power Conversion Systems (PCS)
- Utility communications and telemetry systems
- Network architecture and industrial controls
- DNP3, Modbus, OPC UA, and related protocols
- Controls integration and system testing
- Commissioning and troubleshooting
- Cybersecurity and network reliability
- Technical documentation and interface management
- Strong communication and leadership skills
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 8+ years of experience in BESS, power plant controls, SCADA, industrial controls, utility automation, or grid-connected energy systems.
- Experience integrating BMS, PCS, EMS, plant controllers, SCADA, RTACs, protection systems, metering, communications, and remote monitoring platforms.
- Working knowledge of SEL RTACs or similar platforms, PLCs, HMIs, historians, managed networks, firewalls, time synchronization systems, and utility communications protocols.
- Experience reviewing controls narratives, network drawings, I/O lists, alarm matrices, interface documents, test procedures, and vendor submittals.
- Hands-on FAT, SAT, commissioning, troubleshooting, and integrated-system testing experience.
- Knowledge of utility interconnection requirements, plant controls, telemetry, performance testing, and grid-support functions.
- Experience translating EPC requirements, OEM obligations, and utility standards into technical scopes, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate utilities, owners, OEMs, integrators, engineering teams, and commissioning providers.
- Ability to travel to project sites, OEM facilities, and testing locations as needed.