Job Details

EDF Trading North America, LLC is a major participant in wholesale energy markets and delivers customized energy solutions for our customers.

We operate in every market and provide coast to coast coverage of financial and physical products in power, natural gas and NGLs, environmental products and financial crude oil products. We provide our customers with products and services that deliver access to markets, optimize their energy portfolio, hedge risk and manage assets. Our Wholesale Business operates throughout the value chain in the North American wholesale power markets and we are one of the leading wholesale natural gas marketers. Additionally, we provide environmental, congestion management and value added derivative products. With extensive pipeline agreements, we can manage natural gas offtakes, deliveries, capacities and supply anywhere across the continent.

EDF Trading North America, LLC is part of the EDF Group, a global leader in low-carbon energies.

Job Description:

The Principal SCADA Engineer is responsible for supporting the multi-site, high availability Generation Management System in the power markets. The candidate will ultimately assist in support and troubleshooting of the operational SCADA environment as well as ensuring optimized monitoring and reporting for solid system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Perform project management and setup on all generation and load resource on-boardings of EMA customers.
• Develop, deploy, modify, and troubleshoot OSI-Monarch SCADA systems (PDS, QAS, PROD)
• Provide support for programming and troubleshooting of RTU/RTAC.
• Designs, installs, optimizes, supports and troubleshoots all aspects of the overall system, insuring solid reliability between GMS system and external energy markets and all internal and external customers.
• Build custom SCADA displays for internal staff and external customers to provide real-time and scheduling information, KPIs, one lines, historical trends, and improved situational awareness.
• Ensure current and future business and technical requirements are accessed for all energy markets. This includes ERCOT, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, CAISO, SPP, WECC, Northwestern BA, Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), NERC CIP standards, etc.
• Train and mentor new SCADA engineers, developers, asset managers, energy controllers, traders, origination, executives and external customers on system and market knowledge.
• Technologies/Applications in Scope:
  • OSI Monarch Suite and interfaces
  • OSISoft Pi Historian and interfaces
  • C Programming
  • MODBUS / DNP3 / ICCP / PI to PI
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 & SQL Server 2014
  • Plant communications and connectivity (MODBUS/DNP/ICCP/Pi to Pi Connections)

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related
• 10+ years of verifiable experience in supporting SCADA systems
• 5+ years experience in supporting OSI-Monarch SCADA systems
• Understanding of NERC CIP security principals
• Experience with supporting a Microsoft based server infrastructure; Microsoft SQL experience a plus
• Programming knowledge with C, C++, C# or Python
• Understanding of WAN and VPN concepts
• Able to provide on rotation, after hours (24 x 7) on-call support
• Understanding of energy markets, including ERCOT, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, CAISO, SPP, WECC, Northwestern BA, Texas Reliability Entity (TRE)
• Knowledge of NERC CIP standards preferred

Note: EDF is an EEO employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for all positions without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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