TITLE: Associate Engineer - Energy Control System

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LOCATION: NY - Binghamton , NY- Rochester

Work-Type : OFFICE

SALARY RANGE: The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location ranging from $65,000 to $80,673

Job Summary

• Provides support for the AVANGRID Energy Control Systems used to operate electric transmission and distribution systems (EMS/SCADA/ADMS/OMS & Back office-based platforms).

• Maintains supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) databases, maintains telemetry data and evaluates and maintains accurate information in the Control System under supervision.

• Support the specification, design, testing and development of the EMS system to ensure that changing functional requirements are met

• Monitors and ensures that systems and components are designed, installed, tested, operated and maintained according to operational requirements and standards for safety and reliability

• Provides operational assistance and troubleshooting

• Analyzes key power system data to ensure that the bulk electric system can operate in a safe, reliable and coordinated manner in accordance with ISO/RTO operating principles and standards.

• Works within the Control Center environment and supports Cyber Security requirements for Control Center operations.

• Supports NERC/CIP Compliance Program

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to interpret engineering documentation:

  • Control System Architecture drawings, P&IDs, electric control/loop diagrams and other engineering specifications.

  • Understanding Networking, security, computer hardware, software applications and data communication equipment.

• Network diagrams, firewall rules, ports and services

• Familiar with energy control system environments.

• Capable of troubleshooting and identifying moderately complex system issues.

• Able to perform simple DB update functions and Queries

• The ability to demonstrate good communication skills both written and orally.

• Familiar with RTU Components such as CPU backplane, power supplies, and IO modules.

• Working in storm or other emergency conditions for 24x7x365 system support

• Able to work under supervision and contribute proactively to drive results

• Background in Gas Measurement fundamentals.

• Basic computer language programming knowledge

Required Qualifications

• Education & Experience Required (Meet at least one of the following):

  • 0-2+ years of technically related experience

  • Applied Science degree (Engineering preferred) with 2+ years of experience

  • BS Degree

• Skills and Requirements

  • Theoretical Engineering knowledge - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Analytic, modeling & Calculation, understanding the business model; Global View of the Business (Values cross-functional collaboration, understands importance of growing knowledge and developing relationships and links across the organization)

  • Practical engineering experience/application - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Construction, (e.g., field experience, standardization "Perform economic analyses of engineering alternatives, develop business cases and defend in front of stakeholders.")

  • Engineering documentation # Ability to adequately document and interpret engineering documentation

  • Ability to review and approve engineering work done by others to ensure compliance with company standards, specifications, and contract requirements

  • Knowledge of Regulatory and Compliance Environment # Local, State and Federal Regulatory Standards and requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Computer Operating System Administration and Support (EX: Linux, Windows)

• ECS NERC-CIP Compliance Support (EX: CIP-005, 007, 009, 010, 011)

• ECS Support for Multiple Environments (Databases EX: AQL, SQL, Oracle; ECS Specific Applications EX: ABB Network Manager, GE X21, Siemens Spectrum, AVEVA OASyS DNA; Specialty Control System Applications EX; Access Administration EX: LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory; Protocols EX: ICCP, DNP, RS422, TCP/IP, Modbus; Environment Navigation EX: RDP, PuTTy, FTP, VNC; Specialty Calculation Programming EX: Matlab, ABB Calc)

• Substation and Field Engineering and Support (Programming of RTUs/ Data Concentrators in the Substation or at Customer facilities EX: NTU Explorer, SMP, SMP Manager; Programming of Human to Machine Interfaces EX: Wonderware)

• Operations Support (EX: 24x7x365 support of ECS)

• Technical Documentation (EX: Operational Procedures Maintenance for ISO and TO) ECS Historian Applications Support (EX: UDW PI Interface for multiple environments, Application Server PI Interface, ORA-DB) Computer language programing (EX: Java, C, .Net, Perl, Python, VBscript, Java Script, KSH, BSH, SqlPlus, HTA, HTML)

• Gas SCADA RTU configuration. Fisher ROC & FloBoss preferred.

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement

• Initiative & Change

• Focused on Results

• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

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