Microgrid Controls Engineer

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AES is the only seven-time winner of the Edison Electric Institute’s Edison Awards in the twenty-first century, a distinction honoring global leadership in advancing the electric power industry. If you're ready to be part of a company that's not just adapting to change, but driving it, AES is the place for you. We're not just building a more sustainable future, we're powering it.

Apply now and energize your career with a true leader in global energy. AES US Renewables & Power is seeking a Microgrid Controls Engineer to design, develop, test, implement, and commission microgrid control solutions integrating natural-gas generation, battery energy storage systems, solar generation, utility interconnections, and site electrical loads. The role delivers safe and reliable automation, HMI, SCADA, protection, communications, and control-system solutions from design through field startup and turnover.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement microgrid control solutions integrating natural-gas generators, CCGT or SCGT assets where applicable, BESS, solar PV, utility service, switch gear, and site loads.
• Develop, modify, test, and deploy software for automation controllers, programmable logic controllers, human-machine interfaces, SCADA systems, and data concentrators.
• Develop control philosophies, sequences of operation, functional descriptions, state diagrams, alarm strategies, operating modes, and test procedures.
• Program controls using appropriate methods such as ladder logic, structured text, function block diagrams, and CODESYS-compatible environments.
• Implement operating modes such as grid-connected operation, islanding, resynchronization, load shedding, generator dispatch, BESS charge and discharge, black start, and transition management.
• Review customer, project, utility, engineering, and equipment-vendor specifications and translate requirements into executable control designs.
• Select control-system components and prepare bills of materials, technical specifications, and project submittals.
• Provide sketches, markups, I/O requirements, network architecture, and technical direction to electrical designers and engineering partners.
• Review distributed energy resource, generator, BESS, switch gear, relay, and equipment-vendor submittals and coordinate control and communications interfaces.
• Configure and integrate industrial communications using protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, and IEC 61850.
• Coordinate multifunction protection relays, power monitoring systems, automation controllers, SCADA, HMIs, plant controls, and industrial networks.
• Participate in design reviews and customer meetings to confirm project requirements, resolve interfaces, and review submittals.
• Prepare and execute factory acceptance testing, integrated system testing, site acceptance testing, field startup, and commissioning procedures.
• Troubleshoot software, communications, controls, network,…