Control Systems Engineer III - IV; EAS Focus

Closing Date to Apply: Open Until Filled

Number of Positions: 1

Salary:
Engineer III: $91,811.20 - $
Engineer IV: $ - $
Typically, selected candidates are hired at a salary rate between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

Benefits: Grant PUD – Unified Insurance Program (uip-wa.org).

Be part of the Control Systems Engineering team responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining the control systems that support Grant County PUD’s operation. This role will primarily focus on supporting our Energy Accounting Systems (EAS), custom application & interface software and databases. The control systems department is also responsible for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), energy management (EMS), GMS, data historian, and other supporting applications.

The infrastructure includes firewalls, switches, servers, storage arrays, workstations, and all tools required to manage and secure the environment.

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. This is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents of this class; employees may be assigned duties which are not listed below; reasonable accommodations will be made as required. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change at any time by the employer.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Maintain, configure, and repair the Utilities’ Energy Accounting and Water Accounting systems. Maintain and customize user interfaces used by operations improving functionality, accuracy, and user interface optimization. Update system layouts, visualizations, and fields providing users with clear, consistent, and complete information.
• Work with regional utility companies and marketers in supporting of EIDE communications.
• Support internal and external inquiries and requests with EAS data.
• Develop relationships critical to successful partnerships with internal and external partners.
• Respond to and resolve user‑reported data issues in a timely manner, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute updates, patches, and upgrades for locally hosted energy accounting applications and systems while minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity.
• Develop an understanding of the relationship between operational data with the hourly accounting systems.
• Perform configuration and support for OATI’s Web Smart Tagging , Web Scheduler, Web Trader, WebSmart
  
  OASIS, Web Trans and WIT.
• Become familiar with the source applications for energy accounting including, EMS, Data Historian, Third‑party data exchanges and our OATI applications and interfaces.
• Become familiar with the applications supported by GMS, EMS or the Infrastructure/Cyber Security team members.
• Work directly with other team members to learn how to diagnose and resolve communications and data issues related to application communication, telemetry and infrastructure. This includes capturing and/or analyzing network traffic with Wireshark and other similar tools.
• Learn to collect, store, and report on data required to prove Grant PUD is meeting relevant regulatory requirements; complete Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and other compliance reporting requirements including documenting system failovers, generating change control documentation, assisting with patch management, upgrading system firmware, and testing configuration changes for security risks; run SQL queries providing evidence of compliance.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including troubleshooting guides, standard operating procedures, and best practices.

• Oversee, direct, maintain, configure, and repair the Utilities’ Energy Accounting and Water Accounting systems. Maintain and customize user interfaces used by operations to improve functionality, accuracy, and user interface optimization. Update system layouts, visualizations, and fields providing users with clear, consistent, and complete…