Automation & Controls Manager

ERock is a leader and innovator in distributed energy. ERock has responded to long-term trends in electricity by becoming the first smart-grid supplier to US energy consumers. The company installs, operates, and integrates its highly flexible, low-cost, and quick-response distributed generation to increase reliability and stability, reduce costs and decrease carbon footprint.

At ERock, our backup generators ensure that customers will never be without power, allowing their business to operate normally when there is an outage in the area. Our innovative approach provides customers with highly reliable, ultra-clean backup generation at a fraction of the cost of traditional backup solutions. We seek those who share our commitment to customer service, innovation, and ingenuity.

• The Automation and Controls Manager is responsible for managing, developing, and directing ERock's A&C engineers and technicians supporting power generation and microgrid facilities. The manager owns team performance, staffing, work assignments, technical development, and delivery of controls integration activities from project preparation through commissioning and operational support.
• The role combines direct people management with senior technical capability. The manager must independently evaluate controls and integration problems, make sound technical decisions, and personally lead complex troubleshooting when required. Working with the Commissioning Manager, Engineering, EPC, IT, NOC, and O&M, the manager translates design intent into reliable field execution and builds a team capable of supporting both routine projects and unique medium-voltage installations.

• Directly supervise A&C engineers and technicians. Set individual goals, conduct regular feedback and performance reviews, address performance gaps, and hold employees accountable for quality, safety, schedules, and follow-through.
• Recruit, select, onboard, and develop personnel. Establish role expectations, qualification requirements, progression criteria, and individual training plans in coordination with HR and Training.
• Assign work and balance office, laboratory, project, and urgent field support demands. Coordinate staffing and schedules with commissioning leadership; identify resource gaps and recommend hiring or outside support.
• Coach employees through technical decisions and customer interactions. Delegate with clear ownership, review results, and develop technical depth through mentoring, peer reviews, and shared documentation.

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for integration of generator controllers, generator management controllers (GMCs), PLCs, RTACs, SCADA/HMI, switch gear controls, protection interfaces, and industrial communications.
• Personally evaluate and troubleshoot generator synchronization, paralleling, real and reactive load sharing, voltage and frequency control, islanding, utility transfers, and breaker permissives and interlocks.

• Develop and review control narratives, sequences of operation, interlock matrices, alarm lists, I/O databases, Modbus maps, network interfaces, controller configurations, and controls test procedures.
• Review single-line diagrams, schematics, wiring and termination schedules, panel drawings, vendor packages, and controller files for completeness and field readiness. Resolve technical gaps with Engineering and EPC before mobilization.
• Manage A&C scope, sequencing, milestones, and schedule commitments for new builds, expansions, and retrofits. Own controls test plans and data sheets; establish readiness criteria, identify risks early, and drive mitigation and closeout.
• Direct advanced and first-of-kind controls integration, FAT/SAT, laboratory validation, integrated system testing, startup, performance testing, and technical turnover. Validate unfamiliar configurations before repeat deployment.
• Partner with the Commissioning Manager on readiness and execution. Provide engineering direction for unique and medium-voltage work while the Commissioning Manager manages technician readiness, routine escalation, and daily field activities.
• Lead troubleshooting of synchronization failures, unstable load sharing, transfer sequencing, sensing issues, SCADA loss, communications faults, and controls or protection-interface problems. Use trends, event records, and controlled testing to…