Manager, Operations SCADA & OT

Salary Range: $160,000 - $175,000 plus bonus and incentive stock options

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

Nine Dot's name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. As a leading community-scale, clean energy developer with a growing portfolio of projects across a range of technologies, Nine Dot Energy is creating innovative energy solutions that support a more resilient electric grid, deliver economic savings, address environmental justice and reduce carbon emissions. Our pipeline includes more than 1 GW of clean energy projects designed to strengthen local power grids and provide clean, reliable and resilient power to the communities we serve.

With the backing of Manulife Investment Management and The Carlyle Group - two of the world’s leading infrastructure investors
- Nine Dot is continuing to expand its core battery energy storage pipeline, deliver enhanced products and services, explore new regions and consider potential acquisitions all to advance the decarbonization of New York’s grid. This is an exciting opportunity to build a platform from the ground-up with a world-class team of developers and innovators.

The Manager, Operations SCADA & OT serves as Nine Dot Energy’s hands-on technical owner for SCADA and supports Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure across its growing portfolio of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and distributed energy assets.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with primary responsibility for the development, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Nine Dot’s Ignition SCADA platform. The Manager will work directly within Ignition while also managing external SCADA integrators, leading commissioning and testing, and establishing technical standards across the fleet.

A key objective of this role is to lead Nine Dot’s transition from individual site-level SCADA systems to a standardized, scalable enterprise SCADA platform that provides centralized monitoring, control, alarming, historian functionality, and operational visibility across the portfolio. The role will also provide technical ownership of supporting OT networks and telecommunications, implement practical OT cybersecurity controls, and provide SCADA and controls-related technical support to the O&M team.

SCADA / Ignition Ownership

• Serve as Nine Dot’s internal technical owner and subject-matter expert for the Ignition SCADA platform.
• Develop and modify Ignition screens, dashboards, templates, tags, alarms, trends, historian configurations, and related functionality.
• Troubleshoot the full SCADA data path, including Ignition gateways, scripts, databases, device connections, field controllers, site networks, communications, and backend applications.
• Administer SCADA software, firmware, configurations, backups, licensing, upgrades, and overall system health.
• Develop fleet-wide standards for SCADA architecture, visualization, alarming, naming conventions, data structures, and documentation.
• Lead the transition from individual site systems to a standardized enterprise SCADA platform.
• Serve as Nine Dot’s technical lead for SCADA and controls integrators, maintaining sufficient internal expertise to independently troubleshoot and modify Nine Dot’s systems.
• Develop technical requirements, scopes of work, standards, and acceptance criteria for new projects.
• Review integrator designs and deliverables, including points lists, control narratives, programming, screens, and system configurations.
• Lead or oversee FAT, SAT, point-to-point testing, alarm verification, functional testing, and end-to-end SCADA commissioning.
• Coordinate integration between BESS/EMS platforms, PLCs/RTACs, meters, relays, utilities,…