SCADA and Automation Engineer - Technical Director

WSP is currently initiating a search for a SCADA and Automation Engineer – Technical Director for our Boise office. Candidates for our offices in Clarkston WA, Portland OR, San Diego CA, Denver CO, Salt Lake City UT, and Ft Lauderdale FL will also be considered. Be involved in projects with our Electrical Studies, SCADA, and Protection (ESSP) and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.

The successful applicant will be responsible for successful completion of assigned projects and maintaining and improving client relationships. Completion of these functions requires technical competence in primary production roles as well as leadership competence in working with clients and mentoring and supervising team members assigned to projects. Assigned projects will include electrical studies for utility and industrial/commercial clients. Systems to be analyzed will include conventional and renewable generation facilities, substations, and transmission and distribution systems.

Candidates for this role will have familiarity, experience, or possibly even expertise with some of the items listed below. However, we are realistic in our expectations of your professional experience, and do not expect you to have expertise or experience in all of these areas. A willingness to learn in areas where you do not have experience and to teach others in areas where you do have experience is essential to being successful on our team.

• Provides subject matter technical support and leadership design, engineering, and commissioning of utility, industrial, and commercial scale projects in the public and private sector. Tasks include specification, design, concept development, and commissioning of transmission and distribution substations, power distribution, power regulation, renewable energy, as well as protection and control systems for a wide variety of clients. Provides guidance to project managers and engineers that address current and future project challenges.
  
  Provides a level of project quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.

• Leadership:
  Coordinate, review and approve electrical infrastructure design plans for mid-level and complex projects, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.

• Data Acquisition:
  Prepare points lists of all data to be transferred between control centers and controlled apparatus, assign and program data addressing and routing information, develop Human Machine Interface (HMI) screens, travel to project sites to test and commission data transfer schemes.

• Networking:
  Design and configure network and communication paths for Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), Data Concentrators, Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), Human Machine Interface (HMIs), and other SCADA system equipment inside the substation or facility.

• Communications:
  Specify and design communication networks including data security and availability. Develop basic specifications for fiber optic, microwave, power line carrier, or radio communication paths; infrequent travel to project sites to troubleshoot and commission network and communication systems.

• Working knowledge or awareness of applicable industry SCADA practices outlined in IEEE, IEC, ANSI, CIGRE, or NERC standards and regulations for design work.

• Applicable network and communication protocols:

• DNP, Modbus, and IEC 61850 specified protocols

• Experience with legacy SCADA protocols a plus

• Applicable Logic and Control Platforms:

• SEL RTAC, Nova Tech Orion, Eaton SMP

• Applicable Software:

• Wonderware, AcSELerator RTAC, Nova Tech NCD/Inkscape

• IEC 61850 System Configuration Tool experience a plus

• Familiarity with SCADA/EMS/ADMS software a plus

• Logic and Control Systems: develop, document, and implement logic and control schemes for remote and local operation of power system equipment (Microgrid, Volt/Var Control, Load Shedding, Distribution Automation, and other custom logic); develop programs on various platforms for implementation of these schemes; travel to project sites to test and commission the…