SCADA & Commissioning Engineer

About this role

As Scout’s SCADA & Commissiong Engineer, you will lead the design, configuration, and onsite commissioning of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Operational Technology (OT) systems across our utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS projects. As part of the Construction Engineering team, you will ensure that all digital control layers—from individual inverters to the Power Plant Controllers—are engineered for reliability, security, and peak performance before handover to the Operations & Maintenance team.
Your Responsibilities Include:
SCADA & Commissioning Project Engineering

• Lead owner-side SCADA engineering from conceptual design through commissioning and Operations handoff

• Lead technical reviews of vendor submittals and drawings. Approve SCADA design packages (30%, 60%, 90%, and IFC) , including communications architecture, point mapping, and commissioning procedures

• Specify and validate SCADA system components (RTUs, RTACs, PPCs, HMIs, communications infrastructure)

• Define and document control and data interfaces between BESS subsystems and site SCADA, PPC, substation systems, revenue metering, remote operations connectivity, interconnecting utility and ISO/RTO

• Coordinate with EPCs, OEMs, plant controller vendors, utilities, and ISOs to ensure design and integration alignment

• Manage and support FAT, SAT, point-to-point testing, telemetry checkout, and control verification for SCADA Equipment

• Lead the configuration and troubleshooting of Power Plant Controllers (PPC), RTUs, HMIs, and protection relays using protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, and IEC 61850.

• Review and validate PPC control philosophies including active power, reactive power, Volt/VAr, Volt/Watt, frequency response, curtailment, Automatic Generation Control and BESS operating modes.

• Provide on-site and remote commissioning, testing, energization, and troubleshooting support, including pre-functional checks, functional testing, and final system validation to ensure assets operate according to design specifications

• Support utility witness testing and commercial operation testing activities

• Manage troubleshooting for complex integration issues involving protocols, network performance, data quality, and control interlocks during construction and commissioning

• Verify plant controls comply with applicable grid (e.g. NERC/CIP), utility, and regulatory SCADA requirements and coordinate required SCADA checkouts and point-to-point testing

• Lead development of specifications and scope of work for SCADA, power plant controller, RTU, and IT equipment networks and implementation

• Provide requirements needed to procure telecom services and field communications solutions

• Deliver complete as-built documentation and lessons learned to Operations

• Provide post-handover SCADA support, including troubleshooting

• Scope, Manage, and Execute Operations-driven SCADA projects as required

OT Network Integration Management (New Sites)

• Define and coordinate OT network integration scope and execution plans

• Review and validate OT network architectures and detailed designs, ensuring telemetry requirements of Interconnecting Utilities/RTO/ISO/TOP’s, PPA Offtakers, OEM service providers, Scheduling Coordinators, and other applicable requirements are implemented.

• Coordinate implementation of site switches, firewalls, ISPs, and VPNs per approved designs

• Validate network configurations (IP schemes, VLANs, interfaces, firewall rules)

• Support commissioning, troubleshooting, and Operations handoff of OT networks

• Coordinate with cross functional teams to ensure SCADA deliverables align with overall project requirements and critical path schedules.

Key Interfaces:
Interconnection

• Support the Resource Integration Manager during interconnection activities by reviewing telemetry, data, and control requirements in GIAs

• Ensure interconnection requirements are incorporated into EPC’s SCADA and PPC scope and designs

• Coordinate points list, telemetry checkout, and control integrations with utilities and grid operators

• Develop and execute SCADA and PPC commissioning test plans in coordination with Resource Integration Manager

IT & Cybersecurity

• Support the IT and Cybersecurity Manager to ensure IT and Cybersecurity network requirements are incorporated into EPC scope, specifications, and designs

• Coordinate formal handover of site networks from EPC to IT and Cybersecurity teams

Asset Management & Operations

• Interface with the Site Management Team and Remote Operations Team to ensure AMO requirements are incorporated into EPC scope, specifications, and design reviews

• Support AMO participation in SCADA and PPC FAT, SAT, commissioning, and system acceptance activities

• Support continuous improvement by incorporating AMO feedback into standards, designs, and future projects

• Provide troubleshooting, SCADA and OT Networking operational project scoping feedback, and technical expertise support to AMO on an ad-hoc basis.
Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, control systems engineering, or related field from an accredited technical university

• 3 - 4 years commissioning experience on Utility Scale Wind, Solar PV or Battery Energy Storage projects. Experience with integration of Battery Energy Storage Systems into Wind or Solar PV plant is a must.

• 3 -7 years of applied knowledge in electrical utility SCADA systems, substation instrumentation and controls, industrial automation, embedded system development, or equivalent experience in a critical operations industry reliant on integrated operational technologies and equipment

Desired Skills

• In depth knowledge of control system requirements for Wind, Solar PV, and BESS electrical generation and working knowledge of the fundamentals of power systems, such as calculating or interpreting voltage drop profiles, power factor corrections, harmonic distortion, phase…