Director Generation Controls Protection and Automation Power and Energy

You will set the controls, protection, and automation philosophy for islanded microgrids supporting AI data-center loads. You will direct control architecture, power-system studies, protection design, SCADA and OT systems, and HIL testing. You will carry the scope through commissioning, lead technical partners, build standards, and manage a small controls and protection team.

Responsibilities

• Own microgrid control architecture, power management, dispatch, load sharing, and frequency and voltage regulation.
• Define control philosophies and specifications for controllers, governors, AVRs, and BESS controls.
• Direct dynamic modeling and verification of stability, controller interactions, and resonance risks.
• Own protection philosophy, relaying schemes, coordination studies, arc-flash studies, and settings management.
• Review and approve protection designs and relay settings.
• Direct controller and protection hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Own generation automation, SCADA, substation automation, communications, and time synchronization architecture.
• Set OT network and cybersecurity requirements.
• Carry controls and protection scopes through design, testing, energization, and integrated systems testing.
• Build standards and lead engineers, consultants, OEMs, and EPC partners.

Requirements

• 10+ years of power-systems controls, protection, or automation engineering experience.
• Experience with islanded, industrial, or microgrid power systems.
• Protective relaying, coordination-study, and digital-relay settings expertise.
• Experience with power management, governor and excitation coordination, and inverter controls.
• Knowledge of EMT modeling, dynamic stability, short circuit, coordination, and arc-flash studies.
• SCADA, substation automation, IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, and OT cybersecurity knowledge.
• Experience delivering controls and protection scopes through commissioning and energization.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Ability to travel regularly to project sites and vendor facilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Generous PTO and US federal holidays.
• Flexible workplace.
• Parental leave.