Control Engineer, Renewable & Hybrid Power Plants

Opoura GmbH; Silkeborg; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Opoura GmbH in Silkeborg, Denmark, seeks a Control Engineer to work across wind, solar, BESS and PtX projects, translating requirements into robust control behavior and validating solutions through simulation and field input.

You will join a four-person Control & Communication team, collaborating across Software, SCADA, Product, Grid Modeling and commissioning in an international setup. Travel to Hannover or Cluj-Napoca may be required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with control engineering, automation or industrial control systems.
• Experience developing or implementing control functionality, not only analyzing it.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink or comparable control modeling environments.
• Experience with simulation, structured validation, SIL, HIL or similar test approaches.
• Familiarity with PLC or industrial control development environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve power plant controller functionality for wind, solar, BESS, PtX and hybrid power plants.
• Translate product, project, market and grid-related requirements into practical and reliable control behavior.
• Develop and validate functionality using simulation models, structured test environments and methods such as SIL or HIL where relevant.
• Investigate unexpected behavior during testing, commissioning or field operation and turn findings into robust product improvements.
• Work across Software, SCADA, Grid Modeling, Product and commissioning to ensure control functionality works as part of the complete system.
• Strengthen how controller functionality is developed, tested, documented and maintained as the product evolves.

Skills

Control engineering

Automation

Industrial control systems

MATLAB/Simulink

Git

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Git

PLC environments

Job description

Location

Germany – Isernhagen

Work arrangement

Flexible

Department

Technology

Employment type

Full-time

About the job

If you want to stay technically deep without narrowing your role to one small part of the system, this could be a strong next step.

At Opoura, you will work across a broad part of the control product lifecycle, from requirements and control logic to simulation, testing, commissioning feedback and product improvements. You will see how your engineering decisions perform in the wider plant and use what you learn to improve the product.

You will do this across wind, solar, BESS, PtX and hybrid power plants. The role combines the depth of a specialist position with the technical breadth and influence that come with being part of a small engineering team.

Your role

You will join our Control & Communication team, which currently consists of four colleagues based in Silkeborg and Hamburg. You will report to Adina-Elena Balea, Director Control & Communication, who is based in Cluj-Napoca, and work as part of an international engineering setup.

In a team of this size, your contribution is visible. You will have room to influence technical solutions as well as how the team approaches development, testing and validation. At the same time, you will work closely with colleagues in Software, SCADA, Product, Grid Modeling and commissioning, giving you insight into the wider system rather than one isolated part of it.

A piece of work might start with a new product or grid requirement, an unexpected result during testing, or an observation from commissioning. You may help define the intended controller behavior, reason through modes, limits and priorities, validate the solution in simulation, and later use field feedback to improve the product further.

This is not primarily a power-system studies or consultancy role. The role is centered on practical product development: building control functionality that can be implemented, tested, maintained and scaled across projects and markets.

The role is preferably based in Silkeborg, Denmark, but can also be located at our offices in Hannover, Germany, or Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Some travel should be expected for collaboration, testing or commissioning activities.

Your main responsibilities will be

• Develop and improve power plant controller functionality for wind, solar, BESS, PtX and hybrid power plants.
• Translate product, project, market and grid-related requirements into practical and reliable control behavior.
• Develop and validate functionality using simulation models, structured test environments and methods such as SIL or HIL where relevant.
• Investigate unexpected behavior during testing, commissioning or field operation and turn findings into robust product improvements.
• Work across Software, SCADA, Grid Modeling, Product and commissioning to ensure control functionality works as part of the complete system.
• Strengthen how controller functionality is developed, tested, documented and maintained as the product evolves.

To be successful in this position, you

• Dig into system behavior to understand the underlying cause, not only make the nominal case work.
• Move comfortably between requirements, control logic, simulation results, testing and observations from real systems.
• Think beyond the immediate project and look for solutions that can be maintained and reused across products and configurations.
• Make sound engineering trade-offs and communicate your reasoning clearly across technical disciplines.
• Challenge assumptions constructively when requirements or system behavior are unclear.
• Bring structure to complex technical problems without overcomplicating the solution.

Your background

You are likely an engineer who enjoys the point where control theory becomes working functionality. Your background may come from renewable energy, industrial automation, electrical engineering or another technically demanding control environment.

More important than a specific industry label is that you have worked with real control systems and understand what it takes to make functionality reliable, testable and maintainable.

We expect that you bring:

• Hands-on experience with control engineering, automation or industrial control systems.
• Experience developing or implementing control functionality, not only analyzing it.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink or comparable control modeling environments.
• Experience with simulation, structured validation, SIL, HIL or similar test approaches.
• Familiarity with PLC or industrial control development environments.
• Experience with Git or other version control tools.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Experience with renewable power plants, BESS, power plant controllers or grid-related control is valuable, but we do not expect you to arrive as an expert in every technology or grid domain.

A degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Automation, Power Engineering or a related discipline can provide a useful foundation. Demonstrated engineering capability matters more than the exact title of your degree.

Opoura is a Danish renewable energy technology company with teams across Europe and the US. We develop software, SCADA, control and operational technology solutions that help energy companies manage and optimize renewable energy assets such as wind farms, solar plants and battery systems.

Our control products sit where software, electrical systems, grid requirements and real plant operation meet.

What we offer

This role is for an engineer who wants more scope without moving away from technical specialization.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Work broadly within control engineering, following functionality from requirements and development through validation and feedback from real plant operation.
• Work across wind, solar, BESS, PtX and hybrid configurations rather than being limited to one technology, subsystem or development phase.
• Have real influence in a four-person specialist team, both on technical solutions and on how development, testing and validation are approached.
• Collaborate directly with specialists across Software, SCADA, Product, Grid Modeling and commissioning in an international engineering organization.

You will still be a control engineering specialist. You will simply get to see, understand and influence more of what happens around your part of the system.