IEC 61850 Substation Automation Engineer

Black & Veatch Corporation; Burlington (MA); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Black & Veatch Corporation is seeking experienced engineers to join a Power SCADA team focused on IEC 61850-based substation automation and virtual substation technologies. You will help design, implement, and support production-ready Power SCADA solutions for a modern grid.

As a founding member of the vPAC Alliance, the role emphasizes open, vendor-agnostic architectures, strong cybersecurity, and collaboration with utilities and industry groups to advance standards and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited program.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• Pre-employment onboarding/background checks may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop SCL engineering artifacts including ICD, CID, and SCD files, datasets, logical node mappings, reporting and control blocks, and GOOSE publications and subscriptions.
• Configure and validate MMS, GOOSE, and SV messaging for protection, automation, monitoring, and SCADA applications.
• Design deterministic real-time networking paths for time-sensitive protection and automation applications, including latency budgeting and timing performance.
• Diagnose and optimize real-time network behavior through traffic-capature analysis and system tuning for time-critical workloads.
• Develop PTP-based time-synchronization architectures and integrate timing considerations into system design.

Skills

IEC61850 knowledge

SCADA engineering

Networking design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

VMware ESXi

vCenter

vSAN

NSX

Red Hat KVM

OpenShift Virtualization

SEAPATH virtualization

Job description

Black & Veatch Corporation is seeking experienced engineers to join a Power SCADA team focused on IEC 61850-based substation automation and virtual substation technologies. You will help design, implement, and support production-ready Power SCADA solutions for a modern grid.

As a founding member of the vPAC Alliance, the role emphasizes open, vendor-agnostic architectures, strong cybersecurity, and collaboration with utilities and industry groups to advance standards and best practices.