Power Plant Engineer — IT/OT Migration & Compliance

Tekgence Inc; Florida; On-site; USD 55,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekgence Inc. is seeking a Power Plant Engineer for a long-term contract in Palm Beach Gardens/Jupiter West, FL. The role focuses on planning and executing migration activities across gas, nuclear, solar, and wind facilities, coordinating with IT/OT, cybersecurity, and field operations to minimize downtime.

Responsibilities include gathering migration requirements, assessing current architectures, and producing detailed implementation plans and risk analyses for site migrations.

Qualifications

• Experience in utility, energy, transmission, distribution, or renewable energy sectors.
• Knowledge of NERC-CIP, industry regulatory standards, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Familiarity with cloud migration, application modernization, and enterprise system integration projects.
• Experience working with power generation technologies such as gas, nuclear, solar, wind, or combined-cycle plants.
• Conduct on-site assessments of power generation facilities, substations, and supporting infrastructure.
• Engage with plant stakeholders, operations teams, maintenance personnel, engineering groups, and IT/OT teams to gather migration requirements.
• Document the current-state architecture, including operational systems, network infrastructure, control systems, applications, and associated dependencies.
• Evaluate plant-specific requirements, operational constraints, and compliance considerations that may impact migration activities.
• Perform gap analysis between current and target-state environments.
• Identify risks, challenges, and potential operational impacts associated with site migration activities.
• Develop migration strategies, implementation plans, and detailed requirement documents.
• Coordinate with engineering, cybersecurity, network, SCADA, EMS, and plant operations teams to ensure all migration requirements are captured.
• Support migration planning workshops, stakeholder meetings, and technical review sessions.
• Provide recommendations to optimize migration schedules while minimizing downtime and business disruption.
• Assist project leadership with effort estimation, resource planning, and migration readiness assessments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct on-site assessments of power generation facilities, substations, and supporting infrastructure.
• Engage with plant stakeholders, operations teams, maintenance personnel, engineering groups, and IT/OT teams to gather migration requirements.
• Document the current-state architecture, including operational systems, network infrastructure, control systems, applications, and associated dependencies.
• Develop migration strategies, implementation plans, and detailed requirement documents.
• Coordinate with engineering, cybersecurity, network, SCADA, EMS, and plant operations teams to ensure all migration requirements are captured.
• Support migration planning workshops and stakeholder meetings.

Skills

Utility energy sectors

NERC-CIP standards

Cloud migration

Application modernization

Enterprise integration

Gas

Nuclear

Solar

Wind

Combined-cycle

On-site assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Operations teams

Maintenance

Engineering teams

IT/OT teams

Current-state architecture

Operational systems

Network infrastructure

Control systems

Applications

Dependencies

Plant requirements

Operational constraints

Compliance considerations

Migration impact

Gap analysis

Risks

Challenges

Operational impact

Site migration

Migration strategies

Implementation plans

Requirement documents

Engineering teams

Cybersecurity

Network

SCADA

EMS

Plant operations

Planning workshops

Stakeholder meetings

Technical reviews

Migration optimization

Downtime reduction

Business disruption

Effort estimation

Resource planning

Migration readiness

Assessments

Tools

SCADA/EMS tools

Cybersecurity tools

Job description

Tekgence Inc. is seeking a Power Plant Engineer for a long-term contract in Palm Beach Gardens/Jupiter West, FL. The role focuses on planning and executing migration activities across gas, nuclear, solar, and wind facilities, coordinating with IT/OT, cybersecurity, and field operations to minimize downtime.

Responsibilities include gathering migration requirements, assessing current architectures, and producing detailed implementation plans and risk analyses for site migrations.