Protection & Control Engineer: Solar & Storage Commissioning

Soltage; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Soltage in Jersey City, NJ, seeks an experienced Protection and Control (P&C) Engineer to lead P&C, SCADA, and commissioning for standalone energy storage and solar projects across North America, from relay settings and design reviews to energization.

Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you will oversee relay protection, RTAC/RTU integration, cybersecurity, and documentation, ensuring safe, reliable utility-scale operations and compliance with North American standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical preferred).
• 3–5 years of project or field engineering experience on renewable construction projects focusing on P&C design and commissioning.
• Strong knowledge of P&C systems for utility-scale substations, BESS, solar PV, and MV interconnection facilities.
• Working knowledge of SCADA architectures, substation automation, RTACs, RTUs, protective relays, and industrial networking.
• Experience with FAT, SAT, relay and protection testing, SCADA verification and energization.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Outlook).

Responsibilities

• Provide P&C, SCADA, RTAC, communications, and commissioning engineering for utility-scale BESS, solar PV, and substations across North America.
• Lead development and review of P&C packages including protection philosophies, relay settings coordination, diagrams, panel layouts, and communications architecture.
• Develop and review commissioning procedures, relay logic, cause-and-effect matrices, and test documentation.
• Oversee SCADA and EMS integration including RTUs, RTACs, HMIs, historians, remote communications, and cybersecurity.
• Support communication protocols (DNP3, Modbus TCP/IP, RTU, IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104, OPC UA, IEEE C37.118).
• Lead commissioning activities: point-to-point verification, relay testing, SCADA checkout, grid synchronization, energization.
• Perform root-cause analysis on protection events and equipment failures; recommend corrective actions.
• Review vendor submittals, protection studies, commissioning reports, and as-builts.
• Support EPC scopes of work, technical specifications, and RFPs for P&C, SCADA, and commissioning services.

Skills

P&C design

SCADA

RTAC/RTU

Commissioning

Relay testing

Electrical protection

Project management

Vendor review

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred)

Tools

Procore

Primavera P6

Microsoft Office

Job description

Soltage in Jersey City, NJ, seeks an experienced Protection and Control (P&C) Engineer to lead P&C, SCADA, and commissioning for standalone energy storage and solar projects across North America, from relay settings and design reviews to energization.

Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you will oversee relay protection, RTAC/RTU integration, cybersecurity, and documentation, ensuring safe, reliable utility-scale operations and compliance with North American standards.