Remote Microgrid Controls Engineer — Systems Automation

AES Corporation; Louisville (CO); Remote; USD 145,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off including vacation/sick/

Parental leave

Job summary

AES Corporation is seeking a Microgrid Controls Engineer to design, develop, test, implement, and commission microgrid control solutions—integrating natural-gas generation, BESS, solar PV, and utility interconnections. You will deliver safe automation, HMI/SCADA, protection, and communications from design through field startup and turnover.

Responsibilities include developing control philosophies, programming PLCs, configuring communications, and coordinating with vendors and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, controls engineering, computer engineering, or related field.
• Typically 4 to 8 years of experience in power-distribution controls, industrial automation, microgrids, SCADA, or related field.
• Experience programming automation controllers or PLCs using ladder logic, structured text, function block diagrams, or CODESYS is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microgrid control solutions integrating natural-gas generators, BESS, solar PV, and site loads.
• Develop, modify, test, and deploy software for automation controllers, PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and data concentrators.
• Develop control philosophies, sequences of operation, functional descriptions, state diagrams, alarm strategies, operating modes, and test procedures.
• Configure and integrate industrial communications using Modbus, DNP3, and IEC 61850.
• Coordinate with Project Management, Electrical Engineering, and external vendors to meet schedule and safety requirements.
• Prepare factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, and commissioning procedures.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Controls engineering

Industrial automation

SCADA

Power-distribution controls

PLC programming

Ladder logic

Structured text

Function block diagrams

CODESYS

Modbus

DNP3

IEC 61850

Ignition Perspective

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field

Tools

Ignition Perspective

CODESYS

Job description

AES Corporation is seeking a Microgrid Controls Engineer to design, develop, test, implement, and commission microgrid control solutions—integrating natural-gas generation, BESS, solar PV, and utility interconnections. You will deliver safe automation, HMI/SCADA, protection, and communications from design through field startup and turnover.

Responsibilities include developing control philosophies, programming PLCs, configuring communications, and coordinating with vendors and customers.