Senior Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Control Engineer

Worley; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley is seeking a Principal Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Engineer to provide engineering expertise for operation, maintenance, modernization, and reliability improvements of hydroelectric pumped storage facilities. The role requires extensive knowledge of plant operations, turbine-generator controls, governor and excitation systems, DCS, and IEEE 1010 standards.

Responsibilities include leading modernization projects, developing control narratives, and validating transitions from relay-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in power generation, hydroelectric facilities, and industrial control systems.
• Experience with Emerson Ovation DCS.
• Knowledge of NERC, FERC, utility operating requirements, and cyber security practices.
• Knowledge of turbine-generator operational sequencing and interaction between control, protection, and monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze plant operating issues and develop corrective actions.
• Support unit start-up, shutdown, synchronization, and operating sequence improvements.
• Review operating procedures and recommend enhancements for safety and reliability.
• Lead modernization projects involving replacement of legacy relay-based control systems with distributed control systems (DCS).
• Evaluate existing relay logic, hardwired control schemes, and electromechanical sequencing circuits and translate them into modern software-based control logic.
• Develop control narratives, functional design specifications, and sequence-of-operation documentation for digital control implementations.
• Review and validate conversion of unit startup, shutdown, synchronization, load control, and protection interface functions from relay-based systems to modern DCS architectures.
• Support FAT, SAT, commissioning, and operational readiness reviews.
• Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance personnel to ensure digital control systems support established plant operating practices and reliability objectives.
• Verify compliance with hydroelectric control system industry practices as defined in IEEE Std 1010, including unit control, monitoring, local/remote operation, centralized control, and control system interfaces.
• Develop and review control logic narratives and sequence of operation documents.
• Implement control system upgrades and modernization projects.

Skills

Control logic diagrams

Relay drawings

HMI displays

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related

Tools

Emerson Ovation

SCADA

DCS

Job description

Worley is seeking a Principal Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Engineer to provide engineering expertise for operation, maintenance, modernization, and reliability improvements of hydroelectric pumped storage facilities. The role requires extensive knowledge of plant operations, turbine-generator controls, governor and excitation systems, DCS, and IEEE 1010 standards.

Responsibilities include leading modernization projects, developing control narratives, and validating transitions from relay-based