SCADA Senior Engineer

job requisition id R-02303

ABOUT IBERDROLA

With more than 170 years of history, Iberdrola is a world leader in energy. The group is active in Europe (France, Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and is developing in Japan, Ireland, Sweden and Poland.

Iberdrola has made the bold and visionary choice to anticipate the energy transition and the growing energy needs for the world of tomorrow. Every day, the 38,000 women and men of the group unite to fight climate change by offering a clean, reliable and innovative economic model.

ABOUT IBERDROLA FRANCE

Iberdrola has been located in France for 20 years, with its head office in Paris - La Défense and regional offices. In addition to the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project, the company is present in the fields of onshore wind power, photovoltaic solar energy, and the retail energy market. We have developed a long-term investment strategy throughout the country which will enable us to achieve an installed capacity of 614 MW in 2023.

We are investing heavily in renewable energy, smart grids, large-scale energy storage, and digital transformation.

OUR MISSION

We are driving the energy transition towards a sustainable model through investments in renewable energy, smart grids, and large-scale energy storage. With our commitment to clean energy, we are one of the lowest emitters globally and an international reference for our contribution to combating climate change and sustainable development.

Our culture focuses on creating an inclusive and collaborative environment, respecting individuals and their differences. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or gender identity.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS

• Define the necessities, improvements, and maintenance strategy of the control and communications systems in the Continental Europe Offshore Hub, to guarantee the highest asset availability, compliance with regulatory requirements, and the best service quality following industry practices and standards.
• Identify the business technical risks related to the control systems, SCADA, and communications systems condition and propose the necessary actions/plans to mitigate those risks as much as reasonably possible.
• Implement and supervise the required corrective and preventive maintenance activities to maintain/recover asset availability/reliability either on his/her own or through contractors.
• Assess any technical issue related to the control systems, SCADA, and communications systems, carrying out Root Cause Analysis and proposing/implementing necessary actions to avoid any recurrence.
• Deploy the necessary actions to comply with any regulatory requirements that may apply.
• Coordinate related maintenance activities with offshore site technical teams to guarantee the right execution timescales and work quality while ensuring compliance with applicable H&S rules.
• Extend any lessons learned and identified best practices to other Offshore Hubs.
• Define, alongside the new Offshore projects teams and the SCADA, Comms and Cybersecurity Lead, the best technical solutions for the new offshore projects under development and construction to guarantee the best performance and maintainability condition after the Commercial Operation Date starts.
• Coordinate maintenance strategies for the control and comms systems with other Offshore O&M Hubs (UK and USA) to ensure uniform, global, and standardized solutions are implemented.
• Prepare Scope of Works and Suppliers Technical Evaluations, playing an active role during procurement processes to ensure that the most technically qualified providers are selected.
• Manage efficiently the maintenance contracts for which he/she is responsible, striving to reduce maintenance costs and contributing to maximize business EBITDA.
• Interact with Global Technical Services, offshore site teams, Original Equipment Manufacturers, certification, and regulatory bodies as required.
• Manage the personnel under self-remit, identify their training needs, and implement necessary actions to fulfill those gaps.

EXPERIENCE

• In design, programming, and management of PLCs, SCADAs, and distributed control systems (>5 years)
• On cybersecurity applied in OT environment (>2 years)
• In contract management (>3 years)
• In leading international projects related to control systems (>5 years)

LANGUAGES

• French: fluent
• Spanish is a plus

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