Power Plant Engineer

Power Plant Engineer

Palm Beach Gardens/Jupiter West, FL

12+ months

Experience

• 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.

Roles & 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.
• 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.

Education : At least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field is required for the project