Control Systems Engineer III - IV, Energy Accounting Specialty
$104,822–$177,107 year
HybridEphrata, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Maintain, configure, and repair the Utilities' Energy Accounting and Water Accounting systems, customizing user interfaces to improve functionality and accuracy. Diagnose and resolve communications and data issues related to application telemetry and infrastructure, utilizing tools like Wireshark to analyze network traffic. Plan, coordinate, and execute updates, patches, and upgrades for locally hosted applications while ensuring data integrity and minimizing downtime. Support internal and external inquiries regarding EAS data and collaborate with regional utility companies on EIDE communications. Lead code reviews, manage source code repositories, and create comprehensive documentation including troubleshooting guides and standard operating procedures. Collect, store, and report data required for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance and regulatory reporting.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, or 2 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
- Three (3) to Six (6) years of experience in maintaining applications providing 24x7 support of critical operations
- Six (6) or more years of experience in maintaining applications providing 24x7 support of critical operations, with at least three of those years supporting energy accounting applications (energy tagging based applications)
- Knowledge of NERC standards and regulations
- Knowledge of concepts, principles, theories, and methods surrounding electrical engineering industry standards and best practices
- Knowledge of data processing sufficient to be able to review program specifications, design programs and write or modify software code
- Knowledge of common application development patterns, including, but not limited to, Software Engineering best practices for all applicable technology, client-server architecture, service applications, object-oriented, and object-based software design
- Skill in problem-solving and thinking critically
- Independently adapting, interpreting, and applying written guidelines, precedents, and standardized work practices to a variety of unprecedented and problematic situations
- Written and oral interpersonal communication; workflow and time management
- Utilizing MS office products; specialized software, tools, and applications
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- A Washington State Engineering in Training
- Utility experience
- Professional Engineer (PE)
- Knowledge of energy markets
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