SCADA Senior Engineer

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.

Iberdrola is located in France since 20 years, with its head office in Paris - La Défense and its offices in regions. 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 focus on create 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 assets availability, the compliance with the regulatory requirements and the best service quality following the best 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 the assets 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 the Root Cause Analysis and proposing/implementing the necessary action to avoid any re-occurrence.
• Deploy the necessary actions to comply with any regulatory requirements that may apply
• Coordinate the related maintenance activities with the offshore site technical teams to guarantee the right execution timescales and works quality as long as the compliance of the applicable H&S rules.
• Extend any lesson learnt and the identified best practices to the others 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 the maintenance strategies for the control and comms systems with the other Offshore O&M Hubs (UK and USA) so that uniformed, global and standardized solutions are implemented.
• Prepare Scope of Works and Suppliers Technical Evaluations, playing and active role during the procurement processes to make sure that the most technically qualified providers are selected.
• Manage efficiently the maintenance contracts which he/she is responsible for, striving to reduce the maintenance costs and contributing to maximize the business EBITDA.
• Interact with the Global Technical Services, Offshore site teams, Original Equipment Manufacturers, certification and regulatory bodies as long as it is required.
• Manage the personnel under self remit, identify their training needs and put in place the necessary actions to fulfill those gaps

Experience

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

Languages

• English : Bilingual/ native
• French : fluent
• Spanish is a plus

Mobility Information

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.