In short
Vattenfall seeks an experienced OT SCADA Engineer to manage, integrate, and operate SCADA systems for renewable energy operations. The role involves ensuring data flows, participating in on-call rotations, and applying engineering and security principles to maintain reliable and compliant platforms. Based in Kolding, Denmark, the position requires a relevant bachelor's degree and strong English skills.
Responsibilities
- Engineering, configuring, commissioning, maintaining, and improving OT SCADA solutions and interfaces.
- Delivering and supporting reliable data flows from plant-level systems to various consumers.
- Assessing site and interface readiness, defining requirements and integration approaches.
- Configuring, deploying, and supporting resilient SCADA integration components.
- Planning, estimating, and tracking assigned work, documenting technical records and operational knowledge.
- Providing operational support, including incident diagnosis, service restoration, and root-cause analysis.
- Participating in the team's on-call rotation for business-critical services outside normal working hours.
- Improving observability and data quality through health monitoring and alerting.
- Planning and executing lifecycle upgrades, migrations, and configuration changes.
- Producing requirements, designs, implementation guides, and operational handover packages.
- Supporting technical purchasing and supplier coordination through technical evaluations.
- Preparing and executing tests and commissioning checks.
- Standardizing repeatable integration services and supporting refinement of initiatives.
- Supporting internal and external audit activities.
Requirements
- Relevant bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, automation or control engineering, computer engineering, technical computer science, industrial IT, or equivalent professional competence through a relevant technical qualification and substantial experience.
- Several years of hands-on experience engineering, integrating, and supporting SCADA systems or comparable industrial OT solutions.
- Responsibility for systems in operation.
- Ability to take ownership of solutions from analysis and design through to implementation, operation, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent written and spoken English skills.
- SCADA systems and interfaces: configuring, integrating, commissioning, managing, maintaining, operating, and supporting SCADA applications, gateways, and interfaces.
- Industrial communications: working with relevant industrial protocols such as OPC UA, IEC 60870-5-104, Modbus TCP or MQTT, as well as APIs and vendor-specific interfaces.
- Operational resilience: practical understanding of high availability, service monitoring and logging, SCADA application and configuration backup and recovery, and configuration management.
- Operational data flows: understanding signal mapping, timestamps, data quality, buffering, and the recovery of missing historical data.
- Incident and problem management: diagnosing faults, restoring services, investigating root causes, and implementing preventive and proactive improvements.
- Controlled technical changes: planning and delivering upgrades, migrations and configuration changes with appropriate testing, deployment documentation, rollback arrangements and operational handover.
- Secure OT operation: applying OT security requirements, including access controls, certificate handling, system hardening and vulnerability management.
- Engineering documentation: producing and maintaining clear technical documentation of SCADA system architectures, configurations and procedures.
- Supplier collaboration: supporting technical purchasing, assessing and validating solutions, supporting acceptance testing and coordinating technical work.
Desired Qualifications
- Renewable energy, utilities or comparable industrial environments.
- OEM SCADA interfaces.
- Industrial edge platforms or gateways.
- SCADA historians, SQL databases, scripting and automation.
Benefits
- Career with growth and limitless opportunities.
- Support for learning and development.
- Highly competitive pay and conditions.
- Open, supportive culture.
- Commitment to a healthy work-life balance.
- Opportunity to be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities.
- Positive approach to diversity.
Skills
SCADAOPC UAIEC 60870-5-104Modbus TCPMQTTAPISQLPython
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About Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20,000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernised our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are working for fossil freedom.
Company
VattenfallJob Posted
3 days ago
Expires
in 1 week
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
Kolding, Denmark
Qualification
Bachelor, Diploma
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