OverviewAs the SCADA Engineering Manager, you are responsible for the technical leadership and oversight of SCADA, monitoring, plant control, and communication systems for our utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects. This role involves working closely with engineering teams, project managers, customers, grid operators, and external suppliers such as Gantner or Meteocontrol, ensuring that these systems are correctly specified, integrated, tested, and commissioned. This role requires strong technical knowledge and the ability to act as a central technical interface across various stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and reliability of SCADA, plant control, and communication systems.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Technical ownership of SCADA, monitoring, plant control, and communication systems
- Supplier management, including coordinating SCADA/PPC providers and ensuring they adhere to correct specifications, integration, and delivery
- Acting as a central technical interface between engineering, project teams, customers, grid operators, and suppliers
- Testing and commissioning oversight for SCADA, plant control, and communication systems
- Engineering and project coordination across the full plant lifecycle
Your Mission- Technical ownership of SCADA, monitoring, plant control, and communication systems
- Supplier management, including coordinating SCADA/PPC providers and ensuring they adhere to correct specifications, integration, and delivery
- Acting as a central technical interface between engineering, project teams, customers, grid operators, and suppliers
- Testing and commissioning oversight for SCADA, plant control, and communication systems
- Engineering and project coordination across the full plant lifecycle
Your Profile- Degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering, control engineering, mechatronics, computer engineering, or a comparable technical discipline
- Several years of professional experience in SCADA, industrial automation, power plant control, renewable energy, or grid integration
- Experience with utility-scale PV, BESS, substations, or other power generation assets highly desirable
- Good understanding of SCADA architectures, industrial communication networks, and plant control systems
- Familiarity with communication protocols such as Modbus TCP/RTU, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850, OPC UA, or comparable
- Understanding of active power, reactive power, voltage and grid control concepts is an advantage
- Experience working with grid operators, utilities, or grid compliance requirements highly desirable
- Proven track record coordinating external technical suppliers and managing complex system interfaces
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across hardware, software, and communication systems
- Confident communicator with engineers, customers, suppliers, and grid operators
- Structured working style and a strong ownership mentality—driving technical topics until resolved
- Willingness to travel occasionally to project sites, suppliers, or customers
- Driving licence category B
- Fluent English; German language skills strongly preferred
- A responsible, proactive, and solution-oriented approach to work, with the ability to apply professional expertise effectively in day-to-day activities
- A commitment to respectful, trusting collaboration and mutual support within the team
What We Offer
- Work in a growing, international company with a start-up mindset
- A workplace in a central location in Saarbrücken with good transport links
- An open and friendly working atmosphere
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