SCADA Testing Engineer

Interested to contribute to the energy transition by making the electrical grid smarter, greener and stronger?

Then, we have following a great opportunity for you within our operating unit for Substation Automation systems!

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic, flexible and curious project engineer to strengthen our innovative engineering team, that is specialized in the SCADA area of substation automation projects.

As a testing engineer, you will be responsible for the successful execution of the Scada scope during system testing of our substation automation projects globally. Within those projects, you will be working closely together with the project manager, the SCADA engineer and the customer in successfully delivering those projects.

You will be part of a large world-class engineering community within our Hub Europe organization, surrounded by colleagues with many years of expertise and knowhow on executing large and complex substation automation projects globally. Truly a great working environment to learn, to develop and to contribute to our company’s vision of advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible and secure!

Your responsibilities:

• Carrying out the testing for the configuration of Scada for transmission and distribution substations in line with customer specification ( based on MicroSCADA and RTU560 product family ) 

• Develop together with the project core team the Scada concepts for transmission and distribution systems in close collaboration with the customer 

• Continuous interactions with the engineering and project management team to carry out the testing works effectively.

• Independently manage both internal tests and final customer tests (FAT)

• Living Hitachi Energy core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business

Your background:

• Educational Qualification; Engineering Diploma

• Proven experience in station level control (preferable), working as project and/or commissioning engineer with SCADA (MicroSCADA preferable) and/or RTU solutions.  

• Excellent communication skills, customer interface skills multi priority and multi-tasking.

• Analytical and strategic approach

• Proven communication and presentation skills in Portuguese and English.

• Willingness to travel in Portugal