Controls Engineering Specialist - Power Generation

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This position reports to:

Technical Solutions Director

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Your role and responsibilities

 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead the design, migration, implementation, and commissioning of advanced control systems for power generation facilities across the region. Acting as the technical bridge between ABB engineering teams and customers, you will own application-specific control solutions from concept through commissioning while ensuring safe, reliable, and high-performance plant operations.

The work model for the role is: #LI-Onsite.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Developing application-specific control solutions for gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, balance-of-plant, and auxiliary systems.
• Preparing control philosophies, functional design specifications, control narratives, logic diagrams, and I/O lists to meet customer and project requirements.
• Configuring, programming, and testing DCS and PLC systems, HMI graphics, alarm management functions, and historians.
• Leading migration projects from legacy or competitor control systems to ABB platforms, including ABB Ability™ Symphony Plus, System 800xA, AC 800M, and Freelance.
• Performing control system audits, gap analyses, risk assessments, and migration planning activities.
• Translating and re-engineering control logic, sequences, interlocks, and protection schemes into ABB architectures while maintaining or enhancing plant performance.
• Developing cutover and commissioning strategies that minimize operational risk and plant outage durations.
• Leading site commissioning activities including system energization, loop checks, functional testing, protection testing, control tuning, startup support, and performance verification.
• Coordinating commissioning teams, subcontractors, and vendor specialists to ensure project objectives are achieved safely, on schedule, and to quality standards.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex hardware, software, networking, and system integration issues in field environments.
• Serving as the primary technical contact for customers during project execution, commissioning, and post-commissioning support.
• Delivering technical training, documentation, and system handover support to customer operations and maintenance teams.
• Supporting ABB's commitment to health, safety, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement.

You will join a supportive and high-performing team of controls and automation professionals, where collaboration, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence are valued. Together, we deliver complex power generation projects while helping each other grow and succeed.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8-12+ years of controls engineering experience within power generation environments.
• Proven experience implementing and commissioning DCS, PLC, or turbine control systems, including loop checks, functional testing, startup support, and performance verification.
• Strong understanding of industrial control system architectures, industrial networking, SCADA systems, HMI development, and instrumentation fundamentals.
• Ability to interpret P&IDs, electrical single-line diagrams, control narratives, and logic diagrams.
• Experience with ABB Ability™ Symphony Plus, System 800xA, AC 800M, Freelance, or ABB Advant platforms is highly desirable.
• Experience migrating GE, Siemens, Emerson, Honeywell, or Woodward control systems is advantageous.
• Familiarity with turbine control systems such as GE Mark V/VI/VIe, Siemens SPPA-T3000, and Woodward NetCon/MicroNet is beneficial.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound engineering decisions in demanding site environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead site activities and effectively engage with customers and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Willingness to travel regularly and undertake extended site assignments in line with project and commissioning schedules.
• Knowledge of industrial cybersecurity principles and standards such as NERC CIP is an advantage.
• ABB certifications, PMP certification, FE/PE licensure, or other relevant industry certifications are preferred.

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process, and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

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