Manager, Operations SCADA & OT
NineDot EnergyBrooklyn, NY
Full Time
Posted September 24, 2026
$160k - $175k
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Job Description
The Manager, Operations SCADA & OT serves as NineDot Energy’s hands-on technical owner for SCADA and supports Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure across its growing portfolio of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and distributed energy assets.
Key Responsibilities
- SCADA / Ignition Ownership
- Serve as NineDot’s internal technical owner and subject-matter expert for the Ignition SCADA platform.
- Develop and modify Ignition screens, dashboards, templates, tags, alarms, trends, historian configurations, and related functionality.
- Troubleshoot the full SCADA data path, including Ignition gateways, scripts, databases, device connections, field controllers, site networks, communications, and backend applications.
- Administer SCADA software, firmware, configurations, backups, licensing, upgrades, and overall system health.
- Develop fleet-wide standards for SCADA architecture, visualization, alarming, naming conventions, data structures, and documentation.
- Lead the transition from individual site systems to a standardized enterprise SCADA platform.
- Integrator Management & Commissioning
- Serve as NineDot’s technical lead for SCADA and controls integrators, maintaining sufficient internal expertise to independently troubleshoot and modify NineDot’s systems.
- Develop technical requirements, scopes of work, standards, and acceptance criteria for new projects.
- Review integrator designs and deliverables, including points lists, control narratives, programming, screens, and system configurations.
- Lead or oversee FAT, SAT, point-to-point testing, alarm verification, functional testing, and end-to-end SCADA commissioning.
- Coordinate integration between BESS/EMS platforms, PLCs/RTACs, meters, relays, utilities, and NineDot SCADA systems.
- Ensure commissioning deficiencies are documented and resolved prior to operational turnover.
- OT Networking, Telecommunications & Cybersecurity
- Own and standardize the OT network architecture and connectivity supporting NineDot’s SCADA environment, including IP addressing, remote access, network documentation, and communications with field equipment, utilities, and external systems.
- Configure and troubleshoot switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, cellular gateways, and other OT network equipment.
- Manage telecommunications requirements and vendors across the project lifecycle, including contracts, service levels, renewals, billing, connectivity, and vendor performance.
- Implement and maintain practical OT cybersecurity controls, including user permissions, secure remote and vendor access, network segmentation, firewall rules, and system configurations.
- Maintain OT asset and configuration inventories and coordinate patching, vulnerability remediation, backups, and recovery activities.
- Work with NineDot IT and external cybersecurity resources where IT and OT responsibilities intersect.
- O&M & Project Support
- Provide advanced technical support and root-cause analysis for SCADA, controls, communications, alarms, and other OT-related issues, using historian, alarm, and event data as appropriate.
- Develop diagnostic tools, dashboards, trends, and alarms that improve O&M effectiveness.
- Support project design reviews and incorporate operating lessons learned into future designs and fleet-wide technical standards.
- Train O&M personnel on SCADA functionality, alarms, controls, and basic troubleshooting.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Drives Results - Constantly achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Interpersonal Savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
- Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
- Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both success and failures as learning fodder
- Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
- Tech Savvy - Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, Automation Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience with SCADA, industrial controls, automation, OT, power generation, utilities, renewable energy, or similar industrial systems.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience developing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting SCADA systems.
- Experience developing HMI screens, tags, alarms, trends, historian configurations, scripts, and system integrations.
- Experience commissioning SCADA and controls systems, including point-to-point and functional testing.
- Working knowledge of industrial networking, TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, switches, routers, and telecommunications.
- Experience managing SCADA/controls integrators and technical vendors.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical one-lines, control schematics, network diagrams, points lists, and technical specifications.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and project-management skills.
- Hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition strongly preferred.
- Experience with Ignition Perspective and/or Vision, Gateway administration, Tag Historian, alarming, scripting, and database integration.
- Experience with Python/Jython, SQL, APIs, or similar technologies used in SCADA applications.
- Experience with Modbus TCP/RTU, DNP3, OPC UA, MQTT, or similar industrial protocols.
- Experience with PLCs, SEL RTACs, protective relays, utility meters, and other intelligent electronic devices.
- Experience with BESS, solar PV, distributed energy resources, substations, or inverter-based resources.
- Experience developing or supporting multi-site or enterprise SCADA architectures.
- Familiarity with industrial networking and OT cybersecurity best practices.
Benefits & Perks
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 5% employer match on your 401k retirement account
- 20 paid vacation days off, plus 7 sick days, 9 federal holidays and 3 personal floating holidays
- 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for both the primary and secondary caregiver within the first year of birth or adoption
- Wellness initiatives including a $1,000 stipend
- 16 volunteer hours plus two planned company-wide volunteer outings per year
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