Principal Project Engineer

The Role

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

Your Impact

You will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS projects using the monarch platform, including planning / design / integration / testing /training/ and commissioning at site. A good understanding of utility use-cases (Electricity / Gas / Water / Renewables) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, integrate, test, and commission hardware and software requirements on customer systems.
• Provide technical sales support of state-of-the-art power systems applications for real-time control systems, including sales presentations and product demonstrations.
• Evaluate contract specifications and define project requirements through customer communication and communicate the requirements to other departments as necessary.
• Provide networking and system/application design.
• Perform hardware, software, and system installation, integration, and testing (such as FAT / SAT) for projects.
• Customize system, hardware, and network configuration based on customer requirements.
• Provide customer support and assistance per contract maintenance and warranty.
• Assist in creating training materials and project documentation as needed.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering or related field.
• 8 to 12 years of related experience.
• Strong technical background in automation and computers with at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following: power systems, electric utility operations/dispatch, real-time control systems, client/server applications, network communications, UNIX / Linux / Windows operating systems.
• Experience in software programming and scripting (Python, C / C++) is good to have.
• Experience with CAD, Visio or similar software.
• Experience in Database structures (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra)
• Experience with JSON, XML.
• Experience with common utility protocols (ICCP, DNP, IEC, MultiSpeak)
• Experience with OSI monarch control systems.
• Excellent organization, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong commitment to providing superior customer service.
• Ability to work on several projects in parallel in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability and flexibility to travel to domestic and international customer sites.