What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Controls Engineer - e-Storage - US position at Canadian Solar Inc.?
At Canadian Solar, our vision is to make lives better by bringing electricity powered by the sun to millions of people worldwide. As a leading manufacturer of solar panels, inverters, and energy storage solutions, we've been an industry front-runner since our founding in 2001. Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in all parts of our organization as we navigate the complexities of a booming industry.
Throughout Canadian Solar's subsidiaries, e-Storage, Recurrent Energy, MSS and CSI Solar Co., we invest in our employees' growth. Our training programs and promotional opportunities ensure we all can continue to learn. We understand the importance of work-life balance and provide various flexible work options to support our employees' well-being. Join our team to "Make the Difference" by creating a lasting positive impact on the world and the communities where we operate.
The Sr. Controls Engineer will lead the implementation of BESS capable of ultra-fast response to dispatch commands and grid supply variations. This candidate is familiar with power systems, utility generation, protection, and transmission systems, as well as modern industrial networks and utility communication protocols.
Key Responsibilities:
Canadian Solar offers a competitive salary plus fully comprehensive benefits and performance bonus package based on an annual objective achievement. Our generous benefits package includes a 401(k) Retirement Plan, medical/dental/life/disability program, vacation, and sick days.
Canadian Solar Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Throughout Canadian Solar's subsidiaries, e-Storage, Recurrent Energy, MSS and CSI Solar Co., we invest in our employees' growth. Our training programs and promotional opportunities ensure we all can continue to learn. We understand the importance of work-life balance and provide various flexible work options to support our employees' well-being. Join our team to "Make the Difference" by creating a lasting positive impact on the world and the communities where we operate.
The Sr. Controls Engineer will lead the implementation of BESS capable of ultra-fast response to dispatch commands and grid supply variations. This candidate is familiar with power systems, utility generation, protection, and transmission systems, as well as modern industrial networks and utility communication protocols.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical contract exhibits: Drafting and negotiating fast response BESS plant controller technical requirements.
- Managing stakeholders, utilities, and suppliers of fast response controllers for design and deliverables
- Verifying testing and commissioning of the new advanced BESS plant controllers
- Mentor team members and supervise work processes to ensure development of high-quality deliverables to meet timeline and budget commitments.
- Develop new tools, implement processes, provide feedback, and work with other stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement of the technology/engineering/ delivery value stream.
- Must have domain experience in solar PV or battery energy storage the Digital-Twin software Engineer must be proficient in the following:
- Experience with power grid, power generation and/or renewable integration control.
- Experience with utility market applications.
- Experience with DigSilent PowerFactory, EMTP or other powers systems modeling tools
- Expertise in model-based control SW development
- Expertise in Git workflow
- Experience with Linux.
- Scripting (Python,Batch)
- Relationship & time series database
- Write automated tests
- Jupyter, Deepnote
- Experience with Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively to internal and external audiences.
- 12 years’ experience in renewable specific to energy storage.
- A go-getter professional with a can-do attitude - setting aggressive, measurable goals and objectives for him/herself and prepared to be measured against them.
- A dynamic professional with the ability to positively interact and collaborate with a diverse group of people at all levels and disciplines and capable of standing in front of key clients, thinking on his/her feet, and making sound decisions within compressed timelines.
- Comfortable in a collaborative and fluid environment.
- An excellent time manager, able to balance multiple projects and prioritize a broad variety of issues, initiatives, and objectives concurrently.
- Discipline to be productive in an Agile environment.
- Willingness to learn and work with tools that are outside the traditional stack, such as Anvil, Deepnote, and others.
- A creative thinker: need to be able to come up with novel solutions to established. problems and evaluate their business benefit.
- Business-savvy: need to be able to interact with both business specs and technical specs.
- Travel: up to 25%, including international travel.
- Has 8 years of experience developing control software, with a track record of successful production deployments.
- Has a degree in engineering that can relate to our industry (Electrical will be preferred)
Canadian Solar offers a competitive salary plus fully comprehensive benefits and performance bonus package based on an annual objective achievement. Our generous benefits package includes a 401(k) Retirement Plan, medical/dental/life/disability program, vacation, and sick days.
Canadian Solar Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
