The Lead SCADA Engineer or SCADA Manager is responsible for the overall strategic leadership, design, integration, delivery, commissioning, and operational compliance of SCADA, IT, and Cybersecurity systems across Elecnor’s portfolio of large-scale renewable energy and grid-connection projects. The role ensures that SCADA and automation infrastructure complies with EPC project specifications, Generator Performance Standards (GPS), AEMO requirements, TNSP/DNSP interface guidelines, and cybersecurity standards.

Leveraging deep technical expertise in industrial control systems, power systems, and network communication, the SCADA Manager leads and builds a high-performing SCADA engineering team, manages specialist subcontractors, and coordinates cross-functionally across tendering, engineering, construction, commissioning, and O&M.; The position plays a critical role in mitigating technical project risks, managing supplier deliverables, and ensuring seamless integration between power plant controllers (PPC), OEMs, and market dispatch systems.

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Key Responsibilities:

Manage a dedicated SCADA engineering team to handle multiple simultaneous renewable energy projects across the portfolio.

Provide leadership, mentorship, and line management to SCADA engineers, setting performance expectations, allocating deliverables, and managing resource assignments.

Foster a safety-focused, collaborative,



and continuous improvement culture within the team.

Share technical knowledge and standardise operational and design methodologies across the broader Engineering department.

Regularly report portfolio-wide SCADA, IT, and cybersecurity progress, risks, and milestones to executive management and key project stakeholders.

Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of SCADA, IT, and Cybersecurity basis of design, control logics, block diagrams, and conceptual architectures for project tendering and execution.

Ensure SCADA and Communications design aligns seamlessly with other engineering disciplines, power systems modelling, EPC requirements, and grid connection parameters.

Identify interfacing requirements and integration points between plant SCADA systems, OEM equipment (inverters, trackers, substations, weather stations, PQMs), market dispatch systems (AEMO EMMS, Energy Forecasting), and network service providers (TNSPs/DNSPs).

Review, assess, and approve engineering calculations, signal lists, HMI screen arrangements, control algorithms, and technical documentation produced internally or by 3rd parties.

Define areas of expertise requiring 3rd-party engagement; prepare SCADA, Communications, and Cybersecurity Requests for Proposals (RFPs).





Interface with suppliers and subcontractors during tendering to select optimal systems compliant with project budget, functionality, and standards.

Support Contract Management in drafting, negotiating, and placing contracts and purchase orders for SCADA, CCTV, Market Dispatch, and IT sub-systems.

Manage subcontractor delivery programs, monitor deliverable schedules, track progress milestones, and approve subcontractor payment claims.

Establish and maintain robust quality assurance controls for hardware and software procurement

Lead SCADA and IT systems commissioning strategy in close collaboration with the Commissioning Manager, Site Team, and O&M; department.

Oversee Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and End-to-End (E2E) signal testing with AEMO and TNSPs.

Support the Grid Connection team during R1 registration, hold point testing, and R2 generator compliance validation testing (FCAS, voltage/frequency control).

Create and oversee Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) and Inspection and Test Checklists (ITCs) for quality management during testing.

Act as technical escalation point for critical troubleshooting of SCADA and IT system issues to minimise energy generation loss and downtime

Ensure all SCADA and IT designs incorporate "Safety in Design" principles and comply with relevant health, safety, and environmental legislation.

Maintain comprehensive quality control standards across all lifecycle phases, conducting periodic site visits and factory inspections.

Oversee the accurate handover of system documentation, operational user manuals, as-built drawings, and red-mark records to the O&M; team

Propose and work on project’s systems and delivery improvements.

Qualifications and Experie

📌 Lead SCADA Eng (Brisbane)
🏢 Elecnor Australia
📍 Brisbane