Description

Power the future of Nevada with us.  At NV Energy, we help sustain one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time—the modern electrical grid. Our teams keep Nevada’s power plants running safely, reliably, and efficiently so millions of customers can count on the energy they need every day.  

We’re looking for a Controls Engineer who’s energized by solving complex problems, uncovering root causes, and bringing clarity to the connection between physical equipment and digital systems. If you love the challenge of making critical infrastructure smarter, stronger, and more resilient, you’ll thrive here.  

Join a company that invests in innovation, values engineering excellence, and makes a direct impact on the communities we serve.  

Be part of the team that keeps Nevada’s lights on—and helps shape the future of energy.

Basic Purpose
Provides engineering design and support services for the electronics and software required to control and manage power generation, automatic generation control and real time energy management. Conceives, develops and implements unique solutions to controls problems. Provides technical direction and project support to plant or control center staff on controls matters.

Requirements

Essential Education, Skills, and Environment
Education and Work Experience
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field and 8 years industry experience as a practicing engineer, and must be a licensed PE. If no PE license, must have 10 years as a practicing engineer.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrated knowledge of:

• Control system logic, configuration and design control loops
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Computer networking, such as switches, firewalls, routers, and network ports (TCP, UDP)
• Experience with historian, predictive and performance monitoring systems and current smart field instrumentation
• Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
• Experience in generation plant processes or transmission and distribution processes.

Demonstrated skills such as:

• Analytical, problem solving, decision making, and interpersonal
• Process thinking
• Self-starting, time management, organizational
• Communication, oral and written, of technical issues
• Communication of technical issues to a non-technical audience

Equipment and Applications
PCs, word processing, spreadsheet, and database software.

Work Environment and Physical Demands
General office environment. May require work near moving parts, in outdoor weather conditions, and near extreme heat. Some exposure to loud noises is required. Some overnight travel is required.  

Note:
This position may be filled at a lower classification such as Senior Engineer I, Engineer II or Engineer I.