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About AES Corporation
AES Corporation is a global energy company that owns and operates power plants and provides energy storage solutions, delivering affordable and sustainable energy through a diverse portfolio of generation assets. Industry: Electric Power Generation & Energy
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The Senior Manager, Advanced Grid and Controls Solutions leads a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for defining, evaluating, validating, and deploying advanced grid-integration and control solutions. This role involves managing a portfolio of projects across renewable, battery energy storage, hybrid, and microgrid applications. Key responsibilities include setting technical roadmaps, establishing repeatable engineering methods, and providing leadership during contract negotiations and project execution. The position requires expertise in grid-forming and grid-following inverter controls, plant power and energy-management systems, and advanced power-electronics applications. Candidates must utilize tools and methodologies such as PSCAD for electromagnetic-transient modeling, controller hardware-in-the-loop testing, and power hardware-in-the-loop testing. The work addresses complex technical problems including weak-grid performance, islanding, black start, and coordinated operation of multiple generation and storage resources to ensure reliable grid integration.
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on grid integration, advanced controls, and microgrid solutions.
Set the team’s technical roadmap, annual priorities, and operating model in alignment with business strategies.
Direct the development of control philosophies, functional requirements, and integrated plant-control architectures.
Oversee EMT studies and model-based designs using platforms like PSCAD to assess system stability and performance.
Define and manage hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL/PHIL) testing programs to validate controls before site deployment.
Provide technical leadership during contract negotiations and project execution for renewable and storage assets.
Support operations by diagnosing complex grid interactions and leading root-cause analysis for performance issues.
Translate grid codes and utility requirements into implementable equipment specifications and engineering standards.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems engineering, controls engineering, or a closely related field.
Master’s degree or PhD in power systems, controls, power electronics, or a related discipline (preferred).
Substantial engineering experience in utility-scale renewable generation, battery energy storage, inverter-based resources, plant controls, microgrids, or adjacent power-system applications.
Demonstrated people-management experience, including work planning, prioritization, coaching, performance management, and development of technical professionals.
Strong knowledge of renewable and battery energy storage plant controls, inverter controls, grid-forming technology, plant power controllers, energy-management systems, and grid-integration fundamentals.
Experience with technology evaluation, technical diligence, model review, test planning, results interpretation, and translation of findings into project or equipment decisions.
Working knowledge of EMT analysis and PSCAD-based studies; ability to review study methods, assumptions, model behavior, results, and tuning recommendations.
Control Theory
System Dynamics
MATLAB
Simulink
Python
Mechatronics
Modeling
Simulation
Integration
Testing
Verification
data-analysis
Electromechanical Systems
SCADA
BMS
BAS
EPMS
Ignition SCADA
BACnet/IP
Modbus TCP
OPC UA
MQTT
OT Networking
Historian
Commissioning
Root Cause Analysis
System Integration
Telemetry Aggregation
Industrial Control Systems