SCADA Engineer - Operations

About the role

We’re a team of friends bound together by a mission to preserve our planet for future generations through innovative energy solutions and modern infrastructure. Intersect develops, constructs, and operates the most ambitious power and data center infrastructure in the country by co-locating industrial demand with dedicated gas and renewable power generation.

Intersect was acquired by Google in March 2026 and operates as an independent subsidiary. We are developing and constructing multiple gigawatts of energy and data center projects in the U.S., enabling more data center and generation capacity to come online faster. We’re on an aggressive growth trajectory and looking for people hungry to tackle the largest energy challenges on the planet.

Location & Team Gatherings

We are currently looking for candidates located within 60 miles of the listed location above.

We connect as a team at our Team Week experiences four times a year and at our recently established Hub locations - SF Bay Area, NYC Metro Area, NY; Denver, CO; Austin, TX; Calgary, AB; and Toronto, ON.

About this role

As a SCADA Engineer on Intersect's Operations team, you'll provide hands-on support for the real-time operational control systems, telemetry pipelines, and SCADA infrastructure that power our utility-scale clean energy fleet, working closely with and in support of the Control Room. You'll be hands-on day-to-day — maintaining systems, adjusting control parameters, and troubleshooting issues — to ensure high availability across our multi-tech assets, while supporting critical ISO dispatch interfaces, field hardware integration, and OT network security. Partnering closely with trading, engineering, and field operations, you'll play a key role in supporting fleet uptime and operational reliability.

Team overview

This team plays a critical role in advancing Intersect's mission to accelerate the clean energy transition. The Operations team manages, monitors, and optimizes Intersect's growing fleet of energy assets around the clock. Joining this team means driving operational resilience, supporting enterprise SCADA standards, and collaborating with top-tier technical talent dedicated to long-term reliability and performance.

What You'll Do

Provide Hands-On SCADA Support and Maintenance

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Maintain and troubleshoot Ignition SCADA HMIs, alarm modules, and control workflows for utility-scale solar PV and BESS facilities, including hands-on control parameter adjustments and logic fixes

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Diagnose and resolve plant communications and control system issues under time-sensitive conditions

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Support and extend the Canary Labs high-speed time-series historian for real-time archiving, performance trending, and operational analytics

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Ensure high system availability and rapid root-cause analysis, providing as-needed escalation support for forced outages, trips, and critical telemetry loss