Manager - Testing & Commissioning - PPC Specialist

Position overview

Engineering review and integration

• Review PPC control philosophy, functional design, signal lists, data mapping, and control hierarchies.
• Review and recommend PPC architecture changes to meet grid codes and avoid latency; coordinate FAT for PPC logic and interfaces.
• Configure PPC setpoints, modes, and priorities; integrate solar inverters, WTGs, BESS, STATCOM, substation protection, and metering.
• Ensure field-to-PPC and SCADA data integrity.

Testing, commissioning, and grid acceptance

• Perform open-loop and closed-loop testing of active/reactive power, voltage, ramp-rate, curtailment, and dispatch controls.
• Validate communications loss and fallback modes, signal accuracy and latency, control-loop stability, PPC-SCADA-EMS communications, redundancy, and failover.
• Support AGC testing with the grid operator; conduct frequency response, PCC voltage control, and contingency-event tests.
• Support grid audits, mock runs, and final sign-off.

Troubleshooting and handover

• Troubleshoot power mismatch, oscillatory or unstable control, communication delays or data loss, incorrect asset generation allocation, and grid-event non-compliance.
• Identify control-logic corrections to prevent plant oscillations.
• Prepare commissioning reports, upload final configuration backups and change records, train O&M and control-room teams, and support early operational stabilization.

Minimum qualifications and competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Power, or Control Engineering.
• 8–15 years of experience in PPC or plant-level control commissioning.
• Grid compliance and AGC testing experience is mandatory.
• Deep understanding of power system control and grid integration; strong knowledge of renewable hybrid plant behavior.
• Expertise in communication protocols such as IEC-104, Modbus, and IEC-61850.

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