Plant Controller Project Lead

Leidos Engineering has an opportunity for an experienced Project Lead to direct the engineering design of a high-profile plant controller and plant-wide SCADA program for a large behind-the-meter hybrid energy facility in the ERCOT market. The facility combines utility-scale wind and solar generation with a mission-critical AI data center load, connected to the grid through dual 345 kV points of interconnection. The Project Lead will work alongside the Project Manager and program leadership within Leidos Energy. You will be the technical owner of the design: directing a multidisciplinary team of controls, SCADA/HMI, OT cybersecurity, and power systems studies engineers and specialty subcontractors, integrating their work into a coordinated design, and serving as the lead technical voice to the EPC client, equipment vendors, and the owner’s engineers from detailed design through commissioning. About the Project: The site-level plant controller is the real-time orchestration layer for the facility, issuing validated setpoints, constraints, and priorities to downstream asset controllers while respecting vendor-certified control logic. Its objectives are to: Define and enforce a reliable, predictable operating envelope for the mission-critical data center load Dispatch wind and solar generation to regulate voltage, frequency, and apparent power at the dual points of interconnection in line with ERCOT and interconnection requirements Coordinate with wind and solar power plant cont