About the role

Job Description

Role: SCADA Engineer

Level: Manager

Location: Mumbai, Worli

Experience: 8 to 12 Years

Company Overview

Aditya Birla Renewables is an industry leader in clean energy solutions.

With over a decade of experience in executing large-scale and complex renewable energy projects across India, we are helping power the nation’s transition towards a greener tomorrow.

Our solutions cover the gamut of renewable power from solar, wind, and hybrid power to battery storage. Our state-of-the-art technology, high uptime, and our ability to provide the most competitive tariffs are some USPs that set us apart in the industry.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated lead for SCADA to join our O & M Team. The ideal candidate will ensure reliable plant monitoring, control, and data acquisition across Solar and Wind operating assets. The role maintains SCADA system uptime, resolves communication and data issues, and coordinates with OEMs for timely troubleshooting to support daily O&M activities. The SCADA Lead also works closely with the CMAS team to ensure data integrity, accurate event capture, and consistency between SCADA and central monitoring systems. Overall, the role enables quick fault visibility, supports remote diagnostics, and strengthens operational decision-making to maximise asset availability and generation.

Key Responsibilities

SCADA Uptime Management and CMAS Integration accountability.

Job Context

The SCADA Lead operates within the O&M function to ensure continuous monitoring and accurate data flow from Solar and Wind assets to support real-time operational decisions. The role requires close coordination with OEMs, site teams, and the CMAS team to maintain SCADA availability and uphold data integrity across all monitoring layers. As the central point for SCADA-related operational issues, the role must balance system reliability, regulatory compliance, and fast turnaround for fault visibility.

Major Challenges

Ensuring high SCADA uptime and communication reliability across diverse OEM systems and geographically dispersed sites.
Maintaining consistent data integrity between SCADA, CMAS, and grid-connected systems amidst frequent field-level communication disturbances.
Rapidly addressing alarms, data gaps, and integration issues while coordinating across multiple stakeholders (O&M, OEMs, CMAS, and SLDC/ RLDC).

Key Areas of Focus

SCADA System Availability & Reliability

Monitor SCADA uptime and ensure timely resolution of data or communication interruptions.
Coordinate with OEM SCADA teams for fault rectification and preventive maintenance.
Implement periodic health checks on servers, networks, gateways, and communication equipment.
Maintain documentation of system configurations, backups, and version controls for all sites.

Data Integrity & Alignment with CMAS

Conduct daily/weekly data validation between SCADA and CMAS platforms and resolve mismatches.
Work with the CMAS team to improve event mapping, alarm categorisation, and timestamp synchronisation.
Track and eliminate recurring data gaps, erroneous signals, or misconfigured tags.
Ensure accurate data availability for O&M KPIs, reporting, analytics, and regulatory submissions.

Alarm Management & Operational Support

Ensure alarms and events are correctly mapped, prioritised, and escalated for timely site action.
Support site O&M teams with remote diagnostics and quick interpretation of SCADA alarms.
Coordinate with OEMs to fix incorrect alarm logics, missing events, or false triggers.
Provide inputs to O&M for reducing machine downtime and improving generation through better alarm visibility.

Compliance & Stakeholder Coordination

Ensure compliance with RLDC/SLDC requirements (metering data, telemetry, FG/DSM visibility).
Coordinate with internal O&M, performance, IT, and cyber-security teams for SCADA-related dependencies.
Follow change management protocols for any SCADA/communication modification or interface upgrade.
Support audit requirements by maintaining logs, evidence, and documentation of SCADA operations.

Relationships

Internal (Other Functional Teams)

O & M (Site Team) - Daily: Work closely with the site team for Data collection & reporting purpose.
CMAS Team - Daily: Work closely with the team for budget number preparation & Performance review purpose.
Engineering & Technology - Monthly: Coordinate with E & T team for SCADA related issues or new development.

External

Vendor - As required: To deal with CMAS and SCADA related queries.
Client - As required: Report Preparation & Presentation / Remote Access requirements.

Key Deliverables

Document Name	Description
Business Head Review	Prepare the SCADA Status Summary & contribute to CMAS Report.
Daily MIS	Review the daily Plant performance by using CMAS portal and SCADA or DGR.
Chairman Review	Prepare the actual Performance report.
Daily Breakdown Analysis	Contribute to the Breakdown Analysis report including MTTR & MTBF.