Power Plant Control System Administrator

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join Siemens Energy as a Power Plant Control System Administrator and help ensure the reliable, secure, and efficient operation of critical power generation assets. You will combine system administration expertise with hands-on field service activities, supporting advanced automation and control systems both remotely and on-site. From troubleshooting complex technical issues to commissioning upgrades and supporting customers across Italy and abroad, you will play a key role in maintaining operational excellence. If you enjoy solving technical challenges, working directly with customers, and building expertise in cutting-edge power plant technologies, this opportunity is for you.

How You'll Make an Impact

• You will administer, monitor, and maintain power plant control systems and infrastructure, ensuring high availability, cybersecurity, and reliable performance.
• You will perform installations, upgrades, system extensions, migrations, backups, and recovery activities both remotely and at customer sites.
• You will provide technical support and troubleshooting on T3000, WinCC OA, PCS 7, WinCC, and TIA Portal platforms, helping customers maintain safe and efficient operations.
• You will execute preventive and corrective field service activities, including inspections, fault diagnosis, testing, commissioning, and technical reporting.
• You will collaborate with customers, engineering teams, and service specialists to deliver technical solutions, coordinate service activities, and support modernization projects.

What You Bring

• You hold a degree or technical diploma in Automation, Electrical, Electronic, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• You have experience in industrial automation, power plant control systems, system administration, or field service activities.
• You have knowledge of one or more of the following platforms: T3000, WinCC OA, PCS 7, WinCC, or TIA Portal. Programming and scripting skills in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and C++ scripting are considered advantages.
• You are familiar with Windows environments, networking, virtualization, backup solutions, and cybersecurity concepts.
• You are fluent in Italian and have a good level of English. Knowledge of German is considered an advantage.
• You are available for short- and medium-term business travel and participation in a scheduled H24 on-call rotation.

About the Team

You will join Siemens Energy's service organization, supporting customers in maintaining reliable, efficient, and secure power plant operations. The team combines deep technical expertise with a strong customer focus, delivering field service, troubleshooting, commissioning, modernization, and system administration support across Italy and internationally. Working closely with engineering specialists and customers, the team helps maximize plant availability and operational performance. Continuous learning, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing are key elements of the team's culture. As part of this environment, you will develop your expertise while contributing to the global energy transition.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With +100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion, and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character—no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

The total compensation package for this position, including both fixed and variable components, ranges between € 45.000 – € 65.000 gross per year.

Here are examples of the rewards and benefits Siemens Energy offers:

Opportunities to work with a global team

Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects

Medical benefits

Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave

Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

Access to a variety of employee resource groups