We are hiring a senior-level engineer to own the Ignition platform across our manufacturing environment. This role is focused on Ignition and is accountable for standards, architecture, reliability, and scalable delivery of plant dashboards/HMIs and operational data collection. This role provides internal technical ownership, governance, and long-term supportability of the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Own Ignition gateway architecture, configuration standards, backup/restore approach, and lifecycle (upgrades, redundancy, environments).
- Develop and standardize plant dashboards/HMIs (Perspective/Vision) using reusable templates, UDTs, and consistent tag models.
- Integrate Ignition with plant-floor systems (PLCs/devices via OPC UA and/or MQTT where applicable) and with databases for operational reporting.
- Establish engineering discipline: versioning, release practices, testing/validation patterns, documentation, and incident/root-cause practices.
- Monitor and improve platform reliability and performance; implement logging/alerting and operational runbooks.
- Partner with OT Automation, MES, Data/UNS, and Cyber teams to ensure safe, supportable integration patterns and clear ownership boundaries.
- Manage and review third-party Ignition work for alignment to standards and long-term maintainability.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in industrial automation/SCADA/MES/IIoT environments with significant hands-on Ignition delivery.
- Strong experience with Ignition gateway configuration and project delivery; building HMIs/dashboards in Perspective and/or Vision.
- Experience integrating to PLCs/devices and industrial data sources (e.g., OPC UA; MQTT familiarity is a plus).
- Strong SQL skills for working with operational data stores (queries, performance, schemas used for reporting).
- Proven ability to lead technical standards, improve reliability, and mentor/guide other engineers and integrators.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with multi-site SCADA standardization and rollout programs.
- Experience with MES integrations (e.g., Plex) and/or data platforms (e.g., Snowflake/Fabric/UNS patterns).
- Ignition certification (Core/Gold) or comparable demonstrated expertise.
- Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity practices for SCADA (role-based access, certificates/SSL, segmentation alignment).
You should be proficient in:
- SCADA Experience
- SQL Administration Experience
Machines & technologies you'll use:
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- SCADA
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) (Allen Bradley, Fanuc, Siemens)
- Industrial Robot (Kawasaki)
