SCADA Specialist/Technician - BCRUA Water Treatment Plant

About the role

The City of Round Rock and the BCRUA are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a SCADA Specialist/Technician at the BCRUA water treatment plant located in Cedar Park. This role is essential to ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of BCRUA’s water treatment facilities. Depending on qualifications and experience, the position may be filled as either the certified SCADA Specialist or Technician. Ideal candidates will bring strong technical skills and a commitment to operational excellence. If you're looking for an opportunity to contribute to growth and success, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities

• SCADA Technician duties:
  • Calibrating equipment, performing overall maintenance and correcting problems with equipment;
  • Providing technical support;
  • Serving as first responder to outages and equipment failures;
  • Coordinating work;
  • Documenting work activities;
  • Programs SCADA by developing new code; querying the historian; editing existing programs; archiving programs; works with software such as Ignition Vision, INSQL, and Modicon Concept;
  • Repairs and maintains SCADA by diagnosing problems using schematic drawings, monitoring software, and digital test equipment; repairs, replaces and reprograms by diagnosis; performs routine maintenance on SCADA system components; performs visual and machine aided inspections, installs and inspects weatherization; work requires climbing of storage tanks and work performed in confined spaces;
  • Builds SCADA by assembling parts to form a working product; tests assembly prior to deployment; deploys, assembles, and integrates field and human machine interface;
  • Maintains UPS equipment by diagnosing software to measure uninterruptable power supply capacity; replaces batteries if capacity is low; replaces UPS if unit fails;
  • Calibrates instruments by using test equipment; performs periodic calibrations to verify monitoring instruments are within limits; directs others to perform calibrations.
• SCADA Specialist duties:
  • Provides SCADA system support by implementing programming modifications, developing new installations, troubleshooting control systems and related components and participating in project design and execution;
  • Develops, updates, and maintains all aspects of the SCADA system including programming and upgrading of computers and software, testing, programming, troubleshooting and maintenance of the systems;
  • Installs, enhances, troubleshoots, calibrates and repairs systems and/or equipment;
  • Assists with engineering design, technical review and installations of CIP projects related to SCADA;
  • Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of the database system that collects, reports and archives all of the data required by the various regulatory agencies; produce internal and external reports;
  • Maintains UPS equipment by diagnosing software to measure uninterruptable power supply capacity; replace batteries if capacity is below acceptable percentage;
  • Calibrates instruments; uses test equipment, performs periodic calibrations to verify and document that process monitoring equipment is within limits.

Requirements

• SCADA Technician:
  • Two-year Associate's degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school;
  • At least one (1) year of experience as a SCADA technician or in a similar position.
• SCADA Specialist:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field;
  • Additional work experience may be substituted on a year-by-year basis;
  • At least two (2) years of experience as a SCADA technician or in a similar position.

Qualifications

• Class C Texas Driver's License or ability to obtain before employment;
• Obtain Surface Water C or Water Distribution Operator C from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality within two (2) years of employment.

Pay

• SCADA Technician hiring range: $54,080 to $66,040 depending on experience;
• SCADA Specialist hiring range: $64,480 to $78,000 depending on experience;