Sr. SCADA Engineer, Environmental
About the role
Tesla is seeking an experienced Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Engineer to design, develop, and continuously improve a SCADA system that monitors, records, and visualizes environmental process data. This role will help ensure Tesla maintains compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations while tracking, recording, and visualizing Key Performance Indicator metrics. We are advancing SCADA engineering to find innovative applications for data and create sustainable solutions to accelerate the world’s transition to renewable energy.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of a scalable SCADA system to monitor, visualize, and record operational parameters and events required by environmental permits and internal policies/initiatives.
- Design Ignition Perspective projects to automate and improve environmental operations, from data collection to visualization and report generation.
- Partner with factory shop engineering teams and other disciplines to achieve SCADA integration on a standard platform.
- Collaborate with environmental engineers and stakeholders to transform requirements into automated data collection pipelines.
- Work with MySQL databases and other data storage solutions to create environmental metric reports and dashboards.
- Evaluate cross-functional data related to waste, water, hazardous materials, energy, and emissions.
- Create and troubleshoot Python scripts, SQL queries, OPC connection issues, and network issues within Ignition and other platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Automation Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience developing a SCADA system for process data recording and visualization for internal customers.
- Detail-oriented and highly motivated to achieve and maintain code and documentation.
- Ability to integrate and communicate effectively across multiple disciplines.
Skills
- Advanced to expert knowledge in Ignition (Inductive Automation) development with Perspective module.
- PLC experience.
- Data visualization, analysis, and dashboard creation.
- Python, SQL, and JSON.
Ignition Core/Gold Certification would be highly desirable.
Benefits
- Medical plans with $0 payroll deduction options.
- Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution options.
- Company-paid Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan.
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits.
- Company-paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability insurance (90-day waiting period).
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Sick and vacation time (flex time for salaried positions, accrued hours for hourly positions) and paid holidays.
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources.
- Voluntary benefits, including critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance.
- Weight loss and tobacco cessation programs.
- Tesla Babies program.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employee discounts and perks program.
Pay
Expected compensation: $100,000 - $228,000 annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits. Pay offered may vary depending on market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include other elements dependent on the position offered.