Sr. SCADA/HMI Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain communications between PLCs/HMIs and higher level systems (MES/SCADA).
• Own tag/UDT standards, alarm configuration, historian data acquisition, faceplates, and store-and-forward reliability on the selected platform.
• Supporting SCADA tags, transactions, alarming, and data acquisition as required.
• Hold screen and configuration acceptance authority for every OEM and integrator-delivered HMI/SCADA deliverable, verified at Factory and Site Acceptance Tests.
• Serve as a senior-level escalation point for diagnosing complex SCADA, historian, and plant-data acquisition issues.
• Design and maintain OEE, downtime data, and SCADA/Plant status interfaces increase visibility and actionable decision-making throughput, safety, and reliability.
• Own alarm management per ISA-18.2: philosophy authorship, the rationalization program run jointly with operations, and alarm performance KPI reporting.
• Techically lead the SCADA/batch/historian platform evaluation - requirements, weighted criteria, structured proofs-of-concept on pilot infrastructure, and a defensible decision record
• Stand up SCADA/historian environments ahead of site acceptance testing and direct system-integrator surge staff executing configuration under your standards.
• Define historian collection standards with the Manufacturing Data & MES Engineering so contextualization needs drive collection design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in electrical engineering, Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field with 7+ years of direct industrial automation and SCADA/HMI engineering experience.
• Strong hands on experience programming and commissioning Siemens, Allen Bradley/Rockwell, Ignition HMIs and/or PLCs.
• Architecture-level ownership (not screen-building alone) on at least one major platform - Ignition, FactoryTalk View/Optix, AVEVA System Platform, or comparable-plus platform-evaluation judgment: licensing models, redundancy architectures, and openness of data access assessed on evidence rather than familiarity.
• ISA-18.2 alarm management (philosophy authorship, rationalization facilitation, performance metrics) and high-performance HMI design practice.
• Proficiency with Ethernet/IP, Profinet, EtherCAT, OPCUA, and similar industrial communication standards.
• Emphasis on OPC UA and MQTT/Sparkplug plant-data interfaces and historian/time-series collection at scale.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in heavy industrial, greenfield, chemical, or metallurgical manufacturing environments.
• Hands-on depth across two or more major SCADA platforms in production, and prior platform selection, migration, or consolidation leadership.
• Redundant / high-availability SCADA deployment in a 24/7 manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with Python, C++, or other highlevel languages for automation or data analytics.
• Familiarity with REST APIs or other enterprise software level integration methods.
• Experience in regulated industries such as Defense, Aerospace, or Automotive.