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Qualified applicants will provide technical leadership for automation software, industrial communications, data collection, and operational reporting. Position is responsible for designing, developing, supporting, and improving SCADA, MES, historian, and industrial data systems.\nResponsibilities\nSCADA & MES Engineering: Lead application development, enhancement, and lifecycle support. Translate operational requirements into solutions; maintain graphics, tag, alarm, database, and deployment standards. Support commissioning, startup, upgrades, validation, and software-change review and approval.\nSystem Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Serve as an escalation resource for SCADA, MES, PLC, historian, database, communications, and reporting issues. Lead root-cause investigations; improve performance and reliability through corrective actions and tools that reduce recurring incidents.\nIndustrial Data Systems & Integration: Design and improve historian, reporting, and operational data systems. Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, dashboards, reports, and interfaces; integrate plant-floor and business platforms. Maintain data collection, equipment-context, naming, and quality standards.\nProgramming & Automation Development: Develop applications, scripts, utilities, and reusable tools using SQL, Python, VBA, and related technologies. Automate manual work and improve deployment, diagnostics, reporting, and monitoring using documentation, testing, version control, change management, and rollback planning.\nIndustrial Communications: Design, configure, integrate, and troubleshoot OPC UA, Modbus TCP, and related protocols across PLCs, SCADA, historians, MES, networks, gateways, and external interfaces. Maintain communication, naming, polling, and reliability standards.\nProficy Historian Support: Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot systems and collectors. Establish collection, compression, retention, and archive standards; resolve missing, stale, flatlined, or inconsistent data. Support trending and production analysis; coordinate upgrades, security, backups, and recovery with IT.\nIndustrial AI & Advanced Analytics: Evaluate opportunities and prepare validated data. Support proofs of concept and pilots with success metrics and implementation; integrate approved solutions under change-control and cybersecurity standards. Monitor business value and operational outcomes.\nReliability, Standards & Continuous Improvement: Improve availability, maintainability, and performance. Maintain engineering standards, design guidelines, procedures, and documentation; drive permanent corrective actions and project reviews. Promote standardization, scalability, and long-term supportability across facilities.\nLeadership & Collaboration: Provide guidance during projects, commissioning, and support. Coordinate vendors, contractors, and integrators with company standards. Communicate issues and recommendations across operations, maintenance, engineering, IT, and leadership.\nAfter-Hours Support: Participate in critical-system support and escalation. Provide remote or on-site incident response; communicate status and recovery plans. Document incidents, corrective actions, and long-term improvements.\nAdditional\nAbility to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.\nMust have regular and punctual attendance.\nPerform all other duties as assigned.\nQualifications\nSkills and Abilities\nProgressive experience in SCADA/HMI development required, knowledge of MES and manufacturing data systems highly desirable.\nProficient in automation and controls troubleshooting; working knowledge of PLC programming, diagnostics, and communications.\nSQL development and database troubleshooting required; experience with Python, VBA, or related scripting languages a plus.\nExperience with one or more of the following; OPC, Modbus, iFIX or historian platforms.\nDemonstrated Competencies\nAbility to communicate with all levels of employees in written or verbal form.\nAbility to solve and communicate complex problems.\nStrategic planning and organizational ability.\nProvide data driven results to lead and influence decisions.\nHigh level of ambition and motivation for success, be solutions oriented, results driven, and self-starter.\nPhysical Requirements\nOffice setting and industrial manufacturing setting.\nExperience: Minimum of 3 years relevant SCADA/HMI development. Experience in a manufacturing environment is desired.Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline; OR an equivalent combination of technical education and applicable automation, controls, SCADA, MES, or software engineering experience. 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