# SCADA/MES Software Engineer

Overview We are looking for a motivated person to develop and maintain SCADA/MES systems. 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. Responsibilities SCADA & 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. System 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. Industrial 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

- **Id**: 4024102
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/empirical-foods-scadames-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Enterprise Apps
- **Role family**: Enterprise Apps
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dakota Dunes, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:16:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:16:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4933
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Meat & Poultry

## Company

- **Id**: 3860879
- **Name**: Empirical Foods
- **Domain**: empiricalfoods.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/empirical-foods>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Technologies

- **OPC UA** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T16:16:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T17:58:50Z

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