Senior Ignition Designer/SCADA Developer

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Ignition Designer / SCADA Developer to support and enhance an existing Ignition-based industrial automation platform used across multiple manufacturing facilities. The platform was originally developed by an external partner and is currently supporting several production sites, with a larger production-line supervision and monitoring initiative planned for the coming year.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Inductive Automation Ignition, industrial automation systems, SCADA/HMI development, and integration with shop-floor equipment and enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain applications built using the Ignition Platform (Perspective/Vision, Designer, Gateway).
• Support existing shop-floor applications, production dashboards, reporting solutions, and supervision systems.
• Develop and maintain HMI/SCADA screens, workflows, alarms, notifications, and data visualization components.
• Implement enhancements and change requests for existing facilities while ensuring system stability and performance.
• Integrate Ignition with PLCs, industrial devices, historians, MES, databases, and enterprise applications.
• Develop scripts and business logic using Python/Jython within the Ignition framework.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and provide timely resolution.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers, operations teams, technical leads, and global stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to the roadmap for the upcoming large-scale supervision-system project.
• Document technical designs, configurations, and support procedures.
• Mentor junior developers and help establish sustainable internal capability for Ignition development and support.

Required Experience & Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in industrial application development, SCADA, HMI, or manufacturing systems.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Ignition Platform development and configuration.
• Proficiency in Python/Jython scripting.
• Experience working with SQL databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with MES, Historian, IIoT, or Industry 4.0 solutions.
• Exposure to production-line monitoring and supervision systems.
• Ignition certification(s) from Inductive Automation.
• Experience working in global delivery and support models.
• Knowledge of ISA-95, ISA-88, or industrial automation standards.
• Strong stakeholder collaboration and communication skills.

Skills

HMI, Ignition, Jython, Python, SCADA