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.
• Technically 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.
• Deliverables You Will Develop, Review, or Support
• Integration of all manufacturing equipment, building management, utility systems, and QC lab interfaces to the selected SCADA system
• HMI screens, vision inspection programs, tag databases, MES/SCADA transaction lists, network IP lists, password inventories, and system backups.
• Platform evaluation decision record, tag/UDT standard, alarm philosophy, HMI style guide, tag databases, and system backups.
• Supervisory server topology and redundancy design, historian pipeline architecture, and screen acceptance records.
• Responsibilities and tasks outlined are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the business

Qualifications