Manufacturing Automation Engineer - SCADA

- Mid Level

Oakbrook Terrace, IL

10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Manufacturing Automation Engineer at Design Group, you will join a dynamic system integration and consulting company to provide cutting edge solutions to a wide range of industries. Our engineers work on projects to provide SCADA and/or industrial control system solutions to Fortune 100 companies in the Food and Beverage, Life Science, and Industrial market segments. The scope of work can include anything in the life cycle of a project starting from definition and selection of a platform to development/debugging and onsite startup. Frequently this team is working on first-of-a-kind solutions to solve real-world operational problems for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Working as an individual or in a team with other Manufacturing Automation Engineers.
• Working on large projects with other engineering disciplines such as greenfield design of a new manufacturing plant and all associated software system.
• Designing SCADA systems which may include databases and database interfaces, data handling & reporting, scripting (VB, python, etc.) and general programming.
• Onsite startup of systems that you designed and implemented.
• Understanding project requirements to develop/configure industrial control packages accordingly for use in manufacturing space.
• Understanding technical and operational constraints to create project development and commissioning plans.
• Managing multiple scopes of work in various phases simultaneously.
• Communicating with client stakeholders to understand scopes of work and deliverables.
• Understanding/skills with back-end computing infrastructure used in manufacturing (compute hardware, virtualization, OS’s, networking, databases, etc.) is a plus.

Requirements

• 3+ years of System Integration, SCADA / industrial control system development.
• Candidates with experience in the food and beverage or life science industries are preferred.
• Requires excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to simultaneously organize and successfully execute multiple project responsibilities is needed.
• Candidates must possess good communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to interact with all levels of management, clients, and vendors.
• Contractor and Construction management skills are also a plus.
• Requires the ability to mentor and train other less experienced engineers.
• Willing and able to travel as necessary for project requirements to include but not be limited to: project installation and start-up activities, client meetings, company sponsored meetings, training's, industry related seminars, forums, or conventions, etc.
• Proven experience with GE iFIX HMI/SCADA software, including system configuration, troubleshooting, and application development.
• Expertise in at least one of the following SCADA platforms: Ignition, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Aveva Wonderware System Platform, or GE.
• Familiarity with Rockwell PLC (ControlLogix, PLC5, SLC500).
• Strong SQL skills and experience with MES software (Sepasoft, Aveva) is a plus.