Key skills
SCADA platformsIgnition platformIgnition Core CertificationVisionPerspective moduleReporting moduleScriptingIndustrial control schemesPLC logicLadder LogicSequential Function ChartsStructured TextFunction Block DiagramsSCADA migrationDatabase managementSQL ServerOraclePostgreSQLIT/OT infrastructurePLC programmingREST/Web API integrationMQTTMiddleware integrationAlarm notification designData historian systemsDockerGitAgile/ScrumProfessional maturityreceiveapply constructive feedbackCustomer-facing communicationCSQLAgileScrum
About this role
Flexware Innovation is a company that partners with manufacturers to guide their strategy and execute solutions in industrial controls and manufacturing systems. The role of an IA&C Systems Engineer involves building SCADA solutions using the Ignition platform and solving complex problems to provide innovative and lasting solutions for clients.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to task-switch between 3+ concurrent projects effectively
- High attention to detail while maintaining awareness of the broader system impact (past, present, and future implications of design decisions)
- Continuous awareness of and highlighting opportunities to develop tools and automation to improve personal and team efficiency
- Demonstrates professional maturity, including the ability to receive and apply constructive feedback
- Comfortable participating in customer-facing meetings
- Ability to travel up to 20% and support up to 2 weeks on-site during commissioning periods
Requirements:
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with SCADA/HMI platforms including IA's Ignition platform
- Ignition Core Certification
- Vision and Perspective module experience, including responsive multi-device screen design
- Reporting module experience
- Strong scripting skills within and outside Ignition
- Understanding of common industrial control schemes, including ability to read PLC logic: Ladder Logic, Sequential Function Charts (SFC), Structured Text, Function Block Diagrams
- Experience with SCADA migrations to Ignition (e.g., Wonderware, iFIX, ICONICS, FactoryTalk View)
- Ability to produce clear, detailed technical documentation for system design and implementation
- Database experience (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Working knowledge of IT/OT infrastructure and troubleshooting concepts
- Ability to task-switch between 3+ concurrent projects effectively
- High attention to detail while maintaining awareness of the broader system impact (past, present, and future implications of design decisions)
- Continuous awareness of and highlighting opportunities to develop tools and automation to improve personal and team efficiency
- Demonstrates professional maturity, including the ability to receive and apply constructive feedback
- Comfortable participating in customer-facing meetings
- Ability to travel up to 20% and support up to 2 weeks on-site during commissioning periods
- Please note that we are not interviewing candidates that require sponsorship now or in the future
- PLC programming experience
- Prior development experience in other SCADA platforms (Wonderware, iFIX, ICONICS, FactoryTalk View, etc.)
- Ignition Gold Certification
- REST/Web API integration experience (GET/POST, etc.)
- Experience with Ignition WebDev module
- MQTT experience, including platforms such as HiveMQ and CirrusLink
- Middleware integration experience, including understanding of where it fits in architecture and how to implement (e.g., Kepware, Boomi)
- Alarm notification pipeline design and implementation
- Data historian systems (OSIsoft PI, Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian, etc.)
- Experience with Docker and Git, and contributing to shared codebases/frameworks in an Agile/Scrum environment