Ignition Engineer

At JSat, an E Tech Group Company, joining our team means joining a group of passionate and forward-thinking experts. We’re one of the largest engineering and system integration firms in the United States providing value for our clients through IT automation and control solutions for more than 30 years to the Life Sciences, Mission Critical, Metals & Mining, Warehousing & Distribution, and CPG/Food & Beverage industries. Our national scale allows us to help our clients develop and implement standardized solutions at any of their facilities regardless of physical location or the local resources available at that site.  

• Interact with client personnel to identify and analyse continuous improvement through automation upgrades. Manage, document, and implement these upgrades through changes control procedures.
• Execute capital projects including Control system software development, Control system hardware design, Network design, MES system implementation, Recipe management, User requirement specification development, Process equipment installations, SOP development and training on Automation Systems.
• On-Site Commissioning / Remote Support based on project requirement. Should be ready to travel internationally as per the project requirement.  
• SCADA/Historian – Ignition Core Certification, working knowledge of executing Ignition Projects, Ignition Advanced certification will be an advantage.
• HMI/SCADA design and development, Creating, and updating tag database as per project requirement. Knowledge of OPC servers (e.g. Kepware) will be an advantage.
• Manage automation projects through effective financial and schedule control.

• Experience in providing the network architecture for connectivity of PLC/DCS/OPC/HMI for software integration.
• Experience on communication protocols such as – OPC-DA/UA, MQTT, Modbus RTU & Modbus TCP/IP, Industrial ethernet, Profibus, ProfiNet
• 5+ years’ experience designing, implementing, and supporting manufacturing automation solutions.

• 5+ years’ Ignition / Sepasoft
• Ignition Core Certified / Gold Certified
• Hands on experience in Python
• Previous experience in delivering L1/L2/L3 integration as well as manufacturing IT applications.
• Experience in Control Systems such as Allen Bradley/Delta V/ Foxboro/ Siemens/ Honeywell.
• Experience with SCADA, MES, and database systems are required and any experience with computer system validation is a plus.