Automation System Engineer: ABB 800xA & SCADA Expert

VINCI Energies Oil & Gas; Sharjah; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Actemium Sharjah, part of Vasundhara Automation & Engineering Services under VINCI Energies Oil & Gas, seeks an experienced Automation System Engineer to deliver ABB System 800xA, AC800M, SCADA/DCS, and Substation projects from design through commissioning and support.

Role requires IEC 61850, industrial networking, redundancy, cybersecurity, virtualization, and brownfield migration expertise, with strong hands-on project delivery and customer-facing skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Instrumentation, Electronics Engineering.
• 5–8 years in industrial automation, SCADA/DCS, or substation automation, including at least 3 years with ABB 800xA and AC800M.
• End-to-end delivery of at least two ABB 800xA projects covering engineering, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and handover.
• Hands-on integration of IEDs, relays, PLCs, RTUs, and gateways using IEC 61850 and industrial protocols.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, test, and commission ABB System 800xA, AC800M, S800 I/O, controllers, servers, networks, and redundant architectures.
• Develop control logic, interlocks, sequences, reusable libraries, I/O databases, backups, and engineering records.
• Develop operator displays, faceplates, alarms, events, trends, historian interfaces, access control, and High Performance HMI functions.
• Engineer SAS, electrical SCADA, and PMS; integrate IEDs, relays, meters, switchgear, generators, transformers, PLCs, RTUs, drives, gateways, and third‑party systems.
• Perform IEC 61850 engineering including ICD/CID/SCD files, MMS, GOOSE, datasets, report control blocks, SOE, and NTP/PTP/IRIG-B time synchronization.
• Configure and troubleshoot IEC 101/104, DNP3, Modbus, Profinet, Profibus, EtherNet/IP, OPC, VLANs, fiber, PRP, HSR, MRP, RSTP, VPNs, and remote telemetry.
• Lead FAT, SAT, loop checks, commissioning, startup, migrations, shutdowns, cutovers, rollback, troubleshooting, and customer acceptance.
• Apply IEC 62443-aligned cybersecurity; support VMware/Hyper-V, backup, disaster recovery, licensing, lifecycle management, documentation, training, and warranty support.

Skills

ABB System 800xA

AC800M

Industrial automation

IEC 61850

Cybersecurity

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Instrumentation, Electronics Engineering

Tools

S800 I/O

Control Builder M

EtherNet/IP

Modbus TCP/RTU

VMware/Hyper-V

Job description

Actemium Sharjah, part of Vasundhara Automation & Engineering Services under VINCI Energies Oil & Gas, seeks an experienced Automation System Engineer to deliver ABB System 800xA, AC800M, SCADA/DCS, and Substation projects from design through commissioning and support.

Role requires IEC 61850, industrial networking, redundancy, cybersecurity, virtualization, and brownfield migration expertise, with strong hands-on project delivery and customer-facing skills.