Automation Systems Engineer – Ignition SCADA Expert

Proconex; Limerick (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical

401K match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Proconex is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, develop, and support Ignition SCADA solutions across manufacturing and life sciences environments. You will collaborate with operations, IT, and quality teams to deliver reliable automation that improves performance and efficiency.

The role emphasizes turnkey system design, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management with a focus on scalable, compliant automation in regulated settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Automation or related technical discipline with 2+ years in industrial automation.
• 3+ years Ignition SCADA development and support experience.
• 3+ years industrial automation experience in manufacturing environments.
• 3+ years integrating PLC platforms (Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider Electric, or similar).
• 3+ years developing HMI/SCADA for industrial operations.
• 2+ years working with SQL databases and data integration.
• 2+ years troubleshooting automation and manufacturing systems.
• 2+ years in a customer-facing engineering or technical support role.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain Ignition HMI/SCADA applications and automation solutions.
• Integrate Ignition with PLCs, equipment, historians, databases, and other OT.
• Configure and support OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus, and Ethernet/IP networks.
• Develop dashboards, reporting tools, visualizations, and user interfaces for operations.
• Troubleshoot issues involving PLCs, SCADA, databases, networks, and integrations.
• Support upgrades, migrations, deployments, and lifecycle management of automation systems.
• Participate from requirements through testing, commissioning and startup.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, maintenance, IT and quality teams.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, configurations, specs, tests, and procedures.
• Support validation, change management and compliance in regulated environments when required.
• Monitor system performance and identify reliability and efficiency improvements.
• Serve as a trusted technical resource, providing training and knowledge transfer as needed.

Skills

Ignition SCADA

Industrial automation

PLC integration

HMI/SCADA development

SQL databases

Customer-facing role

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Automation/related

Tools

Rockwell

Siemens

Schneider Electric

OSI PI

Ignition Historian

Canary

OPC-UA

MQTT

Modbus

Ethernet/IP

Job description

Proconex is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, develop, and support Ignition SCADA solutions across manufacturing and life sciences environments. You will collaborate with operations, IT, and quality teams to deliver reliable automation that improves performance and efficiency.

The role emphasizes turnkey system design, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management with a focus on scalable, compliant automation in regulated settings.