Experienced Lead Project Engineer (Ignition)

Avanceon; Exton (PA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanceon seeks a Lead Project Engineer with strong Inductive Automation Ignition expertise to drive delivery of customer projects. This role blends hands-on automation with leadership responsibilities, owning technical delivery and coordinating multi-discipline teams.

You will design, develop, and support Ignition-based solutions, integrate PLC/SCADA, and work closely with customers, IT, and operations across the project lifecycle. Travel to sites is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Ignition experience in production applications.
• Ability to independently develop, troubleshoot, and deploy Ignition solutions in an industrial environment.
• Experience leading engineering teams and owning automation projects from design through commissioning and customer acceptance.
• Experience programming PLC/SCADA with Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Schneider Electric preferred.
• Experience integrating SCADA with PLCs, networks, databases, and plant/enterprise systems.
• Working knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Comfortable communicating with customers across engineering, IT, and operations.
• Ignition Gold Certification preferred; equivalent Ignition project experience will be considered.
• Position can be local or remote but travel to customer sites is required.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand challenges and design automation solutions to improve productivity, efficiency, capacity, and quality.
• Serve as the accountable technical authority for designated projects, owning technical approach and delivery.
• Lead project engineering teams by providing direction, coordinating activities, reviewing work, and resolving issues.
• Partner with Project Manager on planning, scheduling, financial tracking, documentation, and coordination.
• Design, develop, configure, test, deploy, and support Ignition applications (Perspective, tags, alarming, historian, scripting, databases, OPC UA, device integration).
• Develop and integrate PLC, HMI/SCADA, and other control solutions across industries and processes.
• Apply Industry 4.0, IIoT, IT, and other emerging technologies as value drivers.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, IT, and customer teams through the project lifecycle.

Skills

Inductive Ignition

Team leadership

PLC/SCADA

SQL scripting

Industrial IT/OT

Tools

Allen-Bradley

Siemens

Schneider Electric

Job description

Description

Avanceon is seeking an experienced Lead Project Engineer with strong Inductive Automation Ignition expertise to join our Engineering Team. This role combines hands-on automation and controls engineering with responsibility for leading project teams and owning the successful technical delivery of customer projects.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand their operational and technical challenges and design automation solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, capacity, and quality.
• Serve as the accountable technical authority for assigned projects, owning the technical approach, design decisions, engineering quality, and successful technical delivery.
• Lead project engineering teams by providing technical direction, coordinating engineering activities, reviewing work, and resolving technical issues.
• Partner with the Project Manager or Project Coordinator on planning, scheduling, financial tracking, documentation, and project coordination.
• Design, develop, configure, test, deploy, and support applications using Inductive Automation Ignition Perspective, tags, alarming, historian, scripting, databases, OPC UA, and industrial device integration.
• Develop and integrate PLC, HMI/SCADA, and other control solutions across a variety of industries and processes.
• Apply Industry 4.0, IIoT, IT, and other emerging technologies where they provide value to the customer.
• Work effectively across engineering, operations, IT, and customer teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition and implementation of production applications.
• Demonstrated ability to independently develop, troubleshoot, and deploy Ignition solutions in an industrial environment.
• Experience leading engineering teams and taking technical ownership of automation projects from design through commissioning and customer acceptance.
• Experience programming PLC and SCADA systems; Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Schneider experience preferred.
• Experience integrating SCADA applications with PLCs, industrial networks, databases, and plant or enterprise systems.
• Working knowledge of SQL, scripting, and industrial communication protocols.
• Comfortable working directly with customers and communicating across engineering, IT, and operations.
• Ignition Gold Certification preferred; equivalent demonstrated Ignition project experience will be considered.
• This position can be local or remote but requires project-related travel to customer locations.

Why Avanceon?

Yes, we offer all the usual benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401K contributions, etc., but what makes Avanceon different from the rest?

We also have flex hours, work-from-home opportunities, a casual dress code, a playful and professional work environment, book clubs, social gatherings, oh yeah, let’s not forget professional growth too, freedom to work the way you work, diverse customers and industries (you'll never be bored!), easy and fun ways to donate to charities, were parties mentioned? …And that's just the beginning of the list!

Note about Remote Associates: At Avanceon we value our remote associates just as much as our onsite team members. Our company culture is inclusive and supportive, and we make sure that all of our remote employees feel like they are part of the team, whether that is virtually or traveling to join us in the office. If you're looking for a remote position where you'll be treated like a valued team member, then Avanceon is the perfect place for you.

Who is Avanceon?

We are an engineering firm that helps manufacturers make their factories faster, with higher quality, and less waste. We work within industrial control systems to cause machinery within a manufacturing plant to work in the best possible way. Our clients come from many different verticals (food, consumer goods, drinking and wastewater – not together! and much more). You can imagine that this provides incredible amounts of varied and fascinating experiences for our associates. We are a stable and growing business that, thanks to our awesome employees, we have even been named a Top Workplace in Philly for 9 years in a row!

www.avanceon.com

We believe our differences enrich our growth and success. Avanceon is committed to creating an inclusive environment that values and welcomes diversity among our associates. We are an equal-opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.