Lead Automation Engineer - Ignition & IIoT (Remote)

Avanceon LLC; Exton (PA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K contributions

Job summary

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.

You will work with customers, lead engineering teams, and design solutions using Ignition Perspective, PLC/SCADA, and IT/IIoT technologies across diverse industries.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition.
• Experience leading engineering teams and owning automation projects from design through commissioning.
• Experience programming PLC/SCADA, with Allen-Bradley/Siemens/Schneider preferred.
• Experience integrating SCADA with PLCs, industrial networks, databases, and plant/enterprise systems.
• Knowledge of SQL, scripting, and industrial communication protocols.

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 Ignition Perspective, tags, alarming, historian, scripting, databases, OPC UA, and 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.

Skills

Ignition expertise

Project leadership

Customer communication

PLC/SCADA programming

SQL & scripting

Tools

Inductive Automation Ignition

Allen-Bradley

Siemens

Schneider Electric

SQL

Job 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.

You will work with customers, lead engineering teams, and design solutions using Ignition Perspective, PLC/SCADA, and IT/IIoT technologies across diverse industries.