Senior SCADA/HMI Platform Architect

Vulcan-Elements; Benson (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vulcan Elements is seeking a SCADA/HMI Platform Engineer to lead the selection and end-to-end ownership of the SCADA, historian, and visualization stack for a massive 1 million square foot manufacturing facility expansion.

You will author platform-neutral standards and design the supervisory architecture across a redundant server core and distributed plant network, with acceptance authority over all OEM/integrator displays.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering, mechatronics, or related field.
• 7+ years of direct industrial automation and SCADA/HMI experience.
• Hands-on experience programming and commissioning Siemens, AllenBradley/Rockwell, Ignition HMIs and PLCs.
• Architecture-level ownership (not screen-building alone) on at least one major platform and understanding of licensing models, redundancy, and data access.
• ISA-18.2 alarm management and high-performance HMI design practice.
• Proficiency with Ethernet/IP, Profinet, EtherCAT, OPC UA, and similar industrial communication standards.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain communications between PLCs/HMIs and higher-level systems (MES/SCADA). Own tag/UDT standards, alarm configuration, historian data acquisition, faceplates, and store-and-forward reliability on the selected platform.
• Hold screen and configuration acceptance authority for every OEM- and integrator-delivered HMI/SCADA deliverable, verified at Factory and Site Acceptance Tests.
• Serve as a senior-level escalation point for diagnosing complex SCADA, historian, and plant-data acquisition issues.
• Design and maintain OEE, downtime data, and SCADA/Plant status interfaces to increase visibility and actionable decision-making throughput, safety, and reliability. Own alarm management per ISA-18.2: philosophy authorship, the rationalization program run jointly with operations, and alarm performance KPI reporting.
• Technically lead the SCADA/batch/historian platform evaluation - requirements, weighted criteria, structured proofs-of-concept on pilot infrastructure, and a defensible decision record
• Stand up SCADA/historian environments ahead of site acceptance testing and direct system-integrator surge staff executing configuration under your standards.
• Define historian collection standards with the Manufacturing Data & MES Engineering so contextualization needs drive collection design.

Skills

SCADA/HMI engineering

Industrial automation

Siemens PLCs

Ignition HMIs

Ethernet/IP

Profinet

OPC UA

Python/C++

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Automation/Mechatronics

Tools

Ignition

FactoryTalk View

AVEVA System Platform

HMI/SCADA platforms

Job description

Vulcan Elements is seeking a SCADA/HMI Platform Engineer to lead the selection and end-to-end ownership of the SCADA, historian, and visualization stack for a massive 1 million square foot manufacturing facility expansion.

You will author platform-neutral standards and design the supervisory architecture across a redundant server core and distributed plant network, with acceptance authority over all OEM/integrator displays.