Shop Floor OT Systems Engineer

TEKNIKOZ; Elyria (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKNIKOZ seeks an OT Specialist to own the technology layer connecting shop floor equipment to plant and enterprise systems. You will design, implement and sustain reliable, secure, and documented data acquisition and control integration across lines enabling MES, historian, analytics and quality systems with real-time production data.

This hands-on engineering role also includes mentoring plant teams, setting OT standards, and supporting integration and troubleshooting across manufacturing

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of hands-on experience in manufacturing or plant automation.
• Experience configuring and programming Ignition gateway, drivers, tags, scripting and HMI development.
• Hands-on experience with a process historian; Canary Labs strongly preferred.
• Hands-on PLC programming on Rockwell/SIEMENS or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of industrial protocols: OPC UA/DA, MQTT, Sparkplug B, Modbus, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET.
• Ability to select field instrumentation, I/O and edge hardware based on data acquisition requirements.
• Understanding of industrial networking VLANs, switching, routing, DMZ concepts, firewalls.
• Ability to read P&IDs, electrical and control schematics, loop drawings and I/O lists.
• Strong documentation discipline and structured problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement shop floor to IT/OT communications.
• Design, configure and deploy the connectivity layer between manufacturing equipment and IT/OT systems.
• Configuration of historian, tagging, data storage and downstream publishing.
• Create OT standards and as-built documentation.
• Drive OT sustainability, obsolescence planning and patching.
• PLC programming and troubleshooting support for existing manufacturing lines.
• Support commissioning, line trials, changeovers and equipment integration.
• Collaborate with OEMs to ensure compliance with OT standards.

Skills

Ignition programming

Canary Labs historian

PLC programming

Industrial protocols

P&ID reading

Networking security basics

Documentation discipline

Troubleshooting under production

Tools

Ignition (Inductive Automation)

Canary Labs historian

Rockwell Studio 5000/RSLogix

Siemens TIA Portal

Job description

TEKNIKOZ seeks an OT Specialist to own the technology layer connecting shop floor equipment to plant and enterprise systems. You will design, implement and sustain reliable, secure, and documented data acquisition and control integration across lines enabling MES, historian, analytics and quality systems with real-time production data.

This hands-on engineering role also includes mentoring plant teams, setting OT standards, and supporting integration and troubleshooting across manufacturing