Flexware Innovation
Posted 58 days agoVerified live 1d ago
Systems Engineer
Brief overview
Remote
3+ yrsMinimum
SCADA platformsInductive Automation Ignition platformIgnition Core CertificationIgnition Vision moduleIgnition Perspective moduleIgnition Reporting moduleScripting in IgnitionLadder LogicSequential Function ChartsStructured TextFunction Block DiagramsSCADA migrationWonderwareiFIXICONICSFactoryTalk ViewSQL Server
About the company
Flexware Innovationflexwareinnovation.com
Flexware Improving manufacturing efficiency by solving complex IT problems using software, automation engineering, business intelligence. It is a sub-organization of Hitachi.
Job description
Summary
Flexware Innovation is a company that partners with manufacturers to guide their strategy and execute innovative solutions. The IA&C Systems Engineer role involves building SCADA solutions primarily using Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform and contributing to a team focused on solving complex problems for clients.
Responsibilities
- Ability to task-switch between 3+ concurrent projects effectively
- High attention to detail while maintaining awareness of the broader system impact (past, present, and future implications of design decisions)
- Continuous awareness of and highlighting opportunities to develop tools and automation to improve personal and team efficiency
- Demonstrates professional maturity, including the ability to receive and apply constructive feedback
- Comfortable participating in customer-facing meetings
- Ability to travel up to 20% and support up to 2 weeks on-site during commissioning periods
Skills
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with SCADA/HMI platforms including IA's Ignition platform
- Ignition Core Certification
- Vision and Perspective module experience, including responsive multi-device screen design
- Reporting module experience
- Strong scripting skills within and outside Ignition
- Understanding of common industrial control schemes, including ability to read PLC logic: Ladder Logic, Sequential Function Charts (SFC), Structured Text, Function Block Diagrams
- Experience with SCADA migrations to Ignition (e.g., Wonderware, iFIX, ICONICS, FactoryTalk View)
- Ability to produce clear, detailed technical documentation for system design and implementation
- Database experience (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Working knowledge of IT/OT infrastructure and troubleshooting concepts
- Ability to task-switch between 3+ concurrent projects effectively
- High attention to detail while maintaining awareness of the broader system impact (past, present, and future implications of design decisions)
- Continuous awareness of and highlighting opportunities to develop tools and automation to improve personal and team efficiency
- Demonstrates professional maturity, including the ability to receive and apply constructive feedback
- Comfortable participating in customer-facing meetings
- Ability to travel up to 20% and support up to 2 weeks on-site during commissioning periods
- PLC programming experience
- Prior development experience in other SCADA platforms (Wonderware, iFIX, ICONICS, FactoryTalk View, etc.)
- Ignition Gold Certification
- REST/Web API integration experience (GET/POST, etc.)
- Experience with Ignition WebDev module
- MQTT experience, including platforms such as HiveMQ and CirrusLink
- Middleware integration experience, including understanding of where it fits in architecture and how to implement (e.g., Kepware, Boomi)
- Alarm notification pipeline design and implementation
- Data historian systems (OSIsoft PI, Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian, etc.)
- Experience with Docker and Git, and contributing to shared codebases/frameworks in an Agile/Scrum environment
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with SCADA/HMI platforms including IA's Ignition platform
- Ignition Core Certification
- Vision and Perspective module experience, including responsive multi-device screen design
- Reporting module experience
- Strong scripting skills within and outside Ignition
- Understanding of common industrial control schemes, including ability to read PLC logic: Ladder Logic, Sequential Function Charts (SFC), Structured Text, Function Block Diagrams
- Experience with SCADA migrations to Ignition (e.g., Wonderware, iFIX, ICONICS, FactoryTalk View)
- Ability to produce clear, detailed technical documentation for system design and implementation
- Database experience (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Working knowledge of IT/OT infrastructure and troubleshooting concepts
- Ability to task-switch between 3+ concurrent projects effectively
- High attention to detail while maintaining awareness of the broader system impact (past, present, and future implications of design decisions)
- Continuous awareness of and highlighting opportunities to develop tools and automation to improve personal and team efficiency
- Demonstrates professional maturity, including the ability to receive and apply constructive feedback
- Comfortable participating in customer-facing meetings
- Ability to travel up to 20% and support up to 2 weeks on-site during commissioning periods
Nice to Haves
- PLC programming experience
- Prior development experience in other SCADA platforms (Wonderware, iFIX, ICONICS, FactoryTalk View, etc.)
- Ignition Gold Certification
- REST/Web API integration experience (GET/POST, etc.)
- Experience with Ignition WebDev module
- MQTT experience, including platforms such as HiveMQ and CirrusLink
- Middleware integration experience, including understanding of where it fits in architecture and how to implement (e.g., Kepware, Boomi)
- Alarm notification pipeline design and implementation
- Data historian systems (OSIsoft PI, Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian, etc.)
- Experience with Docker and Git, and contributing to shared codebases/frameworks in an Agile/Scrum environment
Benefits
- Opportunity to participate in customer-facing meetings
- Ability to travel up to 20% and support up to 2 weeks on-site during commissioning periods
- Balanced, meaningful life (culture statement)
