IMS Engineer

Key Responsibilities

•    Support, troubleshoot, document, and maintain IMS/SCADA systems used for automated manufacturing equipment, manual processes, data collection, and manufacturing system integrations. 
•    Provide support for SCADA and IMS-related issues, including triage, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, escalation, corrective actions, and follow-up documentation. 
•    Maintain accurate technical documentation for SCADA applications, equipment interfaces, tag structures, data flows, system dependencies, troubleshooting procedures, support handoff materials, and known issues. 
•    Partner with Plant Engineering and Controls Engineering to define the PLC/controller interface requirements needed for SCADA integration, including required tags, data types, naming conventions, status signals, alarms, equipment states, recipes, part/process identifiers, fault codes, quality data, and handshake logic. 
•    Review new equipment and automation projects to ensure equipment controls interfaces are designed to support SCADA visibility, MES connectivity, historian data collection, and future analytics requirements. 
•    Work with automation equipment vendors to define, review, test, and document equipment interface specifications before equipment release, installation, and production handoff. 
•    Interface automated and manual manufacturing equipment with plant information systems, MES, data historians, databases, and enterprise data platforms. 
•    Collaborate with Process Engineering and Manufacturing teams to identify critical process, equipment, quality, and production data that should be collected, contextualized, and made available for operational and analytical use. 
•    Provide technical guidance to plant teams on SCADA standards, equipment connectivity, data collection expectations, troubleshooting methods, and support processes. 
•    Support commissioning, validation, production startup, and post-launch stabilization of SCADA and IMS applications. 
•    Participate in continuous improvement activities to improve system reliability, reduce recurring issues, standardize interfaces, and improve supportability across manufacturing operations. 
•    Execute project and support assignments in a team-based environment with limited supervision, while maintaining alignment with global IMS standards and local plant priorities.

Education&Experiences

•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent.  
•    With 1-3 years of SCADA support and deployment experience. 
•    Able to travel globally (United States, Poland, and Mexico at a minimum).
•    Proficiency in English (written and verbal).

Required Skills

•    Knowledge of SCADA (Ignition, GE iFix, or similar) and control systems and components.
•    Knowledge of controls and real time Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) .
•    Knowledge of structured programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, SQL).
•    Experience integrating automated and manual manufacturing equipment with plant Information Management Systems (IMS).
•    Familiarity with industrial communication protocols (e.g., OPC UA, Modbus, Ethernet/IP, MQTT, Etc.).
•    Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-cultural and remote team environments.
•    Strong documentation and technical writing skills.
•    Ability to work effectively as both an individual and as a team member to solve complex SCADA problems and design decisions.
•    Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
•    Ability to generate and communicate high level flow charts for process and data flows.

Desired Skills

•    Experience with Inductive Automation Ignition (Perspective, Vision, scripting).
•    Experience configuring Aveva PI System (Asset Framework, Event Frames, PI Vision).
•    Familiarity with Siemens, Omron, and Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).
•    Knowledge of MS SQL and database design for manufacturing data.
•    Experience using GitLab for version control and CI/CD pipelines.
•    Proficiency with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for SCADA and automation development, including source control integration.
•    Experience with automated assembly cells for discrete manufacturing.
•    Project Management techniques experience/exposure (Agile and Waterfall).