IMS Engineer

Day to Day 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 equirements 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. 

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).