Ignition SCADA Engineer

Field SCADA Engineer

Ignition SCADA | Data Centers | Commissioning & Deployment

Location: Remote (North America Travel Required) Travel: Approximately 50-60% Employment Type: Full-Time

Join a Team Delivering Advanced SCADA Solutions Across Critical Infrastructure Environments

We're partnering with a rapidly growing automation and systems integration organization that is seeking a Field SCADA Engineer to support the deployment, validation, commissioning, and startup of Ignition SCADA solutions across complex, high-availability facilities throughout North America.

This is a highly visible, client-facing role where you'll play a key part in bringing sophisticated automation systems online, ensuring performance requirements are met, and supporting customers through successful project delivery.

If you enjoy travel, hands-on engineering work, troubleshooting complex systems, and seeing projects progress from implementation through final turnover, this could be an outstanding opportunity.

About the Role

As a Field SCADA Engineer, you'll serve as the bridge between engineering teams and end users, providing onsite technical expertise throughout commissioning and startup activities.

You'll work with Ignition SCADA platforms, PLC-based control systems, BMS and EPMS solutions, industrial networks, and mission-critical infrastructure to ensure systems are delivered, tested, and operating as designed.

This position offers a blend of technical problem-solving, field engineering, customer interaction, and project delivery responsibilities.

The ideal candidate will have experience with:

• Ignition SCADA
• Ignition Perspective
• SCADA commissioning
• BMS and EPMS systems
• Industrial automation
• PLC integration
• Startup and commissioning activities
• Troubleshooting live control systems
• Customer-facing engineering support
• Data center or critical infrastructure environments

What You'll Be Doing

SCADA Deployment & Commissioning

You'll take ownership of onsite commissioning and system deployment activities across various automation and controls projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Deploying and commissioning Ignition SCADA solutions.
• Supporting startup, site acceptance, and turnover activities.
• Performing point-to-point verification of system components.
• Validating graphics, dashboards, alarm management systems, and trending functionality.
• Testing HMI and visualization platforms in live operating environments.
• Working alongside commissioning teams to verify operational performance.
• Supporting integrated systems testing and functional performance validation.
• Ensuring deployed systems align with project requirements and design intent.

System Validation & Testing

You'll be responsible for ensuring systems perform reliably and accurately before final customer acceptance.

This includes:

• Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Validating alarm functionality and event reporting.
• Testing trend collection and historical data storage.
• Verifying communication between SCADA, PLCs, databases, historians, and third-party platforms.
• Confirming system performance across desktop, tablet, and mobile interfaces.
• Troubleshooting communication, interface, and display issues.
• Identifying and resolving software and integration challenges.
• Supporting issue resolution during critical commissioning periods.

Customer Support & Technical Leadership

A significant part of this position involves working directly with customers and project stakeholders.

You'll:

• Provide onsite support during startup and go-live activities.
• Assist customers through commissioning and acceptance procedures.
• Demonstrate platform functionality and system capabilities.
• Deliver operator and end-user training.
• Act as a trusted technical resource throughout project delivery.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to resolve field issues.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and project teams.
• Ensure a positive transition from project implementation to operational use.

Troubleshooting & Problem Resolution

You'll regularly support complex technical issues in operational environments.

Responsibilities include:

• Diagnosing SCADA communication issues.
• Investigating integration challenges between multiple systems.
• Supporting PLC and network troubleshooting efforts.
• Resolving visualization and user interface concerns.
• Analyzing performance trends to identify root causes.
• Working with development teams to implement corrective actions.
• Supporting remote and onsite technical support activities.

Documentation & Quality Assurance

Accurate documentation is critical to project success.

You'll be expected to:

• Document commissioning activities and validation procedures.
• Record field modifications and project changes.
• Create and maintain commissioning reports.
• Generate punch lists and monitor issue resolution.
• Support turnover packages and project closeout documentation.
• Maintain as-built records and testing results.
• Provide field feedback that helps improve future deployments and engineering processes.

Required Qualifications

We're interested in speaking with candidates who possess a combination of the following experience and skills:

Technical Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience working with Ignition SCADA.
• Hands-on experience with Ignition Perspective.
• Experience commissioning, deploying, supporting, or maintaining SCADA systems.
• Understanding of control system architecture and industrial automation environments.
• Experience working with PLC-based control systems.
• Familiarity with industrial networking and communications protocols.
• Experience validating alarms, trends, graphics, and visualization systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to diagnose issues within complex, integrated environments.

Professional Skills

• Strong customer-facing communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in field-based environments.
• Excellent problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong organizational and documentation skills.
• Attention to detail during testing and commissioning activities.
• Ability to prioritize work in fast-paced project environments.
• Comfortable collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Travel Requirements

• Willingness to travel approximately 50-60%.
• Ability to travel throughout North America.
• Valid driver's license.
• Ability to work onsite at customer facilities and project locations.

Preferred Qualifications

While not required, any of the following would be considered highly valuable:

Education

• Associate's Degree in a technical discipline.

OR

• Bachelor's Degree in:
  • Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Automation Engineering
  • Industrial Technology
  • Related technical fields

Additional Technical Experience

• Data center environments.
• Critical infrastructure facilities.
• Building Management Systems (BMS).
• Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS).
• Industrial automation projects.
• Large-scale commissioning projects.
• Construction and startup environments.
• SQL databases.
• Industrial historians.
• Canary Historian.
• Ignition Historian.
• MQTT technologies.
• Industrial cybersecurity principles.
• User access management and security controls.
• Remote technical support and diagnostics.

Certifications

The following certifications are beneficial:

• Ignition Core Certification
• Ignition Gold Certification
• OSHA 10
• OSHA 30
• Industrial Automation Certifications
• Network or SCADA-related certifications

Candidates without an active OSHA 10 certification may be required to complete training as part of onboarding.

Why This Opportunity?

This role offers the chance to work on some of the most technically sophisticated automation and critical infrastructure projects in North America.

You'll benefit from:

• Exposure to large-scale Ignition SCADA deployments.
• Hands-on work with modern automation technologies.
• Significant customer interaction and project ownership.
• A high degree of independence and autonomy.
• Opportunities to travel and support diverse projects.
• Collaboration with experienced engineers and automation specialists.
• The opportunity to make a direct impact on project success.