Aveva PI Engineer

Job Title: AVEVA Senior Consultant

Job Description

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced AVEVA Senior Consultant with 7–10 years of relevant experience in designing, implementing, integrating, upgrading, and supporting AVEVA-based industrial automation and digital manufacturing solutions.

The candidate will be responsible for delivering scalable and reliable AVEVA solutions across manufacturing environments. The role requires strong technical expertise, manufacturing-domain knowledge, stakeholder management, and the ability to lead technical teams across implementation, transition, and application-support engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, configuration, implementation, and support of AVEVA solutions.

• Work extensively on AVEVA products such as:

• AVEVA System Platform

• AVEVA Application Server

• AVEVA InTouch HMI

• AVEVA Historian

• AVEVA Operations Management Interface

• AVEVA Edge

• AVEVA Insight

• AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System, where applicable

• Gather business and technical requirements from plant operations, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and IT stakeholders.

• Translate business requirements into scalable functional and technical solution designs.

• Develop and configure HMI and SCADA screens, symbols, templates, objects, scripts, alarms, trends, dashboards, and reports.

• Design reusable application objects and templates using AVEVA System Platform standards.

• Configure communication between AVEVA applications and PLCs, DCS, OPC servers, historians, databases, and shop-floor equipment.

• Integrate AVEVA solutions with MES, ERP, LIMS, CMMS, PI System, reporting platforms, and other enterprise applications.

• Lead application installation, system configuration, migration, version upgrades, patching, and modernization activities.

• Review existing AVEVA architecture and recommend improvements related to performance, scalability, availability, security, and maintainability.

• Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, communication, integration, and database-related issues.

• Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions for recurring incidents.

• Participate in incident, problem, change, release, and service-request management processes.

• Support critical production issues and provide technical guidance during major incidents.

• Prepare solution-design documents, technical specifications, configuration documents, interface documents, test scripts, deployment plans, and operating procedures.

• Lead unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing, and production deployment.

• Ensure adherence to cybersecurity, user-access management, backup, disaster-recovery, audit, and organizational governance requirements.

• Coordinate with OEM vendors, infrastructure teams, plant stakeholders, network teams, database administrators, and third-party service providers.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to junior consultants, developers, and support engineers.

• Participate in project planning, effort estimation, resource planning, risk management, and delivery tracking.

• Support transition activities, including application discovery, knowledge acquisition, documentation, shadow support, reverse shadow support, and operational handover.

• Contribute to proposals, solution presentations, technical assessments, and customer demonstrations.