Senior Logistics Automation & SCADA Engineer

Pay Range: $65.00hr - $70.00hr

Job Overview:

In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for supporting enterprise-wide automation efforts for internal logistics processes and materials movement within complex manufacturing environments. Responsibilities include R&D and evaluation of different robotics technologies and building standard processes for implementation. The candidate will own, maintain, and integrate AMR/AGV/VGV products with a third-party Fleet Management system and connect them into existing IT infrastructure, establishing communication between COTS products and internal systems. This role involves architecture design, establishing best practices, and troubleshooting or diagnosing problems with robot deployments at both the networking and infrastructure layers.

Responsibilities:

• Work with engineering groups and manufacturing company departments to implement internal logistics automation systems.
• Challenge and break down the ideal situation and current systems in pursuit of establishing the optimal business process to improve supply chain performance through automation using efficient problem solving and countermeasure development.
• Identify industry leaders in logistics automation and ensure internal product roadmaps align with best strategies and supporting frameworks.
• Lead the transition of development of PoCs and SOWs relating to automating internal logistics processes into production environments while supporting IT requirements and MES/ERP system integration with AMR Fleet management software.
• Build requirements traceability matrix linking business requirements to DevOps teams around design and implementation of custom software, ranging from low-level robot control code to fleet communication and application development.
• Manage tier 3 escalations from the implementation and support teams focusing on robotics or industrial automation experience, including familiarity with PLCs, industrial robotics, and industrial communication protocols.
• Commission and integrate AMR systems at manufacturing facilities.
• Create system documentation and manuals for end-user consumption to include application navigation, how-tos, and organization-specific use cases.
• Travel to sites for project kick-offs, commissioning support, and meetings.
• Design, develop, and deploy Ignition SCADA solutions for business customers.
• Assist in the development of HMI, SCADA, and reporting applications.
• Work closely with controls engineers, project managers, and end users to define system requirements.
• Configure and develop Ignition Perspective, Vision, and Reporting modules to integrate PLCs, databases, OPC servers, and third-party systems.
• Support system testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.
• Participate in architecture discussions and help establish development best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, and/or Information Systems or equivalent professional work experience.
• 5+ years of SCADA development experience.
• 3+ years of IT/IS systems experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Ignition development experience.
• Strong experience with Ignition Perspective and/or Vision.
• Experience integrating PLC platforms such as Allen-Bradley, Client, or Mitsubishi.
• Solid understanding of industrial networking, OPC UA, databases, and SQL.
• Comfortable working with Linux, Docker, and Bash.

Preferred Skills:

• Inductive Automation Ignition certifications or training.
• Experience with MQTT, Sepasoft, Canary, or AVEVA technologies.
• Exposure to cloud-connected industrial applications and IIoT initiatives.
• 2+ years of experience with a minimum of two platforms: PLCs (Allen Bradley, Toyopuc, Omron, Mitsubishi) or AMR Technologies (MIR, Autoguide, Omron, JBT, Creform, OTTO, AIUT/Aformic, Bastian Automation).