Sr. SCADA​/HMI Platform Engineer New Research Triangle Park, NC

Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future. With a focus on national security and economic resiliency, we serve critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and automotive powering a high-technology future. Vulcan Elements is building a team of ambitious professionals committed to Mission Focus, Technical Excellence, and Transparency.

As the SCADA/HMI Platform Engineer you will technically lead the selection of the SCADA, historian, and visualization stack - then own the selected platform end to end - for a massive 1 million square foot manufacturing facility expansion.

You will author platform-neutral standards (tag/UDT structures, alarm philosophy, HMI style guide) ahead of the platform decision, design the supervisory architecture across a redundant server core and distributed plant network, and hold acceptance authority over every OEM- and integrator-delivered display. This is a high-impact, high-ownership architecture role.

This role begins in Durham, NC and is expected to move to Benson, NC upon completion of new facility.

Responsibilities

• Configure andmaintaincommunications between PLCs/HMIs andhigherlevelsystems (MES/SCADA).Own tag/UDT standards, alarm configuration, historian data acquisition,faceplates,and store-and-forward reliability on the selected platform.
  
  SupportingSCADA tags, transactions, alarming, and data acquisition as required.
• Hold screen and configuration acceptance authority for every OEM and integrator-delivered HMI/SCADA deliverable, verified at Factory and Site Acceptance Tests.
• Serve as a senior-level escalation point for diagnosing complex SCADA, historian, and plant-data acquisition issues.
• Design and maintain OEE, downtime data, and SCADA/Plant status interfaces increase visibility and actionable decision-making throughput, safety, and reliability. Own alarm management per ISA-18.2: philosophy authorship, the rationalization program run jointly with operations, and alarm performance KPI reporting.
• Technically lead the SCADA/batch/historian platform evaluation - requirements, weighted criteria, structured proofs-of-concept on pilot infrastructure, and a defensible decision record
• Stand up SCADA/historian environments ahead of site acceptance testing and direct system-integrator surge staff executing configuration under your standards.
• Define historian collection standards with the Manufacturing Data & MES Engineering so contextualization needs drive collection design.

• Integration of all manufacturing equipment, building management, utility systems, and QC lab interfaces to the selected SCADA system
• HMI screens, vision inspection programs, tag databases, MES/SCADA transaction lists, network IP lists, password inventories, and system backups.
• Platform evaluation decision record, tag/UDT standard, alarm philosophy, HMI style guide, tag databases, and system backups.
• Supervisory server topology and redundancy design, historian pipeline architecture, and screen acceptance records.

Responsibilities and tasks outlined are not exhaustive and may change asdeterminedby the needs of the business

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in electrical engineering, Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field with 7 + yearsof direct industrial automation andSCADA/HMIengineering experience .
• Stronghandsonexperience programming and commissioning Siemens,Allen Bradley/Rockwell, Ignition HMIsand/or PLCs
• Architecture-level ownership (not screen-building alone) on at least one major platform-Ignition, Factory Talk View/Optix, AVEVA System Platform, or comparable-plus platform-evaluation judgment: licensing models,redundancy architectures, and openness of data access assessed on evidence rather than familiarity.
• ISA-18.2 alarm management (philosophy authorship, rationalization facilitation, performance metrics) and high-performance HMI design practice.
• Proficiency with Ethernet/IP,Profinet,EtherCAT, OPCUA, and similar industrial communication standards.
  
  Emphasis on OPC UA and MQTT/Sparkplug plant-data interfaces and historian/time-series collection at scale.

Must be a U.S. Person due to…