Senior Automation Engineer; Back-End SCADA)

We collaborate with our customers and technology and service partners with a relentless co-innovation mindset. We solve difficult challenges and deliver sustainable outcomes. If you are a problem solver with a passion for working across multiple technologies and business relationships, we invite you to explore opportunities at Stellix Global Services.

Here’s What You’ll Get

• Highly competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending or Health Savings Accounts
• Unlimited Vacation Time
• 10 Paid Holidays
• 12 Paid Weeks Birthing Parent
• Pet Insurance
• Retirement Savings: 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Company Paid STD, LTD, and Life Insurance

About Our Team

Professional Services is a cross functional organization responsible for capital project delivery, operational run support and custom solution development and implementation. Professional Services bridges multiple industries including life sciences, food and beverage, power and specialty chemical and consumer products. Our main goals focus on increasing manufacturing throughput, improving client technology adoption, contextualizing data, and driving process and product quality into all facets of the manufacturing process.

You will be part of the Process Automation group which will support Commercial Life Sciences (mAb) and Emerging Life Sciences (RNA, mRNA, CAR-T, Cell Therapy, Gene Therapy, etc) and Industrial Manufacturing. You will support clients across the nation and globally, both on-site and remote; however, as a New England based company, we pride ourselves on our ability to serve our clients locally.

You will receive a wide level of exposure to all aspects of modern manufacturing related to PLC and SCADA applications and platforms. This team is often on the cutting edge of the industry change working in partnership with both startups and well-established manufacturing facilities building Greenfield facilities, transitioning and upgrading from legacy systems, and expansion of existing facilities. The Engineering team provides large project engineering, site engineering and integration engineering services using the Ignition and other SCADA systems.

Engineers leverage their expertise and knowledge of process control systems and automation across multiple process industries.

SUMMARY - The Role

The Back End Lead architects Ignition gateway topology, redundancy, and scaling; designs the SQL database and tag historian layer; configures and troubleshoots the OPC and driver connections to PLCs and skid controllers; and builds the enterprise interfaces that move production data to and from LIMS, ERP, and QMS systems. The role also owns the repeatable method for bringing new skids, equipment, and benchtop units onto Ignition, so each new unit comes online consistently rather than being solved from scratch.

Security hardening sits with this position as well - directory integration, single sign-on, certificates, and OT/IT network segmentation - as does the technical relationship with the PLC Principal Engineer at the tag mapping and OPC server boundary.

Target credentials: Ignition Core Certified;
Gold Certification (Gateway Network Design)

• Regulated biotech focus: build the audit-trail-safe data path from skid to historian to MES/LIMS that preserves data integrity end to end, and support the IQ/OQ and data integrity assessments that path must pass.
• General industrial focus: integration priorities shift toward historian and OEE data availability and ERP scheduling rather than LIMS/QMS; data integrity controls can be lighter-weight where 21 CFR Part 11 is not in scope.

This position includes 6 functions:

• Develop proposals and…