Lead Controls Systems Specialist - OSI PI

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Posted Date:
Mar 19, 2026

Requisition Number: 128167

Job Location: Memphis, TN

Summary:

The Hershey Company Memphis plant is a Non-Union plant producing products such as Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, and Good & Plenty, in a high-speed complex environment.

The Plant Asset Data Integration & Intelligence Leader will assume responsibility for assisting and supporting business case value added initiatives through data integration and analysis of our manufacturing processes. Develop and maintain technical knowledge and proficiencies for the digital assets and intelligence solutions platforms. Primary responsibilities include collaboration with corporate and plant manufacturing pillar leads to define business needs and requirements.

Leverage AVEVA PI System capabilities to develop and deliver real-time asset data, intelligence & visualization solutions for supporting plant business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with plant reliability, process, EHS, and quality leaders to define machine data required to support the plants PI Asset Framework (AF) development and identification of value opportunities.
• Prepare internal maintenance requests or Plant capital project requests to enable required machine data integration to support the plant’s PI AF data attribute requirements.
• Collaborate with Corporate Engineering during capital project design, Factory Acceptance Testing, and commissioning to ensure that Machine Data Integration Engineering standards are followed and required Asset data is requested, delivered, and validated.
• Collaborate with plant and corporate Manufacturing Pillar Leads to leverage the AVEVA PI System to build the plant digital Asset Twins and support the execution, delivery, and ongoing sustainability of the plants Asset Intelligence solutions.
• Fully leverage the PI System to collect, store, contextualize, analyze, monitor, and deliver the plants PI AF Asset Hierarchies and Asset Twins.
• Provide consulting support and coaching to Plant PI data consumers and clients for the configuration of PI Vision Dashboards, PI Data Link enabled spreadsheets, and reports to enable real time visibility of equipment health and process and quality performance.
• Develop necessary Asset Framework Analyses (i.e. calculations, statistics, etc.) utilizing PI AF functions to provide users with useful data to trend and monitor to drive value & make educated decisions.

• Collaborate with the AI&I Principal Engineer & Solution Architect to define functional data integration protocols and solutions.
• Collaborate with the AI&I Principal Engineer & Solution Architect to develop standard data structures to support (materials, recipe, production, quality & maintenance) transaction requirements.
• Collaborate with the AI&I Principal Engineer & Solution Architect to define the Hershey Asset Framework Template and Element Hierarchy standards.

• Maintain servers and applications that make up the PI System in the plant.
• Troubleshoot and resolve PI data and application issues though the support of the AI&I Center of Practice and AVEVA PI Support.
• Collaborate with IS resources to coordinate regular server patching and system health checks on PI System Application and hosting servers.

Maintain the PI System backend infrastructure to ensure uptime and data availability.

• Properly configure and tune PI Tags to minimize data storage needs while still providing the required data fidelity.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:

• Working knowledge of control system components and architecture which includes PLCs, Kepware OPC, Networking (TCP/IP), HMI/SCADA systems as well as other state of the art control components and systems preferred.
• Working knowledge and understanding with securing systems running ICT-related communications protocols (Ethernet/IP, OPC, MODBUS, Profinet, etc.).
• Working knowledge of Industrial Control System Integration using open integration protocols OPC/MQTT.
• Ability to apply skills across a broad range of domains (ICS, OT and IT).
• Appropriate combination of knowledge and experience in the following:
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite Applications
• Servers (operational systems & virtualization)
• Data Integration & Access
• Industrial Data Protocols and Formats
• Programming Languages & Scripting training and/or experience.
• Ability to configure Basic Business Intelligence Dashboards and Reports
• Familiarity or previous experience with Continuous Improvement Tools and processes such as Lean, Six Sigma, etc. is preferred to help drive business value and enhance the incumbent’s ability to effectively communicate with the plant reliability, process & quality leads.
• Ability to train manufacturing personnel, including Operators, Supervisors, QA and Maintenance on the value-added business case solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to…