PLC, Technical Lead

Novaspect is seeking a PLC Subject Matter Expert to combine business development, technical leadership, and project execution in growing and delivering our PLC, HMI and SCADA, and PLC migration services. The PLC SME will act as both a trusted customer advisor and a hands‑on technical contributor, helping customers identify needs, shape solutions, and achieve measurable operational outcomes. This position serves as the senior technical lead for Novaspect's approved Emerson and Allen‑Bradley platforms, leads PLC‑to‑DeltaV migrations and integrations, supports opportunity development, and helps build scalable standards, tools, and team capability.

The role partners closely with sales, engineering, project delivery, and service coordination throughout the customer and project lifecycle.

• Engage customer stakeholders across operations, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and leadership to identify PLC modernization, migration, reliability, and lifecycle-service opportunities.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships at both site and enterprise levels.
• Lead or support discovery sessions, installed‑base assessments, modernization workshops, and technical value discussions.
• Identify customer critical success factors, key performance indicators, operational risks, and business drivers related to PLC systems and control performance.
• Partner with sales teams to develop, qualify, and close PLC service opportunities and maintain a visible pipeline of potential work.

• Serve as the subject matter expert for approved Emerson platforms, including GE Fanuc and PAC Systems MAS, Rx2i, Rx3i, and DeltaV 200 and 300 PLC, and Allen‑Bradley and Rockwell platforms, including Studio 5000, RSLogix 5000, Control Logix, Compact Logix, and Micro Logix.
• Define solution approaches, control architectures, technical scope, and execution strategies aligned with customer needs and Novaspect standards.
• Lead PLC‑to‑DeltaV migrations and integrations that convert legacy control platforms to modern DeltaV solutions.
• Configure and support approved HMI and SCADA platforms, including Factory Talk, Movicon.
  
  NExT, Beijer, and Maple, with responsibility for effective graphics, displays, and operator workflows.
• Quantify and communicate value‑based outcomes such as reduced downtime, lower obsolescence risk, improved maintainability, faster troubleshooting, and reduced lifecycle cost.
• Contribute to proposal development, including discovery findings, technical narratives, services calculations, effort estimates, assumptions, and risk identification.
• Apply Novaspect's PLC and HMI market guidelines by focusing on approved Emerson and Allen‑Bradley scope, directing safety and SIS requirements toward supported DeltaV SIS solutions, and flagging legacy or nonstandard platforms for review before quoting.

• Lead or actively participate in PLC project delivery, including control‑strategy design, programming, testing, startup, and commissioning.
• Collaborate with project teams to define roles, delegate work, coordinate resources, and ensure successful execution.
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshoot complex issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Promote standardization and reuse of tools, templates, code libraries, and methodologies across projects.
• Support on‑time delivery, technical quality, safe execution, customer acceptance, and effective project closeout.

• Develop standardized PLC assessment, audit, migration‑planning, programming, and lifecycle‑service offerings.
• Create migration roadmaps and phased investment strategies aligned with customer operating…