SCADA Solutions Engineer

Help UK Industry Modernise and Optimise

We’re looking for people who can establish themselves as an extension of our customers’ control and instrumentation teams, by demonstrating deep technical knowledge and creative application of modern automation technologies.

Your Goals & Responsibilities
  • Establish detailed knowledge of customer automation footprints, and their ongoing needs for investment and support
  • Design, validate and present automation solutions for greenfield and upgrade scenarios
  • Effectively communicate different aspects of automation value propositions to a mix of customer roles, including non-technical people
  • Evangelise our key partners’ (GE Digital, Emerson Machine Control) products to customer technical teams and influencers
  • Support sales and marketing efforts by building and delivering demonstration solutions for key customers and markets
  • Provide support and consultative services to systems integration partners that work with Emerson and GE technologies
  • Help Novotek sales colleagues identify and qualify automation product opportunities in their customer and prospect base.
What We Offer
  • Flexibility – this role will work across our entire territory, so the successful candidate may be home-based if not located near one of our offices
  • A place in a team that works together to create shared opportunities and shared success
  • Competitive salary and incentive scheme
  • Ongoing professional development, including opportunities to develop new technology skills and domain expertise
  • Ongoing personal development including opportunities to career options in different roles as Novotek grows.
Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in science, engineering, technology or related discipline or equivalent industrial experience such as a minimum of seven (7) years’ experience within a hands-on automation or systems engineering role

Technical Expertise

Substantial hands-on experience with GE Digital’s Proficy iFIX SCADA and ideally related solutions such as Proficy Historian (5-7 years)

  • Experience with PLC or other automation control platforms, including HMIs/panels
  • Practical experience with OPC communications, ideally OPC UA and OPC DA, and other automation communications protocols such as MQTT
  • Exposure to relevant automation standards such as ISA 95, ISA 101 (HMI), ISA 18.2 (Alarm Management), ISA 62443 (Security) or ISA-88
  • Practical experience configuring IT infrastructure to run in industrial environments, including use of Windows Server and virtualisation solutions such as Hyper-V or VMWare
  • Experience of any of the following would be beneficial:
  • Use of scripting languages such as VBA or Python
  • MS SQL Server
  • Use of trending and/or reporting tools to supplement SCADA and Historian functionality

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Apply by: send CV and cover letter to sean.robinson@novotek.com , referencing position description