Experienced Lead Project Engineer (Ignition)

Avanceon LLC•Exton, PA

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

Avanceon is seeking an experienced Lead Project Engineer with strong Inductive Automation Ignition expertise to join our Engineering Team. This role combines hands-on automation and controls engineering with responsibility for leading project teams and owning the successful technical delivery of customer projects.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition and implementation of production applications.
Demonstrated ability to independently develop, troubleshoot, and deploy Ignition solutions in an industrial environment.
Experience leading engineering teams and taking technical ownership of automation projects from design through commissioning and customer acceptance.
Experience programming PLC and SCADA systems; Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Schneider experience preferred.
Experience integrating SCADA applications with PLCs, industrial networks, databases, and plant or enterprise systems.
Working knowledge of SQL, scripting, and industrial communication protocols.
Comfortable working directly with customers and communicating across engineering, IT, and operations.
Ignition Gold Certification preferred; equivalent demonstrated Ignition project experience will be considered.
This position can be local or remote but requires project-related travel to customer locations.

Responsibilities

Work with customers to understand their operational and technical challenges and design automation solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, capacity, and quality.
Serve as the accountable technical authority for assigned projects, owning the technical approach, design decisions, engineering quality, and successful technical delivery.
Lead project engineering teams by providing technical direction, coordinating engineering activities, reviewing work, and resolving technical issues.
Partner with the Project Manager or Project Coordinator on planning, scheduling, financial tracking, documentation, and project coordination.
Design, develop, configure, test, deploy, and support applications using Inductive Automation Ignition Perspective, tags, alarming, historian, scripting, databases, OPC UA, and industrial device integration.
Develop and integrate PLC, HMI/SCADA, and other control solutions across a variety of industries and processes.
Apply Industry 4.0, IIoT, IT, and other emerging technologies where they provide value to the customer.
Work effectively across engineering, operations, IT, and customer teams throughout the project lifecycle.