Experienced Lead Project Engineer (Ignition)

Avanceon•Exton, PA

About The Position

Avanceon is seeking an experienced Lead Project Engineer with strong Inductive Automation Ignition expertise to join its Engineering Team. The role combines hands-on automation and controls engineering with leading project teams and owning the successful technical delivery of customer projects. The position may be local or remote and requires project-related travel to customer locations. The engineer works with customers to understand operational and technical challenges and designs automation solutions to improve productivity, efficiency, capacity, and quality. They serve as the accountable technical authority for assigned projects, owning the technical approach, design decisions, engineering quality, and technical delivery. They lead project engineering teams and partner with a Project Manager or Project Coordinator on planning, scheduling, financial tracking, documentation, and coordination. The role involves designing, developing, configuring, testing, deploying, and supporting Ignition applications, as well as developing and integrating PLC, HMI/SCADA, and other control solutions across industries and processes. It also applies Industry 4.0, IIoT, IT, and emerging technologies where useful to customers, collaborating with engineering, operations, IT, and customer teams throughout the project lifecycle. Avanceon describes its culture as inclusive and supportive, with medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) contributions, flexible hours, work-from-home opportunities, casual dress, professional growth, social gatherings, book clubs, and ways to donate to charities. The company is an engineering firm serving manufacturers across varied industries and is an equal-opportunity employer.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition and implementation of production applications.
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.
Experience integrating SCADA applications with PLCs, industrial networks, databases, and plant or enterprise systems.
Working knowledge of SQL, scripting, and industrial communication protocols.
Comfort working directly with customers and communicating across engineering, IT, and operations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Schneider PLCs.
Ignition Gold Certification; equivalent demonstrated Ignition project experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

Work with customers to understand 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.
Travel to customer locations for project-related work.