SCADA Specialist/Technician - BCRUA Water Treatment Plant

City of Round Rock•Cedar Park, TX

23d•Onsite

About The Position

The City of Round Rock and the BCRUA are hiring a SCADA Specialist or Technician to support safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the BCRUA water treatment facilities in Cedar Park. Depending on qualifications and experience, the role may be filled at either level. The work is performed under general supervision. The SCADA Technician supports the SCADA system through equipment calibration, maintenance and troubleshooting, technical support, responding to outages and equipment failures, coordinating work, and documenting activities. Duties include developing and editing code, querying and archiving historian data, and working with Ignition Vision, INSQL, and Modicon Concept. The technician diagnoses and repairs equipment using schematics, monitoring software, and digital test equipment; performs routine and visual inspections; installs weatherization; and builds, tests, deploys, and integrates SCADA field and human-machine-interface components. The role also maintains UPS equipment and calibrates instruments. Work may involve climbing storage tanks and working in confined spaces. The SCADA Specialist supports the system by implementing programming modifications, developing installations, troubleshooting controls and related components, and participating in project design and execution. The specialist develops, updates, and maintains SCADA programming, computers, software, databases, and related systems; performs testing, troubleshooting, calibration, installation, enhancement, and repair; and assists with engineering design, technical reviews, and SCADA-related capital improvement projects. The specialist maintains the database that collects, reports, and archives data required by regulatory agencies, produces internal and external reports, maintains UPS equipment, and calibrates and documents process-monitoring equipment. The stated hiring ranges are $54,080–$66,040 for the SCADA Technician and $64,480–$78,000 for the SCADA Specialist. Pay offered is based on experience.

Requirements

SCADA Technician: Two-year associate's degree, diploma, or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school.
SCADA Technician: At least one year of experience as a SCADA technician or in a similar position.
SCADA Specialist: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; additional work experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.
SCADA Specialist: At least two years of experience as a SCADA technician or in a similar position.
Class C Texas Driver's License, or ability to obtain one before employment.
Obtain a Surface Water C or Water Distribution Operator C certification from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality within two years of employment.

Responsibilities

Support the SCADA system through equipment calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical support.
Respond to SCADA outages and equipment failures, coordinate work, and document work activities.
Develop new SCADA code; query historian data; edit and archive programs; and work with Ignition Vision, INSQL, and Modicon Concept.
Diagnose, repair, replace, and reprogram SCADA equipment using schematic drawings, monitoring software, and digital test equipment.
Perform routine maintenance and visual or machine-aided inspections; install and inspect weatherization.
Assemble, test, deploy, and integrate SCADA components, including field and human-machine-interface equipment.
Maintain UPS equipment by assessing capacity, replacing batteries when needed, and replacing failed units.
Use test equipment to perform periodic instrument calibrations and verify that monitoring equipment is within limits; direct others in calibrations where applicable.
Implement programming modifications, develop new installations, and troubleshoot control systems and related components.
Develop, update, and maintain SCADA programming, computers, software, and systems, including testing and upgrades.
Assist with engineering design, technical reviews, and installation of SCADA-related capital improvement projects.
Configure and maintain the database system that collects, reports, and archives data required by regulatory agencies.
Produce internal and external reports.
Document calibration results for process-monitoring equipment.