Senior SCADA Engineer

About This Role

The Senior SCADA Engineer will design, develop, and maintain Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, primarily supporting municipal water and wastewater-treatment facilities. This role involves optimizing plant operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, and integrating new technologies to boost reliability and cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and maintain SCADA architectures for water & wastewater plants, including lift stations, pump stations, clarifiers, and digesters
• Develop HMI/GUI screens that clearly represent process equipment like influent pumps, aeration blowers, and UV disinfection banks
• Integrate SCADA platforms with Allen-Bradley PLCs/RTUs
• Oversee field installation, I/O check-out, loop calibration, and full functional testing at treatment plants and remote sites
• Perform routine firmware upgrades, tag database modifications, and network-switch patching
• Diagnose sensor issues, telemetry faults, and PLC/RTU failures to minimize plant downtime
• Produce P&IDs, network topologies, and control narratives; maintain redlines/as-builts
• Generate regulatory and operational reports (flow totals, chemical-feed rates, SCADA alarm histories)
• Coordinate with process, mechanical, and electrical engineers, integrators, and plant operators for seamless system performance
• Train plant staff on alarm management, trending, and basic HMI navigation
• Implement defense-in-depth cybersecurity measures (network segmentation, firewall rule-sets, VPN, multifactor authentication)

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing and supporting SCADA systems for water or wastewater-treatment plants or other continuous-process utilities
• Hands-on work with AVEVA System Platform
• Allen-Bradley programming experience
• Field startup/commissioning of process instrumentation
• Strong understanding of biological nutrient removal (BNR), aeration control, pump-station automation, and distributed telemetry networks
• Proficiency in SCADA-related programming/scripting (C#, VB.NET, Python, SQL, JavaScript for web HMIs)
• Solid grasp of industrial protocols: Modbus TCP/RTU, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, Profibus/Profinet, OPC UA/DA, MQTT/Sparkplug-B
• Networking fundamentals: managed Ethernet switches, VLANs, cellular/fiber backhaul, virtual private networks, and fail-over redundancy
• Cyber-secure architecture design per ISA/IEC 62443 and AWWA G430/G200 guidelines
• Ability to balance multiple projects and travel to facilities across the NYC metro area

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Control Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred)
• 8+ years designing and supporting SCADA systems for water or wastewater-treatment plants or other continuous-process utilities

Nice to Have

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Control Systems, or related field
• Prior experience with water/wastewater process control

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits

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