Electrical Engineer

Company: Gables Search Group
Location: Vineland
Posted on: May 26, 2023

Job Description:

Electrical Operation Technology Engineer in southern New Jersey (about an hour south of Philadelphia, PA) with a global manufacturing company! This is a permanent position with full benefits starting minute one day one including unlimited PTO and relocation, if needed. You will have multi-plant responsibility for a plant in Southern New Jersey, Western Pennsylvania and Northern Florida.

Operations Technology Engineer will be the single point of contact for deploying Operational Technology strategy in a manufacturing plant and work as a liaison between plant operations and the central automation team.

OTE will maximize the availability of industrial automation systems (Hardware, Network, Scada Software, Database, Integration of new components and solutions) and use cybersecurity tools (Claroty, Factory Talk Security, Factory Talk Asset Center) for threat mitigation and unauthorized access to industrial control systems.

Job Specifications:

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, ambiguous issues and escalate when necessary
• Project Management related to industrial networking, applications upgrade / deployments
• Industrial Automation Asset Management using Claotry / SolarWinds
• Management of vendor access in PLC and Scada application
• Continuous improvement of Cybersecurity KPI (Vulnerability mitigation, threat detection, access management)
• Maintain and update industrial automation architecture
• Industrial automation hardware and software life cycle management
• Organize windows patch install in industrial automation servers and workstations with the Americas server infrastructure team
• Master plan development for industrial networking and industrial applications roadmap
• Share knowledge and learnings through company North America networking
• Enforce company North America automation standards / specifications
• Identify opportunities to evolve applications by proposing improvement actions to the Manager to satisfy business needs according to OT and IT standards
• Identify and communicate breakdowns and gaps in performance with respective personnel / systems
• Facilitate meetings regarding continuous improvement of system performance Experience Requirement:
  
  • 5-7 years of job experience in operations technology Educational Requirement:
    
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/Management Information System, Electrical Engineering or any related field
    • Minimum of 5 years of experience in food manufacturing related to information systems and automation technologies OR minimum of 10 years of experience in food manufacturing related to information systems and automation technologies in lieu of degree Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
      
      • Experience and working knowledge in plant wide automation network design
      • Experience and working knowledge in logic controller communications
      • Experience and working knowledge of Allen Bradley/ Rockwell PLC programming
      • Experience and working knowledge in Industrial networking
      • Experience and working knowledge in Auto Cad and Microsoft Visio
      • Experience and working knowledge of the following distributed Scada systems such as Inductive Automation's Ignition Platform, Wonderware System platform, Factory Talk View SE
      • Experience and working knowledge in Microsoft Office suite and windows operating system
      • Must be highly self-directed and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
      • Must be organized and self-disciplined to accommodate the management of concurrent multiple projects.
      • Excellent conflict resolution and interpersonal skills.
      • Experience in IT and OT network segregation using Purdue model
      • Fast learner, open to learn new things (attending training & certification related to the role as needed) and adapts to change Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
        
        • ISA/IES 62443 Cybersecurity Certification is a plus

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