Job description

SCADA Automation Engineer, Hybrid Remote (Electric Power & Water)

Pay: $60,000-$120,000/year (approx $25-60/hr)

Benefits:

• Work from home
• Health Insurance, Vision, and Dental allowance
• Remote telecommuting from home (hybrid remote with onsite work 25%)
• No daily commute
• Flexible schedule (e.g. work week of 4 days or 6 hour days, taking days off as needed, etc.)
• Paid overtime
• Paid travel time
• Paid overnight lodging
• Paid overnight food per diem
• Paid learning opportunities and training courses for certifications, e.g. get paid to learn and get certified in Ignition
• Bonuses based on performance

Schedule: Full Time, Day shift M-F (start at 7am, work week of 4 days or 6 hour days possible, longer days and overtime for startup weeks)

Hybrid remote based in any of these areas:

• Los Angeles, CA
• Culver City, CA (near Inglewood, CA)
• Riverside, CA
• near Big Bear, CA
• Boston, MA or New York, NY (near Martha's Vineyard, MA)
• open to other locations if you have SCADA specific experience

Requirements:

• Travel (25%) to client locations to perform installations & upgrades. Clients are water and electric companies located in Inglewood, CA and Big Bear, CA.
• Able to work overtime (e.g. 40-60 hours) during "startup" weeks, usually 2 weeks every 2-4 months

Required Skills:

• PLC programming best practices, use of Add-On Instructions, etc.
• HMI/SCADA/PLC hardware/software design and development for SEL, SEL RTAC, SEL RTAC HMI, Ignition, Factory Talk, Allen Bradley PLCs (RSLogix Studio 5000, PLC5 a plus) or Modicon
• Creating HMI screens and assigning tags, High performance HMI design best practices
• Using P&ID to create controls narrative, read and interpret electric schematic drawings and P&ID's to identify, troubleshoot, and repair systems
• Communication protocols - DNP, Modbus
• Layer 2 & 3 networking, experience with RUGGEDCOM switches a plus
• Project management experience
• Development of project proposals and estimates
• Documentation for programming and design changes, taking meeting minutes
• Field experience working in SCADA, startup, testing, and commissioning best practices for automation systems
• Industrial control systems programming and design
• Python, SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)
• Object oriented programming best practices, template/class design
• Knowledge of electricity, voltage, and current relationships

Other Skills:

• PID control loop tuning
• VFD drive communication and testing
• Markup/update drawings, AutoCAD
• Device and instrumentation configuration
• understanding of circuits, I/O verification, or using a multimeter to test signals (for example if you have experience working at a factory, HVAC, motors, actuators, pumps, panels, generators, etc.)

Soft skills for success:

• A love for problem-solving and the puzzle of engineering
• Attention to detail (including Quality Assurance checklists)
• A positive outlook and eagerness to learn while able to give and receive constructive criticism
• Willingness to learn new technologies and take initiatives, drive
• Ability to collaborate with internal/external teams across various types of businesses
• Proven analytic skills; data-driven and detail-oriented
• Ability to handle multiple projects (e.g. working on projects for 2-3 different customers means working on one but remembering to follow up with another that same day, or working on 1 project in the morning and switching gears to work on a different project later that day while waiting for a call back for example)
• Taking ownership and being self-motivated, ability to manage calendar of appointments to set priority for tasks and remember to follow up
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance and reviews
• Being proactive as issues arise
• Work safely and responsibly
• Demonstrate expertise and communicate well with customers
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills

With your reply, please include:

1) Resume

2) Brief cover letter and explanation of where you're at currently and what you're hoping to do and learn next in your career. Why are you applying?

3) Preferred hourly range to start and where you'd like to be in 1 year.

4) Are you able to travel to Inglewood, CA and/or Big Bear, CA?

5) Please list the days of the week and time ranges that you're usually free to talk on the phone to set up an interview.

About Us:

https://www.s-tekk.com/

Stellar Technology & Automation is a growing engineering services company founded in 2022 by 2 engineers with a combined 25 years of experience. We do controls engineering for electric power, water and wastewater, and manufacturing. We’re adding to our team to support our customers' project needs.

We build fully integrated, information-driven, and sustainable SCADA systems for electric power, water, and manufacturing. By sharing our expertise and partnering with customers we are uniquely positioned to help, we deliver quality-assured solutions for real-world problems.

A great resume builder – we're designing an HMI system for the United States’ first commercial-scale offshore wind farm: https://www.vineyardwind.com/vineyardwind-1

What is SCADA? https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/article/what-is-scada

Values:

When the Stellar Technology & Automation team takes on a project, our approach is centered around the following guiding principles:

Alignment
We set ourselves up for success by reaching a consensus around clear requirements, and then tracking progress by those requirements throughout the project. At the start of each partnership, we invest a thoughtful amount of time understanding our customers’ needs, distilling them into an actionable roadmap, and getting a holistic sense of what project success looks like. By aligning on the goals we’re working towards, we stay on schedule, keep within scope, and better focus everyone’s time and efforts.

Relationship
Delivering a successful project involves building a deep collaborative relationship with our customers – one where everyone feels comfortable sharing ideas and discussing feedback. No matter what phase of the project we’re in, our customers always have a direct line to our team, and can depend on us to pick up the phone and lend our undivided attention. The size of our team also allows us to focus our expertise on fewer, deeper, customer relationships. We can respond with short lead times, adapt to shifting needs, and deliver our best work.

Teaching
Sharing our past successes to help customers make better future decisions is good business for everyone. Whether you want support implementing a tried-and-true solution, experimenting with a state-of-the-art alternative, or learning about emerging technologies, we love sharing our expertise. By drawing from our case studies, we provide our customers with the insights to help them grow – for the current project and beyond.

Quality
We take pride in the caliber of our work, and have a track record of delivering secure, reliable, and scalable systems to customers. At every phase of development, we view our work through the lens of iteration, improvement, and quality assurance. We validate our work against industry standards, and deliver sustainable solutions that can be easily maintained.

These guiding values – Alignment, Relationship, Teaching, and Quality – drive our daily operations and inform our decisions at every level. They direct our focus to the right areas and clarify our priorities when delivering high-quality systems for our customers.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Choose your own hours
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• No weekends
• Overtime

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chino, CA 91710

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