What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ignition Engineer ( Deployment & Validation) - 67416 position at Hitachi Digital Services?
Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job Description
Meet Our Team
You will join a dynamic Industrial Digitalization and Manufacturing Technology team responsible for delivering next-generation SCADA and MES solutions across manufacturing operations. The team partners closely with Plant Operations, Controls Engineering, Manufacturing IT, Automation Engineers, and Business Stakeholders to ensure seamless deployment, integration, and validation of critical production systems.
Our Focus Is On
As an Ignition Engineer, you will be responsible for the onsite deployment, commissioning, validation, and go-live support of Ignition-based SCADA/MES solutions within manufacturing environments.
Key Responsibilities
Required Experience
Ignition Platform
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job Description
Meet Our Team
You will join a dynamic Industrial Digitalization and Manufacturing Technology team responsible for delivering next-generation SCADA and MES solutions across manufacturing operations. The team partners closely with Plant Operations, Controls Engineering, Manufacturing IT, Automation Engineers, and Business Stakeholders to ensure seamless deployment, integration, and validation of critical production systems.
Our Focus Is On
- Deploying and commissioning Ignition-based SCADA/MES solutions
- Enabling real-time visibility into manufacturing operations
- Supporting digital transformation initiatives across production environments
- Ensuring system reliability, data integrity, and operational excellence
- Driving successful go-live execution and production readiness
- Collaborating with plant-floor teams to optimize manufacturing processes
As an Ignition Engineer, you will be responsible for the onsite deployment, commissioning, validation, and go-live support of Ignition-based SCADA/MES solutions within manufacturing environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy and commission Ignition Gateway, Perspective applications, projects, tags, scripts, and database connections in production environments
- Validate end-to-end data flow between PLCs, plant equipment, Ignition, historians, MES systems, dashboards, alarms, and reporting platforms
- Execute Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)
- Support production readiness reviews, go-live activities, hypercare, and post-deployment stabilization
- Troubleshoot deployment and integration issues involving:
- OPC UA and MQTT communications
- Network connectivity
- Database integrations
- Security configurations
- Client performance issues
- Verify tag configurations, alarming functionality, scripting logic, and Perspective screen behavior under real manufacturing conditions
- Support cutover planning, rollback procedures, and risk mitigation activities
- Document testing outcomes, defects, corrective actions, validation evidence, and deployment records
- Collaborate with operations, maintenance, controls engineering, and IT teams to validate manufacturing workflows and production tracking processes
- Ensure production reporting, historian data, and operational dashboards accurately reflect plant-floor activities
Required Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Ignition 8.1 deployments and commissioning activities
- Proven experience implementing and validating SCADA and MES solutions within manufacturing environments
- Experience supporting onsite commissioning, startup, and production go-live activities
- Strong understanding of industrial automation, manufacturing systems, and plant-floor operations
- Experience performing end-to-end validation, testing, defect management, and production support
Ignition Platform
- Ignition Gateway deployment and configuration
- Project publishing and client rollout
- Perspective application validation
- Tag configuration and management
- Alarm management and event validation
- Security configuration and role-based access controls
- Gateway scripting and runtime troubleshooting
- Python (Jython) scripting within Ignition
- SQL development and database troubleshooting
- Stored procedures, queries, and data validation
- Data integrity verification across multiple databases and MES tables
- SCADA and MES deployment and validation
- Historian integration and data verification
- Real-time manufacturing data processing
- PLC integration and plant-floor connectivity
- Industrial communication protocols:
- OPC UA
- MQTT
- Test planning and execution
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)
- Defect tracking and remediation
- Validation documentation and evidence collection
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities
- Ability to work effectively in live manufacturing and production environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills
- Experience collaborating with operations, maintenance, controls, engineering, and IT teams
- Ability to manage multiple deployment activities while maintaining quality and compliance standards
- Strong documentation and reporting skills
- Experience with Ignition security models and role-based access validation
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for Perspective customization validation
- Experience with FTP/SFTP integrations and file-based data exchange
- Understanding of manufacturing KPIs, OEE, and production tracking systems
- Familiarity with commissioning packages, traceability matrices, and validation documentation
- Experience supporting Dev/Test/Production environment promotion strategies
- Knowledge of production cutover planning, hypercare, and post-go-live support activities
- Exposure to large-scale manufacturing digital transformation initiatives and smart factory deployments
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.