What are the responsibilities and job description for the SCADA / PLC Programmer position at Sequoia Connect?
Our client is an American company with more than 50 years of experience, dedicated to providing autonomy to the first line of retail/e-commerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, the public sector, and other industries to achieve a competitive advantage.
Our client has more than 10,000 partners and 8,000 employees in 100 countries, offering better visibility through integrated and customized solutions for each industry, which allow connecting people, assets, and data with intelligence that help make critical decisions for the business.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, modify, and troubleshoot PLC logic for manufacturing equipment and automated production processes.
- Configure and maintain SCADA / HMI screens, tags, alarms, data points, and equipment status monitoring.
- Define, map, and validate equipment signals / tags required for MES integration, production tracking, quality, traceability, and equipment status reporting.
- Troubleshoot communication and data-flow issues across equipment, PLC, SCADA, OPC / middleware, and MES interfaces.
- Support integration testing between shop-floor equipment and MES, including signal validation, handshake logic, error handling, and recovery scenarios.
- Work with equipment suppliers and controls engineers to review PLC / SCADA design, identify gaps, and implement required changes.
- Maintain version-controlled PLC / SCADA programs, change records, tag lists, interface specifications, and deployment / rollback procedures.
Requirements:
- 3 years of PLC, SCADA, industrial automation, or controls programming experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Hands-on experience developing and troubleshooting PLC logic using major industrial control platforms; the exact PLC vendor / programming environment is to be confirmed.
- Hands-on SCADA / HMI configuration and troubleshooting experience; the exact SCADA platform is to be confirmed.
- Experience with industrial communication protocols and connectivity such as OPC UA / DA, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, Modbus, or comparable technologies.
- Experience defining and troubleshooting equipment tags, signals, alarms, interlocks, handshakes, and production data collection.
- Understanding of MES-to-equipment integration patterns and shop-floor data flows.
- Ability to troubleshoot live production issues across controls, communications, SCADA, and application interfaces.
Languages:
English is required for working communication. Japanese communication capability is preferred.
Notes:
- On-site
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Keywords:
SCADA, PLC, MES, OPC, HMI
Requirements:
- 3 years of PLC, SCADA, industrial automation, or controls programming experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Hands-on experience developing and troubleshooting PLC logic using major industrial control platforms.
- Hands-on SCADA / HMI configuration and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with industrial communication protocols and connectivity such as OPC UA / DA, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, Modbus.
- Experience defining and troubleshooting equipment tags, signals, alarms, interlocks, handshakes, and production data collection.
- Understanding of MES-to-equipment integration patterns and shop-floor data flows.
- Ability to troubleshoot live production issues across controls, communications, SCADA, and application interfaces.