Sr. MES SCADA Analyst | $48 - $57/hr
26 days ago
Tulsa
Job DescriptionKey Personnel is seeking a Senior MES SCADA Analyst for a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer supporting a large-scale digital transformation initiative across multiple manufacturing facilities. Senior MES SCADA Analyst Pay: $48/hr -$57/hr Senior MES SCADA Analyst Hours: 5:00am-3:30 pm, Monday- Thursday, with overtime on Fridays. Senior MES SCADA Analyst Responsibilities: • Define and lead a five-year MES/SCADA roadmap to support long-term IT integration and evolving plant needs across five manufacturing facilities, • Establish enterprise MES/SCADA architecture, governance standards, and compliance processes, including forming a community of practice and review committees, • Design and develop scalable, cost-effective MES/SCADA solutions that integrate plant controllers, HMIs, networks, firewalls, annunciators, and IT systems, • Coordinate technical discussions, vendor evaluations, and contract negotiations, • Monitor and apply emerging Manufacturing IT trends including Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, cybersecurity, data integrity, and data standardization, • Define, implement, and enforce policies for installation, maintenance, upgrades, and IT integration of manufacturing control systems, • Perform system analysis and program reviews to ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and security, • Assess systems for efficiency and compliance with industry standards such as NIST, ISA-95, and IEC 62443, • Develop cost-effective proposals, prototypes, and solution alternatives to validate concepts prior to full deployment, • Collaborate with automation engineers, process engineers, IT teams, and plant leadership to deliver projects on time and within budget, • Guide implementation activities including network configuration, software integration, and firewall administration, • Utilize standard project management practices including budgeting, forecasting, risk management, scheduling, and stakeholder communication, • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including system configurations, network diagrams, schematics, data flow diagrams, and operating procedures, • Provide training and ongoing support for MES and SCADA users, • Support plant operations during system rollouts and ongoing production activities, • Lead troubleshooting, emergency response planning, backup strategies, and upgrade planning, • Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering-related field, • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, • Proven experience supporting discrete manufacturing environments, • Demonstrated experience driving process improvement and organizational change initiatives, • Strong background in MES/SCADA architecture, PLC-based control systems, HMI development, and industrial communication protocols, • Experience integrating MES with ERP systems, quality systems, automation, and IT infrastructure, • Solid understanding of software release management across development, QA, and production environments, • Knowledge of industry standards and best practices including security, redundancy, high availability, monitoring, and archiving, • Ability to form roadmaps aligned with broader enterprise strategies, • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, build trust, and set expectations, • Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to work in complex, ambiguous environments, • SQL Server and programming languages such as Python, • Experience with ISA-95 standards, • Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies, • Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 initiatives, • Rockwell FactoryTalk ProductionCentre (MES) – required, • Inductive Automation Ignition (SCADA) – required, • IIoT integration – required, • Programming languages: C#, Java, C++, VBA/VBScript, Python – required, • Familiarity with remote access tools (VPN, VDI, video conferencing) – required, • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, Visio, SQL, and related tools – required, • PINpoint MES – preferred, • Cloud computing solutions – preferred