Vulcan Elements
Digital Manufacturing Lead - SCADA, MES & Data
Research Triangle Park, NC +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Research Triangle Park, NC
Durham, North Carolina, United States - Experience
- 8+ years across industrial automation, manufacturing systems, and plant data platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
About the job
Leads the architecture, implementation, and engineering team for SCADA, batch execution, MES, historian, and plant data systems for a large manufacturing facility.
What you'll do
- Own the plant digital manufacturing architecture, including system responsibilities, equipment normalization, redundancy, and integration.
- Lead MES implementation, plant information modeling, and reporting for production, genealogy, OEE, downtime, yield, and quality.
- Manage and develop SCADA, MES, and data engineers; oversee system integrators and vendors, including delivery and knowledge transfer.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
- Architecture-level ownership of SCADA, MES/MOM, historian, or plant data platforms, including a system designed by the candidate that remains in production.
- Hands-on depth in two or more supervisory or manufacturing systems ecosystems; production-level OPC UA and MQTT/Sparkplug B experience; proficiency with industrial communication standards.
- Working fluency in ISA-95 and ISA-88, strong SQL and data modeling skills, and demonstrated engineering leadership; must be a U.S. Person.
Nice to have
- Experience with batch systems such as Sepasoft, FactoryTalk Batch, or WinCC Unified SIQUENCE; greenfield scale-up, hybrid batch/discrete processes, or heterogeneous OEM integration.
- Historian architecture at scale, platform migration, relevant industrial or regulated-industry experience, and familiarity with Python or other high-level languages.
Tools
SCADA, MES/MOM, Ignition, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens WinCC Unified/Opcenter, AVEVA, OPC UA, MQTT/Sparkplug B
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