SCADA/HMI Platform Engineer

Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future. With a focus on national security and economic resiliency, we serve critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and automotive powering a high-technology future. Vulcan Elements is building a team of ambitious professionals committed to Mission Focus, Technical Excellence, and Transparency. 

As the SCADA/HMI Platform Engineer you will technically lead the selection of the SCADA, historian, and visualization stack - then own the selected platform end to end - for a massive 1 million square foot manufacturing facility expansion. You will author platform-neutral standards (tag/UDT structures, alarm philosophy, HMI style guide) ahead of the platform decision, design the supervisory architecture across a redundant server core and distributed plant network, and hold acceptance authority over every OEM- and integrator-delivered display. This is a high-impact, high-ownership architecture role. 

This role begins in Durham, NC and is expected to move to Benson, NC upon completion of new facility.

Responsibilities 

• Configure and maintain communications between PLCs/HMIs and higher level systems (MES/SCADA). Own tag/UDT standards, alarm configuration, historian data acquisition, faceplates, and store-and-forward reliability on the selected platform. Supporting SCADA tags, transactions, alarming, and data acquisition as required. 
• Hold screen and configuration acceptance authority for every OEM and integrator-delivered HMI/SCADA deliverable, verified at Factory and Site Acceptance Tests. 
• Serve as a senior-level escalation point for diagnosing complex SCADA, historian, and plant-data acquisition issues. 
• Design and maintain OEE, downtime data, and SCADA/Plant status interfaces increase visibility and actionable decision-making throughput, safety, and reliability. Own alarm management per ISA-18.2: philosophy authorship, the rationalization program run jointly with operations, and alarm performance KPI reporting. 
• Technically lead the SCADA/batch/historian platform evaluation - requirements, weighted criteria, structured proofs-of-concept on pilot infrastructure, and a defensible decision record  
• Stand up SCADA/historian environments ahead of site acceptance testing and direct system-integrator surge staff executing configuration under your standards. 
• Define historian collection standards with the Manufacturing Data & MES Engineering so contextualization needs drive collection design. 

Deliverables You Will Develop, Review, or Support 

• Integration of all manufacturing equipment, building management, utility systems, and QC lab interfaces to the selected SCADA system