Company Description
Working at Knobelsdorff (KE)
Along with building state-of-the-art projects, we build meaningful careers, lasting opportunities, and teams of dedicated individuals who truly own their work. As a leading turnkey specialty contractor specializing in Automation, Electric, Energy, and Power Services, our team tackles challenging, cutting-edge projects that provide opportunities to build new skills, confidence, and gain valuable hands-on experience in a variety of different industries. We tackle industrial electrical installations, advanced automation systems, and renewable energy solutions.
Since our founding as a family-owned company in 1988, we've grown while staying true to our core value. Starting your career with KE means joining a culture that values your contributions, moves quickly, takes calculated risks, and celebrates team members who step up and own their work.
If you're ready to join a team where your voice matters, your growth is supported, and your impact is celebrated, KE is the place for you.
Job Description
Job Purpose
This role supports KE Automation by leading the design, implementation, and verification of SCADA applications for industrial processes and data center controls. You'll be responsible for developing supervisory control systems, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering reliable visualization solutions that directly impact project success, operator effectiveness, and customer satisfaction. Success in this role means delivering scalable, dependable, and user-focused SCADA systems while ensuring quality standards are met throughout project execution, all while upholding KE's commitment to Safety, People, Passion, and Performance. If you're someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while leading others to success, this position is built for you.
What You'll Do
You'll be part of a team that gets things done, works with purpose, and takes pride in the results. Your day-to-day responsibilities may include:
- Lead the design and development of SCADA applications for industrial and mission-critical environments
- Create operator displays, alarms, trends, reporting, and historical data solutions
- Develop reusable templates, graphics, scripts, and engineering standards
- Coordinate integration with PLCs, industrial networks, databases, and third-party systems
- Implement role-based access, security controls, backup, and recovery strategies
- Lead testing activities including FAT, SAT, failover, and recovery verification
- Review technical deliverables and mentor junior engineers on SCADA best practices
- Support commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, and customer handoff activities
- Provide project estimates, coordinate dependencies, and communicate technical progress
- Continuously improve engineering standards, application quality, and operator usability
Qualifications
What You Bring
You’re someone who shows up ready to work hard, learn fast, and contribute to a team that takes pride in doing things right. Successful candidates typically bring:
- 7+ years of SCADA, HMI, or industrial supervisory engineering experience, including experience leading technical delivery efforts
- Bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Experience leading SCADA projects through design, testing, commissioning, and handover
- Strong expertise in graphics, scripting, alarms, trends, historians, and reporting systems
- Experience integrating PLCs, industrial networks, and communication systems
- Knowledge of databases, deployment environments, backup, recovery, and cybersecurity concepts
- Experience with peer reviews, configuration management, testing, and controlled software releases
- Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, and mentoring skills
Pay Range
We believe in paying for the value you bring to the team, and we aim to be competitive in every market we hire in.
Pay Range: $150,841.00-$164,388.00 per year
Total Rewards Statement
As a full-time employee at KE, you'll have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and future.
- 100% employer-paid health and dental coverage for employees
- HSA contributions to support your medical expenses
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- 401(k) with competitive company match
- Paid weekly with competitive wages
- PTO, six paid holidays, and education reimbursement
- Exclusive employee discounts through Working Advantage
We believe your work should be rewarded with more than just a paycheck. At KE, we invest in your total wellbeing.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be provided for individuals with disabilities.
Typical requirements may include:
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, and stoop for extended periods
- Ability to navigate manufacturing facilities, customer locations, and project sites
- Ability to carry laptops, project documentation, and equipment required for site visits
- Ability to wear required PPE while working in industrial environments
- Ability to travel to customer and project sites as needed
Accessibility: If you need accommodations as part of the employment process, please contact KE Human Resources at [email protected].
Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
KE is an EEO to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local law.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws:
- EEO is the Law (English/Spanish)
KE E-Verify
KE participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States. For more information about E-Verify, please review the E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters.
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