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Ignition Engineer ( Deployment & Validation) - 67416
Location: Remote -, South Carolina, United States
Job ID: R0134603
Date Posted: Jun 16, 2026
Company Name: Hitachi Digital Services LLC
Profession (Job Category): IT, Telecom & Internet
Job Type (Experience Level): Experienced
Job Schedule: Full time
Remote: Yes
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Job Description:
Function
IoT
Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job description
Meet Our Team
You will join a dynamic Industrial Digitalization and Manufacturing Technology team responsible for delivering next-generation SCADA and MES solutions across manufacturing operations. The team partners closely with Plant Operations, Controls Engineering, Manufacturing IT, Automation Engineers, and Business Stakeholders to ensure seamless deployment, integration, and validation of critical production systems.
Our focus is on:
What You'll Be Doing
As an Ignition Engineer, you will be responsible for the onsite deployment, commissioning, validation, and go-live support of Ignition-based SCADA/MES solutions within manufacturing environments.
Key Responsibilities
Deploy and commission Ignition Gateway, Perspective applications, projects, tags, scripts, and database connections in production environments
Validate end-to-end data flow between PLCs, plant equipment, Ignition, historians, MES systems, dashboards, alarms, and reporting platforms
Execute Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)
Support production readiness reviews, go-live activities, hypercare, and post-deployment stabilization
Troubleshoot deployment and integration issues involving:
OPC UA and MQTT communications
Network connectivity
Database integrations
Security configurations
Client performance issues
Verify tag configurations, alarming functionality, scripting logic, and Perspective screen behavior under real manufacturing conditions
Support cutover planning, rollback procedures, and risk mitigation activities
Document testing outcomes, defects, corrective actions, validation evidence, and deployment records
Collaborate with operations, maintenance, controls engineering, and IT teams to validate manufacturing workflows and production tracking processes
Ensure production reporting, historian data, and operational dashboards accurately reflect plant-floor activities
What You'll Bring to the Team
Required Experience
Technical Expertise
Ignition Platform
Programming & Database Skills
Industrial Systems & Integration
Testing & Validation
Professional Skills
Nice to Have
#L1-RS2
About us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
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