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Staff Systems Engineer- Plant Floor Monitoring & Control
Jobs via Dice, Austin, Texas, us, 78716
Staff Systems Engineer – Plant Floor Monitoring & Control
Join General Motors as a Staff Systems Engineer responsible for design, development, and sustainment of plant floor monitoring and control applications across GM manufacturing plants in North America. You will pair hands‑on coding with cross‑functional leadership to deliver scalable capabilities that improve uptime, usability, deployment velocity, and data quality.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
Design, develop, and support plant floor monitoring and control applications, balancing legacy sustainment with modernization and standardization.
Architect and evolve SCADA solutions (e.g., GE CIMPLICITY), including point and alarm modeling, screen and navigation patterns, classes and attributes, global scripts, access models, high availability, and upgrade/migration execution.
Define sustainable connectivity patterns for PLC communication using industrial protocols; establish channel/device/tag standards, optimize performance, and govern configuration and security.
Collaborate on environment management and validation for plant deployments; drive repeatable buildout, configuration‑as‑code, and automated verification.
Partner with reporting and data teams to implement reliable data integration, including SQL Server development, interfaces to plant‑floor historians, and operational reporting enhancements.
Develop and optimize synchronous and asynchronous integrations using REST, messaging, and industrial data connectors; improve performance, resilience, and fault handling.
Troubleshoot and resolve software issues in both new and legacy systems; perform root‑cause analysis and proactive remediation of code quality, security, and usability concerns.
Automate unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing; promote testable architectures, quality gates, and continuous delivery of small, safe changes.
Provide technical guidance, mentoring, code reviews, and approvals to ensure alignment with GM standards and industry best practices; create clear technical documentation for designs and user guidance.
Contribute to roadmap definition, estimation, and incremental delivery; communicate status and risks transparently, and coordinate with plant stakeholders to align with production schedules.
Participate in on‑call rotation and support planned downtime windows, including off‑hours/holidays as needed to protect manufacturing schedules.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years delivering enterprise‑grade software in manufacturing environments, including SCADA‑driven plant floor monitoring/control solutions.
8+ years advanced development with .NET and C# for services/APIs and tooling, plus proficiency in at least one additional language (e.g., Python or Java) for automation, integration, or diagnostics.
Demonstrated leadership establishing technical direction or architecture for mission‑critical plant systems, with a track record improving reliability, performance, and operability.
Hands‑on expertise establishing and managing PLC communications via industrial protocols, including standardized channel/device/tag models, throughput benchmarking, performance tuning, and high availability.
Strong SQL Server engineering (schema design, stored procedures, performance analysis) and integration with plant‑floor historians and enterprise data consumers.
Operational leadership experience: on‑call participation, leading high‑severity incident response and post‑incident reviews, establishing telemetry/observability, and defining SLIs/SLOs for plant‑critical systems.
Security‑minded engineering and delivery practices, including secure configuration, secrets management and audibility.
Excellent documentation skills and the ability to produce clear system designs, runbooks, and user guidance, and to influence adoption of standards across teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience integrating with MES and historian ecosystems.
Familiarity with eventing/streaming or cloud data services (e.g., Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub, Functions) and modern observability practices.
Exposure to reporting tools and data visualization; comfort collaborating with data engineering/analytics teams.
Track record leading cross‑plant deployments, establishing standards, and driving measurable improvements in reliability, usability, and release velocity.
Willingness to write software and scripts to automate, integrate, and diagnose plant systems beyond configuration‑only SCADA engineering.
Benefits Overview From day one, GM supports your well‑being at work and at home so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non‑Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.) General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. All employment decisions are made on a non‑discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
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What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
Design, develop, and support plant floor monitoring and control applications, balancing legacy sustainment with modernization and standardization.
Architect and evolve SCADA solutions (e.g., GE CIMPLICITY), including point and alarm modeling, screen and navigation patterns, classes and attributes, global scripts, access models, high availability, and upgrade/migration execution.
Define sustainable connectivity patterns for PLC communication using industrial protocols; establish channel/device/tag standards, optimize performance, and govern configuration and security.
Collaborate on environment management and validation for plant deployments; drive repeatable buildout, configuration‑as‑code, and automated verification.
Partner with reporting and data teams to implement reliable data integration, including SQL Server development, interfaces to plant‑floor historians, and operational reporting enhancements.
Develop and optimize synchronous and asynchronous integrations using REST, messaging, and industrial data connectors; improve performance, resilience, and fault handling.
Troubleshoot and resolve software issues in both new and legacy systems; perform root‑cause analysis and proactive remediation of code quality, security, and usability concerns.
Automate unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing; promote testable architectures, quality gates, and continuous delivery of small, safe changes.
Provide technical guidance, mentoring, code reviews, and approvals to ensure alignment with GM standards and industry best practices; create clear technical documentation for designs and user guidance.
Contribute to roadmap definition, estimation, and incremental delivery; communicate status and risks transparently, and coordinate with plant stakeholders to align with production schedules.
Participate in on‑call rotation and support planned downtime windows, including off‑hours/holidays as needed to protect manufacturing schedules.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years delivering enterprise‑grade software in manufacturing environments, including SCADA‑driven plant floor monitoring/control solutions.
8+ years advanced development with .NET and C# for services/APIs and tooling, plus proficiency in at least one additional language (e.g., Python or Java) for automation, integration, or diagnostics.
Demonstrated leadership establishing technical direction or architecture for mission‑critical plant systems, with a track record improving reliability, performance, and operability.
Hands‑on expertise establishing and managing PLC communications via industrial protocols, including standardized channel/device/tag models, throughput benchmarking, performance tuning, and high availability.
Strong SQL Server engineering (schema design, stored procedures, performance analysis) and integration with plant‑floor historians and enterprise data consumers.
Operational leadership experience: on‑call participation, leading high‑severity incident response and post‑incident reviews, establishing telemetry/observability, and defining SLIs/SLOs for plant‑critical systems.
Security‑minded engineering and delivery practices, including secure configuration, secrets management and audibility.
Excellent documentation skills and the ability to produce clear system designs, runbooks, and user guidance, and to influence adoption of standards across teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience integrating with MES and historian ecosystems.
Familiarity with eventing/streaming or cloud data services (e.g., Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub, Functions) and modern observability practices.
Exposure to reporting tools and data visualization; comfort collaborating with data engineering/analytics teams.
Track record leading cross‑plant deployments, establishing standards, and driving measurable improvements in reliability, usability, and release velocity.
Willingness to write software and scripts to automate, integrate, and diagnose plant systems beyond configuration‑only SCADA engineering.
Benefits Overview From day one, GM supports your well‑being at work and at home so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non‑Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.) General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. All employment decisions are made on a non‑discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
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