Industrial Network Automation Engineer

Title : Industrial Network Automation Engineer

Location : Remote in Texas

Direct hire, full-time position

For over 20 years our client has distributed products, offered technical support and provided IT services for wired and wireless machine networking applications. The service group provides customers with designs, deploys and supports open-architecture solutions for the manufacturing floor, process control systems and municipal control markets.

This position is responsible for the technical support, technical solution and development for systems that promote the customer's ruggedized networking strategy.

You can work remotely but should live or be willing to relocate to a city in Texas and willing to travel 50%.

Qualifications

• Technical, Engineering or Computer Science degree or equivalent educational background.
• Cisco Certified Professional is preferred.
• Experience with extensive networking solutions including routing and switching protocols, STP, MRP, REP, IGMP, SNMP, NAT, CDP, LLDP, SSH and VLAN configuration, etc.
• 3-5 years of experience implementing networking solutions in industrial and automation environments
• Experience with 802.11 wireless applications including bridging, routing and encryption
• Understanding of cellular networking applications including GSM, GPRS, EDVO, HSPA, HSUPA and LTE.
• Experience with onsite audits to gather information required for a recommended network design.
• Experience with industrial automation technologies such as PLC, DCS and SCADA.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with other associates.
• Proven technical writing skills for engineered solutions.
• Experience with project planning, documentation and scheduling a networking solution.
• Perform onsite project management for network equipment installation and manage team of installers to fiber a copper cabling standards.

Responsibilities

Additional Responsibilities