What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr SCADA Analyst position at The City of Fort Worth?
Pay Range: $89,164 - $115,914
Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
Fort Worth Water is seeking an experienced Senior Business Process and SCADA Analyst to lead the deployment, integration, and long-term performance of a modernized SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) platform across the city's water and wastewater infrastructure.
This high-impact role will serve as the technical lead and project manager for our department-wide SCADA HMI replacement initiative, guiding the migration to Ignition software. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in PLC programming, SCADA architecture, and real-time data acquisition systems—with a strong understanding of how control systems support municipal water and wastewater operations.
As part of the Strategic Operations SCADA Section, you will oversee the design, commissioning, and continuous improvement of automation systems across treatment plants, pump stations, and remote telemetry units (RTUs). You'll play a key role in enhancing system reliability, cybersecurity, and data accuracy to support operational excellence throughout the utility.
This role is ideal for a SCADA professional who thrives at the intersection of technical engineering and automation strategy, and who is ready to shape the future of utility-wide process control for one of the nation's largest municipal water departments.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
- At least five (5) years of SCADA experience.
- Valid Driver's License.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Five (5) to seven (7) years of experience in programming, operation and maintenance of plant electronic and computerized process control or SCADA systems in water and wastewater treatment plant.
- Experience working with Control Systems/SCADA integration projects. Experience with Ignition a plus.
- Municipal water/wastewater experience a plus.
The Sr SCADA Analyst job responsibilities include:
- Manage the successful implementation of the SCADA HMI Replacement project and integrate SCADA system into the new Ignition software. The project role requires planning, implementation, installation and commissioning of the software with an Integrator Contractor. Project management includes coordination/scheduling meetings, attending factory acceptance tests, review of SCADA submittals and deliverables, check hardware and communication requirements, and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) interface requirements
- Operate and maintain the new Ignition system for data reliability and comprehensive data collection. Support the new system by applying robust cyber security best practices (on the system/application level), software and hardware troubleshooting, and day-to-day SCADA operation and maintenance.
- Continuously evaluate the SCADA system security measures, perform continuous testing to evaluate system performance, create ad-hoc reports and data request from other divisions, create new script/programs for system improvements and support system interface to and from the data lake.
- Lead SCADA system commissioning for all facilities, perform trainings to operators, oversee and coordinate a variety of duties related to SCADA, instrumentation, PLCs in the plant, Remote Telemetry Units (RTUs) in remote sites and other automated controls.
- Maintain good record of historical system implementation plus planning of the latest upgrades to assist with scheduled and unscheduled improvements and/or projects.
- Advanced skillset on latest SCADA platform, scripting language, secured network, cyber security, and server to client encryptions.
- Schedule and review SCADA/PLC tags mapping, communication settings, SCADA screens and database creations.
- Assure successful integration of new facilities into the existing SCADA architecture.
- Working knowledge of SCADA, PLC and OIT software and programming preferably in Ignition.
Apply Now! Come be part of something special in Fort Worth.
Working Conditions
Depending on assignment, positions in the class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.
Physical Demand
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions it this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.
Salary : $89,164 - $115,914
