About the Role
Designs and maintains the diagnostic infrastructure ICON's fleet depends on, building troubleshooting tools, guided diagnostics, telemetry-sourced health monitoring dashboards, and data-driven predictive maintenance models. Serves as the escalation point for complex controls failures and technical authority for unresolved issues.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving PLCs, HMIs, SCADA and industrial communication protocols.
- Identify and report design, reliability, maintenance problems, or software bugs to engineering teams for root-cause analysis.
- Assist with control system networking issues, including configuring communication devices and integrating control hardware with enterprise systems.
- Respond to situations where first-line support cannot isolate or fix problems in malfunctioning control systems.
- Develop and deliver training for the Field Engineering team on control system operation, maintenance, and configuration.
- Serve as a technical liaison to customers, providing guidance on control system operation, maintenance, and configuration.
- Ensure control systems comply with safety and regulatory standards and advise customers on best practices for safe operation.
- Update knowledge base articles, create troubleshooting documentation, and share insights with global support teams.
- Stay current on emerging control technologies, PLC/HMI software, and industry trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, control systems engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in industrial automation or control systems support.
- Strong working knowledge of PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems and control network protocols.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose hardware, software and communication issues in control systems.
- Knowledge of safety regulations and standards for industrial control systems.
- Excellent communication and customer-service skills.
- Ability to manage customer expectations and document resolutions.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to maintain composure under pressure.
Skills
- PLCs
- HMIs
- SCADA systems
- Control network protocols
- Ethernet
- DeviceNet
- Twincat 3 Object Oriented Structured Text development
- 3d printing technology
- Electrical schematics
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
About the Company
- ICON is committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment.
Equal Opportunity
- ICON is an equal opportunity employer.
- Employment with ICON is based on merit, competence, and qualifications.
- It is our policy to administer all personnel actions, including recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
- Consistent with the obligations of these laws, ICON will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- As a federal government contractor, the Company maintains an affirmative action program which furthers its commitment and complies with recordkeeping and reporting requirements under certain federal civil rights laws and regulations, including Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as amended) and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (as amended).
