Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or engineering
Experience with AVEVA, Ignition, PLC tags required
Willingness to travel at least 50% also required
Scope & Ownership
Own end-to-end data flow from OT historians (PI, Aveva, Ignition) to analytics and reporting environments.
Design, script, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for historian-to-cloud data movement using Python, SQL, and AWS services.
Develop reusable data models, APIs, and standardized data structures for use across plants and digital platforms.
Troubleshoot and resolve data flow disruptions, historian tag failures, and dashboard refresh issues.
Collaborate with plant engineers, OT, and IT teams to maintain secure, standardized, and reliable data pipelines.
Tools, Tech Stack & Standards
This role operates across a comprehensive industrial analytics ecosystem, connecting OT data systems with enterprise analytics and cloud platforms. The engineer will begin by stabilizing existing infrastructure and progress into modernizing and evaluating new tools and integrations.
OT & Historian Layer: AVEVA PI System / AF, Aveva Insight, Ignition (Vision, Perspective, Tag Historian).
Data Transformation: SQL and Python for modeling, scripting, and automation.
Cloud Integration: AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, IoT Core) for data storage, transformation, and orchestration.
Governance: Implement and enforce data naming conventions, lineage documentation, and retention policies.
Automation: Develop and maintain automated ETL pipelines and data orchestration workflows.
Expected Outcomes & Deliverables
Deliver automated, validated, and standardized dashboards and reports for OEE, downtime, scrap, and energy KPIs.
Develop APIs and data connectors to share information across MES, CMMS, and other digital platforms.
Ensure data models and structures are AI-ready for future machine-learning applications.
Standardize KPI definitions and data models across plants, allowing variation only where process differences require.
Integrate analytics and insights into operational processes and decision-making workflows.
Mentor junior analysts and plant associates, building local data literacy and self-service analytics capabilities.
Organizational Fit & Growth
This role is positioned within the OT and Operations organization, acting as a bridge across Operations, IT, and Engineering. The Controls Engineer will work horizontally across multiple functions to ensure data flows seamlessly and securely from the plant floor to enterprise analytics platforms.
Reports to: OT and Operations organization.
Collaborates with IT for ERP, AWS, and network integrations.
Works with Engineering at the plant level for PLC-to-server and OT network data reliability.
Initial focus: Stabilize and standardize data flows and dashboards across plants.
Long-term evolution: Grow into Data Architecture and Systems Strategy leadership, defining enterprise standards for OT data.
Future collaboration: Partner with external AI specialists when the organization moves into predictive a
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
Prysmian is the world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry. Each year Prysmian manufacturers thousands of miles of underground and submarine cables and systems for power transmission and distribution , as well as medium low voltage cables for the construction and infrastructure sectors. We also produce a comprehensive range of optical fibers, copper cables and connectivity for voice, video, and data transmission for the telecommunication sector .
We are 30,000 employees, across 50+ countries. Everyone at Prysmian has the potential to make their mark; because whatever you do, wherever you are based, you will be part of a company that is helping transform the world around us. Make Your Mark at Prysmian!
Role Purpose
The Industrial Data Engineer will serve as the technical and analytical bridge between Operations Technology (OT) and enterprise analytics. This role owns the end-to-end flow of operational data-from historians and SCADA systems through to cloud storage and business intelligence-transforming raw plant data into trusted, actionable insights that power operational excellence and future AI initiatives across the organization.
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