About the position
Your responsibilities and tasks
IT/OT Connectivity & Site Readiness
- Assess and support site connectivity requirements (network architecture, ports/protocols, remote access, VPN).
- Configure and validate secure VPN access in line with internal and customer cybersecurity requirements.
- Coordinate approvals, access and test windows with internal and customer stakeholders.
- Confirm data sources and connectivity for PLC/SCADA/DCS interfaces required for APC/digital applications.
- Maintain standard checklists, technical documentation, and site readiness reports.
APC Project Readiness (PLC & Data Logging)
You will lead technical pre-work 2–6 weeks before data logging, ensuring readiness milestones are met and integration issues are resolved early.
- Own the readiness checklist and the gate for ‘ready to log’.
- Coordinate PLC tasks: signals/tags, scaling, time sync, historian/logging setup and basic validation.
- Validate data quality and resolve integration issues with customer automation teams; support initial commissioning and troubleshooting with clear technical records.
Deployment Support & Operational Readiness
- Support functional testing, UAT, commissioning, and site rollouts to ensure smooth deployments.
- Ensure technical operational readiness (documentation, monitoring, cybersecurity and data logging prerequisites) and capture lessons learned to improve templates/playbooks.
Technical Sales Support
- Provide technical input for pre-sales, clarifying IT/automation scope and integration requirements (no ownership of commercials, pricing or contract negotiation).
- Support customer workshops to define IT/automation scope, assumptions and responsibilities.
- Highlight technical risks early and propose mitigations; contribute to proposals/SOWs regarding technical scope, assumptions and risks.
- Work closely with project delivery, service, internal IT/security and customer automation/IT teams to remove technical barriers and keep deployments on track.
Your profile and qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Automation Engineering, Instrumentation, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Information Systems (or equivalent practical experience).
- 3+ years’ experience in industrial automation, OT/IT integration, or digital/controls project delivery (e.g., APC, analytics, SCADA/PLC integration).
- Hands-on experience with PLCs, industrial networks and data acquisition (tag lists, scaling, sampling, time synchronisation).
- Experience setting up and troubleshooting secure connectivity (VPN, firewalls, remote access) in collaboration with IT/security teams; comfortable working within cybersecurity and change control constraints.
- Strong troubleshooting capability across OT/IT layers (network, VPN, PLC connectivity, historian interfaces) and ability to manage technical issues under time pressure while following safety requirements.
- Excellent English (written and verbal) with strong customer-facing technical communication and documentation discipline (clear as-built notes, checklists, and handover packs).
About GEA
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.
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