Hydroleap Hiring! Full Time Automation Engineer in - Ricebowl

About the Company: Hydroleap is a Singapore-based deep tech startup with a mission of disrupting the wastewater treatment industry. Our cutting-edge electrochemistry technology and innovative approaches to water and waste management have eliminated the need for manual interventions and toxic chemicals, making our solutions fully automated, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly helping industries to be more water and energy efficient. With multiple successful deployments across the Asia Pacific region, including in the agri-food, oil & gas, data center, desalination, and construction sectors, Hydroleap is significantly impacting how water and wastewater are treated. As a company, we are proud to be backed by an impressive group of governmental and private venture capitalists, such as UntroD Capital, Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, State Government of Victoria, Wavemaker Partners, 500, SGInnovate, Sparklabs, and Entrepreneur First. Join our team and be a part of a mission-driven organization that is changing the world, one drop of water at a time.

About the Role: As Hydroleap is growing and offering solutions to more clients within the existing verticals as well as the new verticals, we are looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious, and high-energy Automation Engineer who will be in charge of PLC programming, designing control panels, and implementing industrial and commercial electrical systems. The Automation Engineer is responsible for the complete design of the electrical and control functions of new and retrofitted small to medium-sized control panels. In this role, you will be working closely with the rest of the engineering team in terms of process, and hardware design to translate control philosophies into a physical control panel containing PLCs and other electrical components. This role involves your presence in the office, factory as well as site.

Responsibilities:

• Translation of process control philosophies into PLC/SCADA programs using one or more of the programming languages (i.e. ladder logic, function block, Sequential Function, Structured Text) and integrating different hardware components (i.e. pumps, sensors, valves, etc).
• Planning, organizing, troubleshooting issues, and managing project and electrical activities in close coordination with engineers, supervisors, and manufacturers.
• Installation, testing, FAT, SAT, and commissioning of control panels and distribution systems on sites.
• Preparation of risk assessment, and HSE for each project.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in PLC and HMI programming projects.
• Experience in remote monitoring and data logging.
• Experience in CAD e.g., AutoCAD etc.
• Proficient in programming languages such as React , Nodejs (preferred).
• Knowledge of robotics, PLCs, sensors, IoT, and industrial control systems.
• Develop and maintain cloud-hosted backend services and APIs
• Configure and manage communication protocols like MQTT and TCP for reliable device connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with sensors, microcontrollers, and various communication/network protocols.
• Experience in deployment and maintenance of IoT systems including AWS IoT

Required Skills:

• PLC programming.
• Control panel design.
• Electrical systems implementation.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SCADA systems.
• Knowledge of industrial automation standards.