Execution Systems-Eng
Cognizant
About the Role
Execute and optimize industrial data historian solutions using AVEVA PI Historian for large-scale manufacturing and supply chain environments. Contribute to reliable data acquisition, contextualization, and analysis that supports operational excellence. Collaborate in a hybrid work model with cross-functional teams to improve plant performance through actionable insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and configure AVEVA PI Historian data models to accurately represent manufacturing and supply chain processes, enabling high-quality data capture and analysis for business stakeholders.
- Implement robust data collection interfaces from shop floor control systems and enterprise applications into AVEVA PI Historian, ensuring consistent and reliable time-series data availability.
- Monitor historian infrastructure health by analyzing system performance indicators and proactively addressing bottlenecks to maintain high data integrity and uptime.
- Develop calculated tags and data transformations to convert raw process signals into meaningful metrics supporting operational reporting and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with manufacturing and supply chain process experts to translate operational requirements into historian configurations reflecting real-world production workflows.
- Create and maintain documentation for historian architecture, configurations, and data flows to ensure smooth knowledge transfer and operational continuity across teams.
- Support data consumers by preparing curated data sets and views from AVEVA PI Historian that enable analytics dashboards and reports focused on production efficiency and supply reliability.
- Analyze historian data trends to identify anomalies and improvement opportunities, providing actionable insights to help reduce downtime and enhance throughput.
- Coordinate with IT and operations teams in a hybrid work environment to troubleshoot integration issues between historian systems and upstream or downstream applications.
- Ensure compliance with company data governance policies by implementing appropriate access controls and retention rules within the historian environment.
- Contribute to the standardization of historian implementation practices across sites to improve scalability, repeatability, and ease of maintenance for global operations.
- Participate in day-shift support activities by responding to incidents and service requests related to historian functionality, maintaining clear communication with stakeholders.
- Continuously explore enhancements in historian features and related tools to recommend improvements that strengthen analytical capabilities and business decision-making.
Qualifications
- Strong experience with AVEVA PI Historian to configure tags, interfaces, and asset structures that align with complex manufacturing operations.
- Familiarity with manufacturing domain processes to interpret equipment behavior and production events when designing and validating historian data models.
- Understanding of supply chain flows to structure data that supports inventory visibility, production planning, and logistics performance analysis.
- Practical exposure to hybrid work models, collaborating effectively with onsite and remote colleagues using standardized communication and documentation practices.
- Capability to work independently during day shifts, managing multiple historian tasks while coordinating efficiently with cross-functional teams.
- Analytical skills to use historian data for root cause investigations and continuous improvement projects impacting operational outcomes.
- Sound knowledge of industrial data integration concepts to ensure historian connectivity with control systems, enterprise applications, and analytics platforms.







