Functional Consultant – Industrial Historian

🚨 Now Hiring | Functional Consultant – Industrial Historian | MelbourneMelbourne | Immediate Start 📅 Contract: 30 September 2026 – 28 February 2027
QIX Consulting is looking for an experienced Functional Consultant – Industrial Historian to support a major IT/OT separation and system migration program within the gas and energy utilities sector.This is a highly specialised role suited to someone with strong Industrial Historian expertise who understands OT environments, SCADA integrations and operational data flows, and has previously supported historian migration, separation or re-platforming programs.
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing• Lead functional activities across the Industrial Historian migration and separation• Analyse current-state historian architecture, tag structures, interfaces and operational data flows• Support lift-and-shift, re-platforming, tag migration and interface re-pointing• Work closely with SCADA, PLC and DCS environments to maintain historian continuity• Validate historian data following migration, including sampling, compression, exception rules and data quality• Support integrations with SAP/Maximo, GIS, work management and analytics platforms• Develop test plans, UAT scripts, cutover activities and operational acceptance criteria• Work across IT, OT, engineering, operations and compliance stakeholders• Deliver documentation, knowledge transfer and transition to BAU teams
🎯 What We’re Looking For• 7+ years' experience working with Industrial Data Historians within gas, energy, utilities or mining• Strong expertise with at least one major historian platform, ideally OSIsoft / AVEVA PI System• Alternatively, strong experience with AspenTech IP.21, Wonderware Historian or GE Proficy Historian• Experience with historian migration, consolidation, re-platforming or environment separation• Strong understanding of SCADA integrations and OT data acquisition• Experience with protocols such as OPC DA/UA, Modbus, DNP3 and MQTT• Knowledge of historian tag architecture, compression rules, data quality and event frames• Understanding of OT cybersecurity and secure operational data flows• Strong stakeholder engagement across IT, OT, engineering and operations
⭐ Highly Desirable• PI AF, PI Vision, PI Interfaces or PI Integrators• Gas transmission, distribution or pipeline environments• Azure/AWS historian deployments• TSA / separation program experience• Utilities regulatory and operational reporting exposure• Ability to interpret P&IDs, instrumentation diagrams and control narratives
If you’re an Industrial Historian / PI System specialist with strong OT experience and are available for a Melbourne-based contract from late September, I’d love to hear from you.
📩 Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential discussion.
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