Job Description
Functional Consultant - Industrial Historian
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Location: Melbourne
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Contract: Till 28 February ****
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About the Role
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We are seeking an experienced Functional Consultant - Industrial Historian to join a major IT/OT separation and system migration program within the gas and energy utilities sector.
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You will act as the functional lead for industrial historian migration activities, working across internal IT/OT teams, SCADA engineers, operations, external transition partners and system integrators.
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The role will focus on the migration, lift-and-shift, re-platforming and functional validation of industrial historian environments into a new standalone environment.
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Key Responsibilities
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Lead functional activities across industrial historian migration and separation initiatives.
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Analyse and document current-state historian environments, including tag structures, naming conventions, AF models, interfaces, SCADA/PLC/DCS data sources and downstream consumers.
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Collaborate with technical teams to define target-state historian architecture aligned with enterprise architecture and OT cyber standards.
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Support data extraction, tag migration, interface re-pointing, validation and cutover activities.
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Work closely with SCADA and OT teams to maintain historian continuity during control-room and telemetry transitions.
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Validate data accuracy following migration, including sampling rates, compression, exception rules and tag quality.
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Support integrations with enterprise platforms including SAP/Maximo, GIS, work management, reporting and analytics systems.
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Provide functional guidance around historian security, access controls and audit requirements.
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Develop test plans, UAT scripts and operational acceptance criteria.
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Engage with operations, engineering and compliance stakeholders to ensure historian data meets business and regulatory requirements.
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Produce technical and functional documentation and support knowledge transfer and handover to BAU teams.
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About You
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You will bring:
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7+ years' experience working with industrial data historians, ideally within gas, energy, utilities or mining.
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Strong functional expertise in at least one major historian platform, preferably OSIsoft/AVEVA PI System, or alternatively AspenTech IP.21, Wonderware Historian or GE Proficy Historian.
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Experience with OT data acquisition protocols such as OPC DA/UA, Modbus, DNP3 or MQTT.
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Strong understanding of historian tag architecture, compression rules, data quality and event frames.
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Previous experience supporting historian migration, consolidation or environment separation projects.
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Understanding of OT cybersecurity requirements and secure data flows.
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Knowledge of gas distribution, transmission, pipelines or mining operations.
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Understanding of operational telemetry,
compressor/pipeline
data, alarms and regulatory reporting.
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Solid stakeholder engagement skills across IT, OT, engineering and operations.
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Ability to translate complex historian concepts into clear business language.
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Excellent documentation, communication and problem-solving skills.
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Desirable Experience
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PI AF, PI Vision, PI Interfaces or PI Integrators.
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Cloud-based historian deployments across Azure or AWS.
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Transitional Service
Agreements/Environments
(TSA).
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Utilities regulatory compliance and operational reporting.
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Ability to interpret P&IDs;, control narratives and instrumentation diagrams.
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What Success Looks Like
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Historian migration completed with zero data loss and minimal operational disruption.
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All interfaces successfully re-pointed and validated.
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Historian data is accurate, reliable and fit for operational use.
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Internal teams are trained and able to operate the new environment independently.
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Enterprise-standard documentation and knowledge transfer are completed.
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Smooth transition from the legacy environment to the new standalone platform.
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📌 Functional Consultant - Industrial Historian (Victoria)
🏢 Davidson
📍 Victoria