Manufacturing Data & MES Engineer

Responsibilities

• Embed with the pilot MES implementation as the designated internal knowledge-transfer target with contractual handover criteria; own the system outright after vendor handover, through go-live and stabilization.
• Close the pilot’s data-integration gaps: batch/tag contextualization, historian-to-record mapping, and reliable interface plumbing between plant-floor and business systems.
• Design and operate the plant data architecture: entity models (material, batch, equipment, test results), the interface catalog, and an owned contextualization database independent of any single vendor platform.
• Build and maintain REST/HTTP integrations between MES, SCADA, laboratory (LIMS-class) systems, and the ERP boundary, with production-grade error handling, idempotency, retries, and logging.
• Define ISA-95 object models and the electronic batch record and material genealogy structure for a make-to-stock magnet manufacturing flow.
• Write the data-access, openness, and database-dependency criteria into the site SCADA/batch/historian/MES platform evaluation, and support structured proofs-of-concept on pilot infrastructure.
• Deliver reporting and self-serve analytics access for process engineering from pilot and production data.
• Establish schema versioning, units/timestamp/identifier discipline, and missing-and-duplicate record handling across all plant data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years spanning manufacturing systems (MES/MOM) and data engineering.
• Strong SQL and relational database design (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar) and time-series data handling experience.
• REST API design and integration development in production (Python, JavaScript, or similar), including failure-mode engineering: retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling.
• Working knowledge of ISA-95 concepts - production orders, material genealogy, equipment models, batch records - and experience integrating plant-floor systems (historians, SCADA, PLC data) with business systems (ERP).
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Preferred Skills

• Ability to synthesize complex and interwoven topics to individual stakeholders and drive adoption, decision-making for defining criticality of what to track and how from an engineering and business perspective.
• OPCUA Integration experience.
• Experience in higher level data visualization software for engineer, scientist, and/or business stakeholder consumption (examples include Tableau, Hex, Grafana, etc…).
• Hands-on configuration experience with a commercial MES platform (FactoryTalk Production Centre, AVEVA MES, Tulip, or similar).
• Time-series database depth (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) or OT historian experience (PI, Canary, FactoryTalk Historian, Ignition).
• OT networking and cybersecurity conceptual understanding and operation.
• NIST 800-171 control families and CMMC best practices.
• Batch manufacturing or materials-processing industry background.
• Experience defining data architecture ahead of platform selection or surviving a platform migration.
• Experience in regulated industries such as Defense, Aerospace, or Automotive.