MES Engineer

About the role

As an MES Engineer supporting our Toner operation, you'll take on engineering assignments to develop and improve the performance of MES applications using IGNITION across a variety of production areas and processes at our Lawrenceville manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

• Model the “safety first” behaviors we expect of all employees by ensuring that operational procedures, equipment, and processes are designed to provide a safe work environment.
• Evaluate, select, order, install, and set up software and hardware within our manufacturing environment.
• Recommend equipment or software to improve operational efficiencies, manufacturing data collection, and other operational data for existing products.
• Coordinate the installation, modification, and testing of manufacturing execution systems.
• Troubleshoot a variety of routine to moderately complex MES-related equipment and software problems. Investigate and determine the root cause of failures and problems and recommend countermeasures.
• Analyze and identify modifications that can be made to improve software or hardware performance and reliability.
• Design and fabricate new and replacement applications or software.
• Create, write, and modify troubleshooting, start-up, and other procedures. Develop implementation schedules.
• Conduct research, compile data, and prepare reports and presentations.
• Prepare training materials and train production and maintenance personnel on the usage and maintenance of equipment.
• Create, write, and modify preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, start-up, technician qualification, and other procedures. Develop preventive maintenance schedules.
• Work in a high-paced environment, often switching roles between developer, product manager, support engineer, and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on MES engineering experience.
• Ability to manage MES/SCADA projects end-to-end, including scope, budget, timeline, stakeholders, and ROI.
• Working knowledge of the practical application of IGNITION in manufacturing/industrial settings.
• Hands-on experience across Power BI, SCADA, Kepware, Java, Python, HMI, and PLC.
• Knowledge of IT and OT networking in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in SQL queries and managing databases, preferably MS SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with C# in addition to Java or Python.
• Experience with or understanding of electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Intermediate skills in Excel, PowerPoint, and other application software used in a manufacturing setting.
• Very good analytical, math, problem-solving, communication, reasoning, and presentation skills.

Benefits

We offer several unique and highly attractive benefits that set us apart from other companies.