Systems Integrator

TAMKO prefers the incumbent live within 50 miles of a primary TAMKO manufacturing or corporate facility: Joplin, Missouri; Phillipsburg, Kansas; Dallas, Texas; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; or Frederick, Maryland. Position location is flexible with a mix of in-office time, site visits, and time at your home office.

Responsibilities

• Conduct business with honesty and integrity.
• Design, develop, and maintain integrations between plant-floor systems, enterprise applications, and data stores.
• Meet with stakeholders to determine integration requirements and data exchange needs.
• Translate business and operational requirements into integration designs and flows.
• Provide feasibility assessments and time estimates for new automation requests.
• Design error handling and recovery strategies for robust, low-maintenance integration workflows.
• Monitor industry developments, lifecycle status, and obsolescence of technologies and communicate impacts as appropriate.
• Support manufacturing facilities by assisting with troubleshooting and resolution of automation issues.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and support company strategic initiatives and organizational change efforts.
• Participate in professional development, continuous learning, and initiatives that promote team and cultural health.
• Travel to TAMKO manufacturing facilities and corporate offices up to 30% the first year and up to 20% once established in the role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems; or equivalent education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience with automation and system integrations.
• Experience with manufacturing control systems and SCADA technologies – Siemens and AVEVA System Platform, respectively.
• Strong skills in Microsoft .NET/C#, Microsoft SQL, and REST API.
• Familiarity with ERP systems (preferably SAP).
• Good English communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Statistical analysis skills – SPC, regression, capability analysis both using historical data and intentional experimentation.
• Familiarity with modern AI tools.
• Experience integrating a variety of devices – including but not limited to lab instrumentation devices.
• Knowledge of industrial networking and field application.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job the employee will regularly remain in a stationary position for long periods.
• The employee will also be required to traverse the office and plant production floors.
• The employee may work around moving mechanical parts, at elevated heights, where dusts and fumes could be present in the air, with or in proximity to chemicals, in hot environments, around electrical equipment, and in a loud environment.
• The employee must have the ability to understand and mitigate these and other risks, including by following all prescribed safety rules, and must have the ability to wear appropriate personal protective equipment, if necessary.

Benefits

• Group Health and Life Insurance
• Vision and Dental Insurance
• Flexible Benefits Plan
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match
• Profit-Sharing Retirement Plan
• Other benefits