Senior MES Engineer

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Purpose and Scope

This position will work with a cross-functional team leaderincluding IT, Engineering, Tooling and manufacturing to deploy Sepasoft MES modules. It will support and expand upon existing Ignition SCADA systems for machine recipe delivery, build visualizations to monitor line performance and machine health, interface with corporate ERP and other systems and build other bi-directional interfaces to provide and collect information to/from the workforce (work instructions, contextual data, manual event triggers, etc.)

Responsabilities 

• Manage the existing Ignition and Sepasoft MES deployment company wide as needed.  Manage the Equipment Hierarchy and asset connectivity to the Settings and Changeover, and OEE modules.
• Configure and customize Sepasoft MES modules to expand the MES usage to new areas of the plant.
• Conduct system testing, troubleshooting, and debugging to ensure the stability and reliability of MES implementations.
• Provide training and technical support to end-users and stakeholders on MES functionalities and best practices.
• Lead the integration along with IT ERP team to integrate the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) with SAP, ensuring seamless data exchange.
• Establish work standards and implement measurements to enforce compliance.
• Manage the project of data exchange with manufacturing equipment. This will require work with SCADA and Controls engineers to ensure seamless execution.
• Manage a workstream to deploy milestones of MES projects in a timely manner within scope and budget, ensuring proper communication with stakeholders (Project managers, Sr. Leadership, etc)
• Development, support, and integration of new and existing Ignition projects.
• Install and maintain hardware and software that collects specified data into usable information to control the production process.
• Must be able to work as a team leader to attain the software and data collection goals and objectives of the organization.
• Integrate collected data with other business systems such as ERP, SCADA and Engineering Systems.
• Develop or supervise third party development of integrated Manufacturing Execution System (SCADA) for the facility.
• Program, update, and trouble shoot MES related hardware and software.

         Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• RPG programming, Ignition, MES
• Python, SQL, CSS, Beckhoff (plus), Allen Bradley (plus), Siemens (plus)
• Fluent English     

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.