Vulcan Elements
Manufacturing Data & MES Engineer
About this role
Lead the data and manufacturing execution systems strategy for a rare-earth magnet manufacturer scaling from pilot to a 1-million-square-foot facility. You'll embed with the MES implementation vendor, close data integration gaps, design a platform-neutral data architecture, and shepherd the system through go-live and production expansion while maintaining security compliance.
What you'll do
- Embed with vendor during MES pilot implementation and own the system post-handover through go-live and stabilization
- Close data integration gaps between batch systems, historians, and business systems with proper contextualization and mapping
- Design and operate plant data architecture including entity models, interface catalogs, and vendor-independent contextualization database
- Build and maintain REST/HTTP integrations between MES, SCADA, LIMS, and ERP with production-grade error handling and logging
- Define ISA-95 object models and electronic batch record structure for magnet manufacturing workflows
- Establish platform evaluation criteria and support proof-of-concept testing for SCADA/batch/historian/MES selection
What they're looking for
- Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and SCADA architecture
- Data integration and REST API design with error handling and idempotency
- ISA-95 standards and batch record/material genealogy modeling
- SQL and relational database design for manufacturing data
- ETL and data pipeline development
- Systems integration and vendor management
- Process engineering and manufacturing operations knowledge
- Python or similar backend programming language
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Vulcan Elements
Vulcan Elements manufactures rare-earth magnets for defense and aerospace applications, with a focus on American production and advanced processing capabilities. The company is hiring materials engineers, process specialists, mechanical engineers, safety professionals, and network engineers to support manufacturing operations, facility expansion, and process optimization.
View all jobs at Vulcan ElementsLikely interview questions
- Describe your experience implementing or managing MES systems in manufacturing environments. What challenges did you face with data integration?
- How have you designed platform-agnostic data architectures that survive vendor or technology changes?