Position Title: Architect Digital Manufacturing
Location: Hershey, PA 17033 - Hybrid
Start date: 08/07/2024
End date: 04/04/2025
Rate: C2C

Description:
Hybrid

DESCRIPTION:
The Architect for Digital Manufacturing Solutions is a technical solutions manager, focused on leveraging technology in manufacturing to transform business processes, improve visibility, enable the workforce, and improve operational agility, quality, and productivity. At Hershey, you will be working with small, multi-disciplinary teams to develop TrakSYS solutions for our manufacturing plants. The Architect conceptualizes, designs, documents, constructs, tests, and implements industrial applications and hardware technologies to enable our plant s digital transformation. Applications range from OEE applications to full-scale MES/MOM applications across multiple facilities.
Major Duties/Responsibilities:
Leads the design, development, and implementation of MES/MOM and system integration solutions projects
Responsible for solution architecture modeling and documentation, specification development, and technical design decisions for prioritized projects
Effectively works with implementation partners and development teams to efficiently translate business requirements into functional capabilities
Assesses complex technical environments and defines requirements for integration of new solutions, maintenance, and optimization
Ensures solutions are scalable and can be sustained with close adherence to reference architectures and standards
Interacts and works with customers at multiple levels of responsibility in a manufacturing or production environment
Collaborates with business partners to advise, define and deliver capabilities in alignment with business and IT strategy

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Engineering from an accredited college/university
Minimum of 10 years experience in software development
Minimum 6 years experience developing or leading the development of MES, MOM, or manufacturing applications
2 years experience configuring and developing Parsec TrakSYS applications
Experience programming in C# .NET
Experience with T-SQL
ISA-95 expertise and ability to architect manufacturing information solutions
Expertise in all project phases including design, development, and implementation
Experience with customer requirements and specification development
Must be able to handle multiple tasks, have excellent attention to detail, and be willing and able to learn new technologies quickly
Must be able to work successfully in a matrix structure, focused strongly on customer service and personnel growth
Must have experience successfully interacting and working with customers at multiple levels of responsibility in a manufacturing or production environment
Must have solid verbal and written communication skills
Must have a strong work ethic and be willing to travel up to 20% of the time and work in a plant environment.
Nice to Have:
Strong experience with C# .NET & MS SQL Server
Experience with 3rd party web controls (DevExtreme or equivalent)
Experience with design and development of interfaces with business systems (ERP, WMS, PLM, etc.)
Experience with OPC UA
Experience with UNS
MES platform experience (Rockwell, Siemens, AVEVA, Ignition/Sepasoft, etc.)
Experience with IIoT, Cloud, MQTT-Spark Plug