Senior Engineer, Operational Technology
Eaton · Charlotte · $86,000–$126,000 (stated in the posting)
Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Senior Engineer, Operational Technology. This position can sit in our Raleigh or Charlotte, NC location. The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
Job Summary:
As part of Eaton's Operating For Growth transformation, we are seeking a highly motivated expert contributor to join our Functional Excellence team being responsible for deploying, supporting, and standardizing machine connectivity across manufacturing sites to enable Operations 4 Growth initiatives.
Eaton will be deploying a common, scalable and standard approach on machine connectivity across the enterprise, this initiative is a foundation element on assuring we can capture the right and near real time data to enable a strong end to end digital strategy which will ultimately improve the decision making process based on real time data, allowing a better usage of our people's intellectual property to drive continuous improvement on our sites towards achieving manufacturing excellence.
The OT Engineer will act an ambassador for driving consistent and standard deployment of our machine connectivity strategy. This role will collaborate closely with MES Global Process Owners, IT and site teams to ensure the necessary organizational skills are in place. This role involves developing and enforcing machine connectivity policies to ensure data integrity, quality, and consistency across all sites following Eaton's standards.
This role focuses on connecting industrial equipment to the OT network and data platforms in compliance with OT architecture, cybersecurity, and IT/OT integration standards, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure data acquisition from shopfloor assets.
Job Responsibilities:
- Direct support of key programs, ensuring on-time completion of OT activities within the overall pogram, guiding and supporting plant teams on machine connectivity and data acquisition activities
- Drive maximizing solution standardization across the enterprise, ensuring integration and adherence to industry best practices. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure machine connectivity solutions aligns with business goals and industry standards.
- Communicate and implement standard processes, also identify issues during implementation, defining actions to address it together with OT Leader.
- Promote machine connectivity adoption, escalating risks and acts as gate keeper for process governance.
- Raise the need for machine connectivity training, ensuring site stakeholders are aware of their role in the process, and proper knowledge is assimilated by each site, business and/or region.
- Reinforce the deployment of machine connectivity playbooks, best practices and lessons learned sharing across the enterprise to drive smooth machine connectivity implementation, refining and mature the OT hardwarde standard lists and supporting on evaluating non-starndard requests for OT solutions
- Expected 20-25% travel including international as determined by implementation roadmap and business needs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams/resources to execute projects – plant leadership, Information Technology, Operational Excellence, Production, Quality, Facilities and Engineering.
Qualifications:
Basic (required) Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics Engineering.
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in manufacturing industry
Minimum two (2) years experience in machine connectivity or related i4.0 activities
Experience in implementing machine connectivity with diverse set of assets
Experience working with different associated functions (e.g. IT, Manufacturing Engineering, i4.0, etc)
- Experience with: PLC Programming, machine connectivity protocols, Kepware, Digital data Management software (e.g. PCaT, Ignition, etc,)
Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship now or in the future.
No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Charlotte, NC or Raleigh, NC. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical
area limitation.
- This position requires use of information or access to hardware which may be subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.
Technical knowledge:
- Proficient with computer and software tools, including advanced Excel capabilities
- Ability to read and use wiring, connection, schematic, and ladder logic diagrams to troubleshoot control systems.
- Ability to build and evaluate network diagrams / topology for new connectivity and OT devices
- Ability to setup industrial network devices (switches/routers) and connect these into the existing IT infrastructure
- Knowledge of Industrial IoT concepts & solutions.
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes such as fabrication, assembly & test, as well as materials management and quality processes.
- Knowledge/experience setting up Kepware OPC system
- Experience in controls engineering, programming, big data, and analytics.
- Experience in PLC and HMI programming.
- Understanding of machine connectivity, communication protocols and data management.
- Understanding of IT infrastructure and system integration.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity standards & policies
- Knowledge or experience with Ignition (Flexware) platform (optional)
- Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes & associated equipment (sheet metal fabrication, molding, assembly, wiring, painting, machining, etc).
Skills:
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills when talking to both technical and non-technical audencies at different levels of organization
- Ability to communicate with international peers and support organizations (vendors, IT,...)
- Demonstrate ability to understand main ideas of complex texts (manual reading)
- Ability to build strong network, collaborating and influcencing different business groups & cultures
- Ability to work on multiple project / program simultaneously
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Ability to get into consesus and take decision based on standard processes
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