Job summary

A multinational aerospace and defense company, specialising in the design and development of aircraft systems and equipment, are on the lookout of a Manufacturing Data Systems Engineer with experience in the full systems engineering lifecyle

Key skills required for this role

Data Systems Engineer, Manufacturing Execution Systems/ MES, Product Lifecycle, Data Systems

Important

Data Systems Engineer, Manufacturing Execution Systems/ MES, Product Lifecycle, Data Systems

Job description

A multinational aerospace and defense company, specialising in the design and development of aircraft systems and equipment, are on the lookout of a Manufacturing Data Systems Engineer to support their production team.

What will I be doing?

Reporting to the Assembly Methods Manager you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the improvement and deployment activities when applicable for the software and applications used in the assembly department (Manufacturing Engineering Data System, MES - Manufacturing Execution System, PowerBI, etc…).

Main Responsibilities:

You will represent the assembly department in site or global workgroups set up to share experience and best practices, prepare deployment activities, etc.

You will coordinate training activity on those systems for the Assembly personnel where applicable.

You will coordinate non-regression testing activities on software upgrades or modifications when and where applicable.

You will support cross-site deployment activities when required.

You will develop a network of key users within the department in order to develop expertise and problem solving aptitude.

You will provide visibility on changes coming and build a roadmap with key activities and resource needed.

You will provide clear visibility of the work progress: risk analysis, training, support needed, migration steps, etc…

Management:

Implement development approaches and validation/integration/verification phases

Draft and maintain development plans

Identify technical and scheduling risks, implement and manage risk-reduction actions

Manage development within the company and at subcontractors

Prepare and present certification files

Manage compliance reviews of specifications, verification procedures and code

Ensure skills development and knowledge capitalization within the assembly teams

Architecture and development:

Draw up software specifications in terms of functionality and performance, human-machine

Interfaces and user-friendliness, with associated justifications

Design and develop components, select and integrate COTS or open-source components and simulate software architectures and the filters and adjustments needed to achieve the requisite performance

Design architectures in accordance with the platform (embedded or non-embedded software), network architectures, database architectures and corresponding data security measures

Prepare the justification files

Generate the necessary code, either manually or using automatic code generation tools

Desirable

Integration and verification:

Draw up software test plans and verification procedures and associated test scenarios

Integrate software modules with each other and with the hardware

Use simulation tools to verify specifications

Tabulate and analyse verification and qualification results, internally and/or with the customer

Produce the test justification file

Preferred Candidate Skills & Requirements

Understanding & experience of working with MES systems

Experience of leading new software deployments

Understanding the production process

Understanding of data flow in relation with technical documentation on the shopfloor

Business Awareness