Connected Assets Engineer

BravoTECH; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech solutions provider in the United States is seeking an experienced individual for IIOT Connectivity. Responsibilities include documenting equipment at manufacturing sites, establishing network connections, and creating detailed playbooks for the execution process. Candidates must have manufacturing floor experience, analytical skills, and basic networking knowledge to ensure successful connectivity. This role involves about 30% travel throughout the year, requiring flexibility and self-motivation.

Qualifications

• Must be an analytical thinker and willing to research unknown equipment.
• Manufacturing floor experience is necessary.
• Able to work independently and self-motivated.

Responsibilities

• Document equipment at a site and determine the connectivity path.
• Participate in tech reviews with the customer for equipment connectivity.
• Onboard equipment to the factory segmented network and establish connections.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Manufacturing floor experience

IIOT connectivity experience

Basic knowledge of networking concepts

Ability to work independently

Flexibility with schedule

Tools

Kepware

PLC

MES

Ignition

Job description

• Must be an analytical thinker and be willing to research unknown equipment and connectivity patterns
• Timeliness and flexibility with schedule to accommodate the customer are both a must
• Manufacturing floor experience
• Able to work independently and be self-motivated
• IIOT connectivity experience in some manner (Kepware, MES, PLC, machine controllers, Ignition, Etc.)
• Understanding of the broad view of manufacturing in relation to connecting the various systems
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts at a minimum

PRE-ASSESMENT ACTIVITIES

• This is our opportunity to build a relationship with the site outside of just the program team
• This is more of an investigative trip to document the equipment at a site and collect the information needed to determine the connectivity path.
• We verify any information entered into the machine survey by the plant and fill in any missing information.
• For each piece of equipment, we look at things such as:
• How the equipment is controlled, PC or PLC or Controller
• Can we connect directly to the equipment or is additional hardware required such as machine switch or NAT device
• Does the equipment have a network drop available
• Is there an SME for the piece the piece of equipment
• We document the switch stack names for the network team and verify switch capacity
• Following the pre-assessment, we participate in a tech review with the customer where we discuss the best path for connectivity on each piece of equipment based on our findings while on site

EXECUTION ACTIVITIES

• This is the return trip where we go onboard equipment to the new factory segmented network and then establish connections from those machines to Kepware
• These trips require coordination between us, the site team, the network team, and occasionally vendors
• Possible technical tasks could include:
• Patching in a drop
• Configuring a NAT device or IO device
• Configuring IP Address and relevant network items on equipment
• Full configuration of Kepware channels and devices based on standard formats that have been provided by the customer
• Maintain up to date playbook status and comments throughout the week
• Create SNOW tickets for any outstanding action items that cannot be completed during the execution week

DOCUMENTATION

• There are a few documentation activities we are responsible for
• We create the playbook for each execution. It is the schedule for the week along with a few additional pieces of information for each machine
• We document the implementation steps for the selected connectivity path on each machine type. This is a machine side high level work instruction.
• We create guidebooks or work instructions for how to make the connection to Kepware. This is low level work instruction for configuring Kepware.
• We document the information needed to submit an FSR to the customer.
• Potential for basic report outs and other minor documentation.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Overall travel tends to be around 30% for the year