Lead MES & Manufacturing Data Architect

Vulcan-Elements; Benson (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future, with a pilot facility expanding to a massive 1 million square foot site.

The Manufacturing Data & MES Engineer will own the MES from pilot to production, embedding with the vendor team to close live-data gaps and define a platform-neutral data architecture that survives SCADA, batch, MES, and historian selections.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong SQL and relational database design (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar) and time-series data handling experience.
• Working knowledge of ISA-95 concepts-production orders, material genealogy, equipment models, batch records—and experience integrating plant-floor systems with business systems.

Responsibilities

• Embed with the pilot MES implementation as the designated internal knowledge-transfer target with contractual handover criteria; own the system outright after vendor handover, through go-live and stabilization.
• Close the pilot’s data-integration gaps: batch/tag contextualization, historian-to-record mapping, and reliable interface plumbing between plant-floor and business systems.
• Design and operate the plant data architecture: entity models (material, batch, equipment, test results), the interface catalog, and an owned contextualization database independent of any single vendor platform.
• Build and maintain REST/HTTP integrations between MES, SCADA, laboratory systems, and the ERP boundary, with production-grade error handling, idempotency, retries, and logging.
• Define ISA-95 object models and the electronic batch record and material genealogy structure for a make-to-stock magnet manufacturing flow.
• Write the data-access, openness, and database-dependency criteria into the site SCADA/batch/historian/MES platform-evaluation, and support structured proofs-of-concept on pilot infrastructure.
• Deliver reporting and self-serve analytics access for process engineering from pilot and production data.
• Establish schema versioning, units/timestamp/identifier discipline, and missing-and-duplicate record handling across all plant data pipelines.

Skills

SQL

Time-series data handling

Manufacturing systems integration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

FactoryTalk ProductionCentre

AVEVA MES

Tulip

Job description

Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future, with a pilot facility expanding to a massive 1 million square foot site.

The Manufacturing Data & MES Engineer will own the MES from pilot to production, embedding with the vendor team to close live-data gaps and define a platform-neutral data architecture that survives SCADA, batch, MES, and historian selections.