Software Engineering Specialist

Job Title: Software Engineering Specialist

Job Code: 29873

Job Location: Tempe AZ

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Software Engineering Specialist will oversee and execute the software development of complex projects throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Your responsibilities will include defining software requirements creating the software platform architecture managing and contributing to the software development process and ensuring successful deployment to production.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for managing the development integration debug and test of internal software products
• Understand project requirements for GUI/communication interface networking and create specifications based on these requirements
• Lead the implementation of a new Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and provide regular progress updates to both Senior and Sector Level Management.
• Review repair and redesign legacy code for Programable Logic Controler (PLC) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Production equipment
• Troubleshoot issues with existing systems
• Participate in reviews with the Engineering team to ensure proper implementation of features
• Collaborate with the Manufacturing Engineering Manager and departmental engineers to coordinate project requirements and communicate current status
• Ability to professionally and effectively communicate is required. Written - use of multimedia tools for briefings ability to write procedures and reports. Verbal - ability to provide briefings in small to medium size groups of technicians engineers and management

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 4 years prior experience 2 year post-secondary/AA Degree and 8 years prior experience or Graduate Degree with 2 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in working in a Unix environment (executing commands and utilities from the command line)
• Development experience with C/C
• Experience with Korn shell scripting
• Knowledge of SQL and SQL Server including queries SSIS packages and ETL (Extract-Transform-Load)
• Ability to review repair and redesign legacy code
• Experance of MES and SCADA systems
• Effective Problem Solving
• In-depth knowledge and application of engineering principles and concepts
• Configuring and designing HMI/OIT systems
• LabView
• Perl
• Python
• Ignition (Inductive Automation)
• Programming Vision Systems (e.g. Cognex Keyence)
• MES design and implementation