Manufacturing Engineer Jobs in USA, IL, Mossville | Rose International Job

Required Education:

• Bachelors degree with 10+ years of experience

Preferred Education:

• Masters degree with 7+ years of experience

Required Qualifications:

• Experience working in manufacturing or production environments (machining, assembly, fabrication, etc.)
• Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, equipment behavior, and process flows
• Experience collaborating with IT, software, or digital product teams
• Manufacturing domain expertise with systems level thinking
• Digital product mindset focused on value delivery
• Strong requirements and problem definition skills
• Cross functional collaboration and influence
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving environments
• Ability to write clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across technical and non technical teams

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting or delivering digital manufacturing products (OEE, MES, analytics, connected equipment, digital twins)
• Familiarity with manufacturing data sources (PLC, SCADA, MES, CMMS, historians)
• Experience in multi site manufacturing environments
• Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD concepts, or digital product lifecycle models
• Experience supporting pilot to scale digital implementations

Manufacturing Engineer Summary:

• We are seeking a Manufacturing Engineer with strong shop floor domain expertise and digital product mindset to partner with IT and Azure DevOps (ADO) teams in the development and deployment of manufacturing specific digital tools
• The ideal candidate understands manufacturing processes deeply, can translate operational needs into clear digital requirements, and is comfortable working in Agile / DevOps delivery environments

Job Duties:

• Manufacturing & Operational Leadership
• Represent manufacturing operations in the design of digital tools (e.g., OEE, connected equipment, digital twins, production analytics)
• Define process intent, loss mechanisms, and operational constraints to guide solution development
• Ensure digital capabilities align with shop floor realities, safety standards, and quality systems
• Support pilot deployments and validate solutions in live manufacturing environments
• Digital Product & DevOps Collaboration
• Partner with IT and product teams using Azure DevOps to develop manufacturing capabilities
• Create and refine Epics, Features, and Acceptance Criteria that reflect manufacturing outcomes
• Contribute to Agile planning, backlog refinement, and incremental delivery (MDP ? MVP ? MMP)
• Support trade off decisions between standardization, localization, and scalability
• Requirements & Data Translation
• Translate manufacturing problems into clear, testable digital requirements
• Identify critical data signals and events needed to support operational decision making
• Define functional and non functional requirements (performance, reliability, usability)
• Ensure traceability from manufacturing need ? digital feature ? deployed capability
• Cross Functional Alignment
• Facilitate workshops with manufacturing, IT, data, and leadership stakeholders
• Align multiple facilities around common digital standards and operating models
• Actively prevent scope creep and reinforce outcome driven development
• Support change management and adoption of digital tools on the shop floor