Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Harvey Nash Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Harvey Nash in Peoria Heights, Illinois Posted in about 22 hours ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Senior Manufacturing Engineer Mossville, IL 24 months Job Description Typical task breakdown: Key Responsibilities 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 Top 3 Skills
• 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 Additional Technical Skills (Required)
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery concepts and Azure DevOps (or similar platforms) (Desired)
• 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 Soft Skills (Required)
• Ability to write clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across technical and non technical teams

ADDITIONAL NOTES

Key Competencies

• 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