Systems Architect - Automated Manufacturing Systems

• Lead the conceptual system architecture of advanced manufacturing platforms, integrating automation, digital systems, data, physical equipment, and operations in close collaboration with customers
• Define system boundaries, material and data flows, interfaces, and functional blocks based on customer goals and future state use cases, and that serve as the foundation for follow-on detailed engineering design
• Develop clear, actionable system requirements and acceptance criteria that are traceable to customer needs, business goals, and regulatory requirements
• Conduct simulation, modeling, and studies to explore architectural options, capacity strategies, and system performance scenarios
• Leverage data-driven methods to validate design assumptions, identify risks, and optimize architectural outcomes before handoff to design teams
• Proactively identify and mitigate early-stage product, process, design, integration, performance, and technology risks through proof-of-concept work or conceptual validation
• Engage stakeholders, including customers and internal teams, to understand use cases, digital maturity, and future systems needs
• Collaborate with engineering, controls, IT, operations, and sales to ensure architecture aligns with customer’s long-term strategic goals and execution capabilities
• Produce architectural deliverables, including system user requirements documents (URSs), functional design specification documents (FRSs), functional block diagrams, and early risk registers
• Update and evolve architectural requirements and assumptions as system understanding grows and scope evolves
• Contribute to enterprise-wide frameworks for smart manufacturing, digital enablement, and Information Technology (IT)/Operational Technology (OT) integration

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Industrial, Mechanical, Software, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in systems architecture, automation strategy, or conceptual design of complex manufacturing systems
• Knowledge of: Systems engineering principles (requirements development, interface management, V-model, risk analysis and mitigation)
• Simulation tools (Plant Simulation, or equivalent)
• Industrial automation systems (robotics, PLCs, SCADA, MES, data acquisition, I/O)
• Data and integration protocols (OPC, Ethernet/IP, etc.)
• Vertical integration layers above core automation systems (MES, SCADA, ERP, cloud/edge platforms, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.)
• Smart factory frameworks (Industry 4.0, Digital Twin concepts, etc.)
• Comfortable using Microsoft 365 suite of tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
• Strategic, systems-level thinker with the ability to distill complexity into clarity
• Confident communicator who can align technical and non-technical stakeholders

Master’s or MBA is an asset

• Flexible work schedules
• Employee events
• Free coffee beverages
• Employee referral program
• Safety shoe programs
• Overtime pay eligibility
• Paid vacation
• Company paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance
• Comprehensive health benefits
• 401K matching program
• Employee Incentive Bonus program
• Optional Employee Share Purchase Program
• Tuition reimbursement programs
• Commitment to promoting from within