We are seeking engineers who want to innovate and apply their knowledge to the challenges of industry and society to support emerging approaches to digitalisation for industry 4.0 within AMIC's advanced manufacturing activities. You will apply your specialist knowledge and experience of methods and processes, to generate innovative research outputs which have a direct economic and technical benefit to companies and sectors. You will work collaboratively with your team, industry, technology providers, national technology centres and academia to deliver key projects focused on advanced manufacturing. You will be involved in implementing a Unified Namespace Architecture within AMICs facilities on a state-of-the-art modern infrastructure and demonstrating best practices to industry.
About the person
Essential Criteria:
1. Educational Background:
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Science, or a related discipline; OR Extensive recent and relevant industrial experience directly related to the role.
2. Technical Expertise:
- Manufacturing Systems Integration - Understanding of MES, ERP systems and their role within Industry 4.0 architectures.
- Industrial Data Architecture - Understanding of how to structure and contextualise data across multiple systems (MES, ERP, SCADA, IIOT).
- Tag Hierarchy Design - Ability to design logical and scalable tag structures that reflect physical and digital assets across the enterprise.
- Industrial Protocols & Communication - Familiarity of protocols such as OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus, Profibus for secure industrial data exchange.
- Security & Access Control - Ability to implement role-based authentication, cybersecurity best practices, and compliance with industrial data governance.
- Event-Driven Architecture - Experience with publish/subscribe patterns, real-time data streaming, and workflow automation
- Programming & Scripting - Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar for industrial automation and data processing applications.
3. Experience:
- Demonstrable evidence of working within multifaceted environments delivering to deadlines and within budget.
- Experience of using research/industrial tools and techniques resulting in high quality projects and technical reports.
- Evidence of complex problem-solving skills obtained with a proven ability to develop innovative solutions.
4. Personal Qualities:
- Evidence of complex problem-solving skills obtained / relevant for industrial data-related problems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate complex technical information.
- Ability to innovate and rapidly contribute to research projects.
- Willingness to visit collaborative partners and to attend meetings and conferences nationally and internationally as requested.
To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.
This is a 3 year fixed term post. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
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