Digital Design Engineer (Contractor)

TheDigital Design Engineer develops and sustains practical digital solutions that improve manufacturing productivity, decision-making, process reliability, and user experience. The role converts business needs into secure, maintainable applications, automations, databases, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions, while coordinating with production, engineering, quality, IT, and other stakeholders from concept through deployment and support.

Key Outcomes

• Digital solutions are delivered safely, on time, and against clearly defined business requirements.
• Manual and repetitive work is reduced through fit-for-purpose automation and standardized workflows.
• Manufacturing data is reliable, accessible, traceable, and converted into actionable dashboards and insights.
• Applications and automations are documented, tested, adopted by users, and supported through a sustainable lifecycle.
• IT/OT cybersecurity, access control, data protection, and site governance requirements are embedded in every solution.

What will you do?

• Business analysis and solution design

• Engage stakeholders to understand operational pain points, map current processes, and define functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assess solution options and recommend an appropriate approach using web applications, low-code platforms, RPA, BI, databases, analytics, or AI.
• Prepare solution concepts, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, effort estimates, risks, and implementation plans.
• Ensure proposed solutions are scalable, maintainable, user-friendly, and aligned with site architecture and governance.

• Application and database development

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain web-based applications using .NET/C#, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, LEAP, or approved equivalent technologies.
• Design and manage Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL databases, including data models, queries, stored procedures, interfaces, backup considerations, and performance optimization.
• Build integrations with approved manufacturing or enterprise systems through available APIs, data connectors, files, or database interfaces.
• Apply coding standards, version control, peer review, exception handling, logging, reusable components, and technical documentation.

• Automation and RPA

• Identify, prioritize, and automate repetitive transactional activities using RPA or workflow automation tools.
• Develop robust automations with input validation, exception handling, audit trails, monitoring, and recovery procedures.
• Measure benefits such as cycle-time reduction, error reduction, capacity released, and improved process compliance.
• Maintain the bot and automation portfolio, including ownership, credentials, dependencies, schedules, and change history.

• Data analytics, BI, and AI

• Create and maintain Tableau or equivalent BI dashboards for manufacturing performance, maintenance, quality, capacity, and management reporting.
• Clean, transform, validate, and analyze data; investigate abnormal trends and communicate insights clearly to business users.
• Define data sources, calculation logic, ownership, refresh frequency, access rules, and data-quality checks.
• Prototype responsible AI or machine-learning use cases where there is a clear business problem, validated data, measurable value, and appropriate human oversight.

• Project delivery and user adoption

• Lead or coordinate digitalization projects from ideation through requirements, development, testing, deployment, training, stabilization, and handover.
• Manage scope, priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder communication.
• Plan and conduct unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, and post-deployment verification.
• Create user guides, technical documents, training materials, release notes, and support procedures; collect feedback and drive adoption

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Automation, Mechatronics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience in software development, industrial digitalization, automation, data analytics, or a similar role. Strong graduate profiles with relevant projects may also be considered.
• Working proficiency in C#/.NET and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. PHP, LEAP, or other approved low-code platforms are advantageous.
• Practical knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and/or MySQL, including relational design, SQL queries, data validation, and performance fundamentals.

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+9% organic growth

150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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