MES & Industrial Integration Analyst in Milton

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects.

Group Summary: Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

Job Responsibilities:

• POSITION SUMMARY: The MES & Industrial Integration Analyst plans, develops, integrates, supports, and continuously improves manufacturing execution systems and the industrial data pathways that connect shop-floor equipment with Modatek’s information systems. The role supports MES applications, Ignition, Kepware, OPC connectivity, production-data collection, traceability, manufacturing reporting, and approved IIoT or edge-integration initiatives.
• JOB REQUIREMENTS: Post-secondary education in automation, robotics, controls, computer engineering, information systems, software engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. Experience with MES or industrial applications; Ignition, Kepware, OPC, SQL, APIs, reporting, or manufacturing integration experience is preferred. Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, production support, traceability, data collection, testing, and structured troubleshooting. Awareness of networking, Windows or Linux services, databases, identity, access, cybersecurity, backup, monitoring, and change management. Strong documentation, communication, analytical, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Ability to support approved after-hours deployments, maintenance, incident response, or production recovery when required.
• Core Accountabilities:
• 1. MES Ownership and Support: Plan, configure, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and support approved MES applications and interfaces. Support Ignition, production reporting, traceability, labelling workflows, and assigned manufacturing functions. Triage incidents by isolating application, integration, database, network, middleware, equipment, or process causes and escalating appropriately. Maintain system health records, known issues, support procedures, and escalation paths.
• 2. Industrial and IT/OT Integration: Design and support approved data flows among PLC-connected systems, OPC, Kepware, Ignition, MES, ERP, SQL, APIs, dashboards, and data platforms. Maintain approved tags, counters, data routines, mappings, schemas, and validation rules. Coordinate network, server, firewall, certificate, service-account, storage, backup, and monitoring needs with Systems Analysts.
• 3. Requirements, Design, and Delivery: Analyze manufacturing issues, document current and future processes, and translate approved requirements into specifications. Estimate dependencies, risks, milestones, testing, and support needs. Evaluate reuse, configuration, integration, purchase, and custom-development options.
• 4. Data Quality, Traceability, and Reporting: Implement controls that improve manufacturing-data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and traceability. Define validation, exception handling, reconciliation, and acceptance criteria with business and data owners.
• 5. IIoT, Edge, and Future Factory Enablement: Support approved sensor, edge, MQTT, streaming, microservice, and industrial-data initiatives requiring manufacturing integration.
• 6. Governance, Cybersecurity, and Change Control: Follow approved security, access, source-control, testing, documentation, change, release, and segregation-of-duties practices.
• 7. Documentation, Recovery, and Lifecycle: Maintain architecture, data-flow, interface, host, dependency, runbook, support, deployment, and recovery documentation.
• 8. Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer: Guide co-op students, junior staff, contractors, and project members on assigned MES and integration work.

WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES: Maintains safety standards of equipment and work area and perform all duties in a safe manner in accordance with the safety policies of Modatek Systems.

Work and Physical Environment: Office and manufacturing environment, but may be exposed to elements such as temperature and noise and sitting for extended periods of time. Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and to handle other computer components. Works rotating shifts or static shifts dependent on business requirements. On-call availability and occasional evening and weekend work to meet deadlines. Physically able to perform the essential duties of the position. Lifting and transporting of moderately heavy objects, such as servers, computers and peripherals.

Salary Range: $90,000 - $110,000 per year.

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment: At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.