Applications Engineer

About the Role

This position is required to provide sustainment support of the Aero Apriso Pathfinder (AAP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) on the shop floor and to execute the ongoing development, testing, and integration of MES capabilities that resolve technical manufacturing problems and enable the next generation of production operations. The candidate will support the successful completion of major AAP releases and enhancements. The Manufacturing Systems Applications Engineer will be an integral part of a cross-organizational team of experts supporting the sustainment and continuous improvement of the AAP MES and its integrations with the broader production operations toolset.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate and gather information concerning the technical capabilities of the AAP MES and related production operations systems.
• Stay abreast of developments in Apriso and complementary shop floor technologies that may be used to improve existing fabrication, assembly, and inspection processes.
• Analyze shop floor user problems.
• Triage and resolve production-impacting issues.
• Design new MES capabilities within the current framework.
• Coordinate solutions for manufacturing digital transformation.
• Communicate requirements to information technology architects.
• Present solutions to functional core process owners.
• Contribute directly to capability development.
• Author and execute test scripts.
• Perform functional, regression, and user acceptance testing of the system prior to deployment to production.
• Participate in the development, documentation, training, and deployment of new Production Operations Business Processes associated with AAP capabilities and enhancements.
• Provide day-to-day sustainment support to shop floor users to ensure system availability, data integrity, and manufacturing execution continuity.
• Gathers information concerning the capabilities of company products.
• Investigates the technical capabilities of company products and competing equipment.
• Stays abreast of developments in hardware and software.
• Analyzes customer problems.
• Assists in designing systems to satisfy customer needs.
• Prepares equipment analysis to instruct sales force and customers in equipment capabilities.
• May prepare and present sales proposals.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience supporting a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in a production or sustainment role.
• Experience authoring and executing test scripts (functional, regression, and/or user acceptance testing).
• Experience gathering requirements from end users and translating them into system capabilities or configuration changes.
• Understanding of shop floor operations, routings, work instructions, quality inspections, and non-conformance processes.
• Direct experience with Dassault Systèmes Apriso.
• Familiarity with Apriso Process Builder.
• Experience with MES integrations to ERP (SAP), PLM, and shop floor data collection systems.
• Working knowledge of the Siemens Xcelerator and/or Dassault 3DX tool suites.
• Experience with SQL, relational databases, and reading application/system logs for troubleshooting.
• Experience utilizing Agile tools such as Jira.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interface with shop floor users, IT architects, and functional core process owners.
• Ability to troubleshoot production-impacting issues and drive them to resolution.

Qualifications

• MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

The salary range listed is a general guideline; Lockheed Martin considers factors such as scope, responsibilities, candidate experience, education, skills, market, and business considerations.