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Senior Manufacturing Engineer at DSN Software in Peoria, IL
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Job Description
Manufacturing Engineer
Digital Manufacturing | Agile Delivery | Shop Floor Operations
Full-Time | On-Site | 10+ Years Experience
Diversified Services Network, Inc. (DSN) is seeking a full-time Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Mossville, IL! We offer full benefits, PTO, 401k, and more! If you’re looking to grow your engineering career within an extremely reputable, stable Fortune 500 company — let’s talk!
Position Overview
We are seeking a Manufacturing Engineer with strong shop floor domain expertise and a digital product mindset to join our team, fully on-site in Mossville, IL. In this role, you will partner with IT and Azure DevOps (ADO) teams in the development and deployment of manufacturing-specific digital tools. The ideal candidate understands manufacturing processes deeply, can translate operational needs into clear digital requirements, and is comfortable working in Agile/DevOps delivery environments.
Why This Role?
- Serve as a critical bridge between manufacturing operations and digital delivery teams, directly influencing tools that improve production stability, safety, quality, and throughput.
- Gain hands-on experience partnering with IT and software product teams in an Agile/DevOps environment, building skills at the intersection of manufacturing and digital delivery.
- Work on high-impact digital manufacturing products — including OEE, connected equipment, digital twins, and production analytics — that scale across global facilities.
- Collaborate with a small, dispersed team of highly skilled engineers across facilities that are critical to the organization’s manufacturing strategy.
Key Contributions & Responsibilities
Represent manufacturing operations in the design of digital tools (e.g., OEE, connected equipment, digital twins, production analytics).
Define process intent, loss mechanisms, and operational constraints to guide solution development.
Ensure digital capabilities align with shop floor realities, safety standards, and quality systems.
Support pilot deployments and validate solutions in live manufacturing environments.
Partner with IT and product teams using Azure DevOps to develop manufacturing capabilities.
Create and refine Epics, Features, and Acceptance Criteria that reflect manufacturing outcomes.
Contribute to Agile planning, backlog refinement, and incremental delivery (MDP → MVP → MMP).
Support trade-off decisions between standardization, localization, and scalability.
Translate manufacturing problems into clear, testable digital requirements.
Identify critical data signals and events needed to support operational decision-making.
Define functional and non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, usability).
Ensure traceability from manufacturing need → digital feature → deployed capability.
Facilitate workshops with manufacturing, IT, data, and leadership stakeholders.
Align multiple facilities around common digital standards and operating models.
Actively prevent scope creep and reinforce outcome-driven development.
Support change management and adoption of digital tools on the shop floor.
Team Structure & Work Environment
- You will work within a small team of fewer than 10 engineers, dispersed across multiple facilities that are critical to the organization’s manufacturing strategy.
- Collaboration is cross-functional and multi-site, interfacing regularly with manufacturing, IT, data, and leadership stakeholders.
- Work environment is approximately 75% office-based and 25–50% on the manufacturing floor. PPE required for shop floor activities, including safety shoes and eye protection.
- This is a fully on-site role in Mossville, IL. Local candidates (within approximately 50 miles) are strongly preferred.
Candidate Requirements
Education & Experience
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience required. Candidates with a Master’s degree may be considered with 7 years of experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field required.
- Internship experience may be counted toward the required years of experience.
- Comparable backgrounds include Lean Black Belt, Manufacturing Project Engineer, or similar roles with strong shop floor and systems-level exposure.
Top 3 Skills
- Experience working in manufacturing or production environments (machining, assembly, fabrication, etc.).
- Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, equipment behavior, and process flows.
- Experience collaborating with IT, software, or digital product teams.
Required Technical Skills
- Working knowledge of Agile delivery concepts and Azure DevOps (or similar platforms).
- Ability to write clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills across technical and non-technical teams.
Desired Technical Skills
- Experience supporting or delivering digital manufacturing products (OEE, MES, analytics, connected equipment, digital twins).
- Familiarity with manufacturing data sources (PLC, SCADA, MES, CMMS, historians).
- Experience in multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD concepts, or digital product lifecycle models.
- Experience supporting pilot-to-scale digital implementations.
Required Soft Skills
Manufacturing domain expertise combined with systems-level thinking.
Digital product mindset focused on value delivery and outcome-driven development.
Strong requirements and problem-definition skills.
Cross-functional collaboration and the ability to influence without direct authority.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving environments with competing priorities.
401(k)
Dental insurance
Vision Insurance
Disability insurance
Employee assistance program
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Paid Holidays
Please follow the link to our website for a list of job openings in Engineering, IT, Project Management, and more! https://www.dsnworldwide.com
Salary expectations: 90,000-96,000 per annual