Software Engineer

The person in this role works with the operations, engineering, and quality organizations by creating software tools and systems to assist with production traceability, process error proofing, production automation, AI tools and agents, and business process automation. To be successful the candidate must be self-motivated, a quick learner, possess good communication skills, have a positive attitude, a passion for continuous improvement, innovative and be able work independently but be a team player.

High Level Mission Statement

It is the mission of KEJ to serve the KEG business unit by providing the software, systems, tools, support and training to achieve:

• Increased productivity
• Employee growth and satisfaction
• Customer satisfaction
• Increased profitability

High Level Statement of the Role

The Software Engineer is responsible for developing software applications and AI tools to automate transactions, reports, and analysis as well as evaluate both existing and prospective systems, software, and tools to maximize automation and efficiency at the lowest possible cost.

High Level Roles & Responsibilities

• Integrate equipment and information systems to automate data exchange and enhance reporting
• Develop routines to automate routine and/or rules-based transactions where the data to make the decision(s) exists within current systems
• Research new tools, software, and equipment for plant specific needs to more highly automate operations, transactions, and reporting in all departments
• Develop AI agents to automate processes
• Write, test, and debug program code
• Evaluate existing transactions and reports for automation opportunities, translate opportunities into technical requirements, logic, and code
• Write interfaces, conversions, reports and queries
• Utilize APIs and other mechanisms to integrate and automate execution and reporting of existing and future tools
• Participate on project teams with numerous technical and non-technical disciplines
• Document processes and systems
• Support tools and applications as required
• Work with global team to interact with global systems in an acceptable manner to automate transactions to/from global systems
• Comply with all Safety, Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and Quality Management System (QMS) requirements

Skills to Perform This Role

Interpersonal Skills

• Extremely Creative/Innovative in groups and teams
• Self motivated
• Work with a variety of disciplines, situations, and people
• Facilitate and communicate organizational and process changes
• Positive attitude
• Team player – easy to get along with
• Sense of Humor

Technical Skills

• Understanding of electronics manufacturing processes
• Experience With Specific Tools: SAP, PLM, Workday, and Azure DevOps Environment, Copilot, and Azure Foundry tools
• Development experience with .NET, SQL Server, C, HTML, Python, and Angular in an open systems environment on Windows systems
• Experience with APIs and other software automation mechanisms and ability to automate interaction of various software packages and databases
• Experience developing system interfaces, machine interfaces, web applications, web services and clients, Windows services and forms, software libraries, database development, and scripting
• Experience developing and maintaining highly modular code libraries utilizing revision control software
• Experience with lean software development methodologies to facilitate the rapid prototyping, development, and deployment of applications and systems
• Software project management experience (scope, workload, resources, timeline, revision control)
• Ability to translate “vague” verbal descriptions of processes and transactions into detailed logic flow and code

Communication Skills

• Extract rules for rules-based decisions from team members
• Effectively communicate technical and non-technical information to/from both non-technical and technical users
• Good written and verbal communication

Leadership Skills

• Open minded visionary
• Champion diversity of ideas and thought processes
• Good organization skills
• Ability to Mentor/Teach/Coach
• Ability to make decisions

Business Skills

• Outstanding vision and problem solving skills
• Handle multiple simultaneous projects
• Meet challenging deadlines
• Prioritize projects by maximum positive business impact
• Lean Six Sigma methodologies to solve business problems

Basic Background Requirements

This position will require

• Knowledge of SQL data base systems
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET development systems.
• Project Management experience and understanding of the need for software and systems implementation controls
• Knowledge of shop floor control, ERP systems, AI tools and systems, and Machine Learning preferred.
• Familiar with business and manufacturing processes
• The ability to work with all levels of the organization (Operators, indirect staff, leadership)
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science is preferred.