Operational Technology​/Manufacturing Systems Engineer

About Bobrick

Headquartered in North Hollywood, CA, Bobrick is a global leader in stainless steel commercial washroom accessories with more than 100 years of innovation. Founded in 1906, Bobrick pioneered the world's first lavatory-mounted soap dispenser and has grown into a mid-sized, privately owned enterprise with trusted brands like Koala Kare. Today, Bobrick operates eight manufacturing facilities across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and India, serving customers in over 125 countries worldwide.

Bobrick is seeking an Operational Technology Engineer to play a key role in the evolution of its manufacturing operations toward a fully connected, smart factory. As part of the Manufacturing Engineering's Operational Technology team, you'll help integrate shop-floor equipment, a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and other enterprise platforms into a unified digital ecosystem to enable smarter, more efficient manufacturing across multiple sites.

You will ensure that our machines, systems, and people are able to seamlessly communicate digitally, so we can run smarter, faster, and with better data.

In this role, you’ll design, implement, and support data flows, interfaces, and analytics tools that connect manufacturing operations to corporate systems and decision-making. You’ll collaborate with teams across various disciplines and departments, as well as with outside vendors, to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and scalable. This is a hands-on, high-impact position where you’ll contribute directly to Bobrick’s digital transformation (MES rollout, Spec2saw workflows, AI/analytics projects).

Joining Bobrick as an Operational Technology Engineer offers a variety of experiences and growth opportunities, from hands-on integration work and dashboard development to involvement in large-scale MES and digital transformation projects. This position is central to our smart factory roadmap and will support the company in moving from manual data collection and siloed systems toward a connected, data-driven manufacturing environment. Your work directly impacts productivity, quality, and how we make strategic decisions on the shop floor.

As you demonstrate initiative, technical skill, and curiosity, this role will expand in scope and your responsibilities and influence will grow. You’ll gain exposure to cutting-edge Industry 4.0 technologies, develop expertise in integration engineering and industrial data, and help shape the future of Bobrick’s smart manufacturing systems.

Design-to-Manufacturing Data Integration

• Support initiatives that connect CAD/CAM/BIM tools with enterprise and shop-floor systems (ERP, MES, QMS, WMS).
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract product specifications, bills of materials (BOMs), and design attributes from design tools and integrate them into Bobrick’s internal systems.
• Ensure that data from design through manufacturing is accurately structured, validated, and mapped for production scheduling and execution.
• Collaborate with IT, Engineering, and Business Units to achieve integration objectives.
• Document workflows, mappings, and standards for ongoing governance and reuse.

System and Equipment Integration

• Assist in developing and maintaining system integrations across MES, ERP, QMS, and WMS platforms.
• Support connectivity between shop-floor equipment (PLCs, CNCs, vision systems, torque tools) and higher-level systems using industrial protocols such as OPC UA, MQTT/Sparkplug, Modbus, PackML, and MTConnect.
• Configure IoT gateways and middleware platforms (e.g., Ignition, Kepware, Kafka, Mule Soft) to maintain secure and reliable data transfer.
• Document integration architectures through Interface Control Documents (ICDs), diagrams, and configuration standards.

Data Engineering and Analytics

• Develop SQL queries, ETL pipelines, and reporting structures for MES and OT data.
• Configure and maintain historians or time-series databases to capture and analyze equipment and process data.
• Build real-time dashboards and visualizations using Power BI and Tableau to monitor KPIs such as OEE, downtime, scrap, and yield.

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