Manufacturing Analytics Engineer
Prysmian Group
Lexington, South Carolina(remote)
- 5+ years in a manufacturing analytics role.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, or engineering
- Experience with AVEVA, Ignition, PLC tags required
- Willingness to travel at least 50% also required
- Own end-to-end data flow from OT historians (PI, Aveva, Ignition) to analytics and reporting environments.
- Design, script, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for historian-to-cloud data movement using Python, SQL, and AWS services.
- Develop reusable data models, APIs, and standardized data structures for use across plants and digital platforms.
- Troubleshoot and resolve data flow disruptions, historian tag failures, and dashboard refresh issues.
- Collaborate with plant engineers, OT, and IT teams to maintain secure, standardized, and reliable data pipelines.
- OT & Historian Layer: AVEVA PI System / AF, Aveva Insight, Ignition (Vision, Perspective, Tag Historian).
- Visualization & BI: QlikSense enterprise dashboards.
- Data Transformation: SQL and Python for modeling, scripting, and automation.
- Cloud Integration: AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, IoT Core) for data storage, transformation, and orchestration.
- Governance: Implement and enforce data naming conventions, lineage documentation, and retention policies.
- Automation: Develop and maintain automated ETL pipelines and data orchestration workflows.
- Deliver automated, validated, and standardized dashboards and reports for OEE, downtime, scrap, and energy KPIs.
- Develop APIs and data connectors to share information across MES, CMMS, and other digital platforms.
- Ensure data models and structures are AI-ready for future machine-learning applications.
- Standardize KPI definitions and data models across plants, allowing variation only where process differences require.
- Integrate analytics and insights into operational processes and decision-making workflows.
- Mentor junior analysts and plant associates, building local data literacy and self-service analytics capabilities.
- Reports to: OT and Operations organization.
- Collaborates with IT for ERP, AWS, and network integrations.
- Works with Engineering at the plant level for PLC-to-server and OT network data reliability.
- Initial focus: Stabilize and standardize data flows and dashboards across plants.
- Long-term evolution: Grow into Data Architecture and Systems Strategy leadership, defining enterprise standards for OT data.
- Future collaboration: Partner with external AI specialists when the organization moves into predictive and AI-driven initiatives.
About the Company
Prysmian Group
Prysmian is world leader of the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, with some 19,000 employees across 50 countries worldwide.
Prysmian Group operates 10 plants in North America serving the telecom and energy markets. The Group consists of Prysmian and Draka, two of the strongest and most respected commercial brands in the industry, whose highly complementary products and services meet the needs for two distinct sectors: Telecom Cables & Systems produces optical fibers, optical cables and connectivity for video, data and voice transmission. Prysmian Group has two fiber optic manufacturing facilities in the United States covering 1.5 million square feet, including the only co-located fiber and cable facility in North America.
In our energy business, we design and produce cables and systems for the transmission and distribution of low, medium, high and extra high voltage systems. In 2009, Prysmian built the only Vertical Continuous Vulcanization line in North America in the Abbeville, SC plant. This facility is used to produce insulated high voltage cables. In addition, the group has a manufacturing facility in Prescott, Ontario to meet Canada’s power cabling needs.
A key factor in managing the Group's business is attention to sustainable development and the environment. As part of its activities, the Prysmian Group is involved in implementing management and production processes which help improve environmental sustainability and safety at work, in accordance with the guidelines of its HSE policy.