Junior Digitalization Engineer

About the job

Franke plans to setup a digitalization platform in major plants on an openshift containerized factory edge solution architecture: Digital production system (DPS):

Manufacturing Operation Management (MOM) : Smart BI, Digital twin of production; Connected processes.

We are looking for a Junior Digitalization Engineer (JDE) for our Franke Center of Competence (CoC) that manages and supports DPS in daily operation locally with respect to infrastructure, applications & maintenance. The JDE collaborates closely with local & global IT department, he/her possesses digitalization skills to effectively maintain, and support connected manufacturing processes, enables Franke production to achieve greater efficiency, agility, and competitiveness. He is well-equipped to deploy, manage, and support software in OpenShift environments effectively. He designs, implements, and maintains a reliable and efficient communication infrastructure to support manufacturing operations.

Use Cases : Infrastructure & production maintenance: manage status of different infrastructure layers, provide first level support (2024):

First entry point to local production teams to support in case of unidentified production issues

Identifies / solves issue (reset some fields in OPC UA etc) and addresses / follow-up issues with the right supplier(s) involve

Provide second level support (2025)

Applications : smartBI basics (2024) and smartBI advanced (2025): configure new dashboards on user’s request, add new data models & new data sources; Integration layer basics (2024). Plant Service Bus (PSB) advanced (2025): CI, CD: develop & deploy new flows, queues etc

Your tasks

Key skills generic, (importance in this order sequence) : Problem-Solving, 1st level support local production team; Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, including lean manufacturing principles, quality control, and production scheduling; ability to integrate diverse hardware and software components, including PLCs, HMIs, MOM, and ERP systems, into the plant service bus architecture to enable seamless data exchange and interoperability; networking Understands networking concepts (TCP/IP, profinet, VLANs, routing) and networking technologies (Ethernet, Wi-Fi); familiarity with industrial communication protocols such as OPC UA, Modbus, Profibus, Profinet, MQTT, and Ethernet/IP is essential for configuring, troubleshooting, and optimizing the machine & systems integration layer (plant service bus); excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including engineers, technicians, managers, and executives.

Nice to have skills (generic, importance in this order sequence) : understands data analytics concepts and tools to analyze and derive actionable insights from the vast amounts of data generated by sensors and devices connected to the integration layer (plant service bus), enabling data-driven decision-making and process optimization; familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana) and the ability to instrument applications for monitoring and logging are crucial for ensuring the health and performance of applications running on OpenShift; familiar in implementing IoT solutions and sensor technologies to monitor equipment performance, track production metrics; OpenShift is built on top of Kubernetes, so you need a good understanding of Kubernetes concepts such as pods, deployments, services, namespaces; familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton) is important for setting up automated pipelines to build, test, and deploy applications to OpenShift clusters; familiarity with cloud computing platforms and services for hosting and managing data generated by connected manufacturing processes. Skills in cloud deployment, migration, and optimization enable organizations to leverage scalable and cost-effective computing resources for data storage, analytics, and application deployment; familiarity in Git version control is necessary for managing source code repositories, collaborating with team members, and integrating version control with CI/CD pipelines; knowledge of Java programming and build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle) for developing and packaging Java applications to run on OpenShift; writing automation scripts, custom controllers, and operators in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. Understanding Python scripting can be beneficial for extending and customizing OpenShift deployments

SKILLs specific to Oncite DPS; 
• OpenShift is a containerization platform: containerization concepts and related technologies
• SmartMOM (education provided by GEC)
• QlikSense (skill level: adjust dashboards | Education provided by GEC)
• IBM appconnect Enterprise (skill level: tbd )
• PSB Ci/Cd (skill level: tbd )
• OpenShift Kubernetes (skill level: can modify/add containerized applications, integration of third party developments in OpenShift, )
• AppSmith (FrontEnd dev tool)

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

What we offer you

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