Manufacturing Software Engineer

Overview

Blackline Safety (TSXV: BLN) is a wireless location leader that develops, manufactures, and markets products and services for worker safety monitoring. Blackline solutions deliver safety, security, and location awareness through innovative hardware and custom user interfaces, including mobile, messaging, and web services. Blackline's vision is to become the leading supplier of wirelessly connected worker safety monitoring products in the world.

The Manufacturing Software Engineer will support our manufacturing floor where we assemble and manufacture all products for our customers worldwide. From our circuit board manufacturing all the way through manufacturing and service, the Manufacturing Software Engineer will be focused on developing integrated software solutions to connect data sources and drive productivity improvements, and will work closely with other operational disciplines and R+D to drive improvements across multiple product lines and processes.

• Administer development, maintenance, and improvements to existing in-house manufacturing software and database implementations, and drive projects aimed at streamlining, simplifying, and improving robustness
• Develop new software solutions to improve data acquisition
• Develop and lead implementation of best-practices
• Develop process around change control for live software implementations
• Engage with Product Development, Quality, and other disciplines to ensure root-cause analyses and resolution of issues in product or process are completed
• Coordinate with developers of electronic interface hardware and mechanical interfaces to test and interface with product
• Investigate and find root cause of product test failures and drive resolution to improve product yield, quality, and throughput
• Lead initiatives to source new technologies to deliver gains in productivity, capacity, efficiency, and quality
• Support manufacturing readiness and required technical staffing needs for new product introduction launches, interfacing with Product Development to ensure new products meet production test requirements and that manufacturing product test deliverables are met
• Drive standardization and improvement in manufacturing software usage
• Manage development of documentation, procedures, and processes to standardize and improve manufacturing test operations

• You are highly motivated, independent, big-picture but attentive to details, and have a disciplined, collaborative approach to problem-solving
• You have strong interpersonal skills and can cross functional boundaries to rapidly find solutions to complex problems
• You are systematic and thorough in requirements gathering and definition
• You thrive working on multiple tasks simultaneously and easily manage quickly changing priorities in a fast-moving, high-growth environment
• You have a strong history of successes in your 5-10+ years of experience in operations and software development, built on your Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering or Computer Science degree
• You have high standards and a customer-centric approach
• You are data-driven and excel at finding patterns across multiple data sources
• You are hands-on and prepared to get involved with all aspects of operations with a can-do attitude and collaborative spirit

• Advanced experience in developing and debugging Python or C, C++, and/or Java, with experience in LabVIEW considered an asset
• Experience in integration and linkage of third-party software systems
• 5-10+ years experience in a mid-to-high volume manufacturing or operations environment, with preference given to candidates with Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma accreditation
• Demonstrated successes in leading projects or programs that have delivered significant results to Operations performance
• Ability to rapidly prioritize and balance conflicting priorities
• Exceptional ability to communicate in English, verbally and in writing
• Advanced experience in designing, consolidating, integrating with, and reporting from databases
• Experience in electronics circuit and PCB layout design, RF test design in cellular, GPS, and other bands, data analysis and management through…