Network Engineer w/Manufacturing Facility experience | W2 Role

Role: Network Engineer w/Manufacturing Facility experience
Location: Brookville, IN - Fairburn, GA, Waxahachie, TX onsite 5 days per week
Skills Required

• Knowledge and experience in manufacturing facilities
• Walking with escorts throughout facilities of all sizes
• Comfort in facilities with active manufacturing that could be hot, noisy, and dirty
• Listening to and understanding safety briefings and requirements at each facility
• Facilitating data collection, documentation, classification, and analysis consultatively
• Following prescribed methods, procedures, and processes in collecting, classifying, and analyzing data
• Strong skills in communication, collaboration, documentation, and problem resolution
• Skills in identifying, prioritizing, and documenting business and technical requirements
• Ability to resolve issues independently as needed
• Skills in Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)

General Technical Skills

• General knowledge of manufacturing control systems and the ability to acquire the following information related to those systems:

o Are they connected to an isolated manufacturing network (OT)?

o Are they connected to the Internet or other media that provides access to operations, maintenance, or other support teams (equipment manufacturer)?

• Knowledge related to fiber, copper, or wireless/radio methods in a manufacturing facility
• Knowledge related to network switching, routing, operations, and support requirements in a manufacturing facility
• Knowledge related to backup power (AC/DC), cabinets, rooms, and environment controls
• Knowledge of equipment operational range requirements for equipment deployed in a manufacturing facility
• Knowledge of front office wired and wireless network deployments
• Knowledge of fiber, copper, Wi-Fi, and other analysis tools and how they may be used in data collection.

Specific Technical Skills

• IPv4 and IPv6 networking skills
• Knowledge and skills regarding the OSI model (especially Layer 1 through Layer 3 as it pertains to site discovery)
• Knowledge of fiber types and their transport capabilities, termination, regeneration, etc.
• Knowledge of copper (Ethernet) capabilities, limitations, and specifications based on its type/classification (Types 5, 5e, 6, etc.)
• Ability to work with the Customer to acquire connection-specific information from switches, routers, and Wi-Fi (access point/controller)
• Ability to use active network information to determine endpoints, cross connections, etc.
• Understanding and ability to assess network security policies (access control list [ACL], firewall rules, etc.)
• Ability to leverage collected information to create current design documentation for brownfield environments
• Ability to leverage requirements and collected data to create low-level designs (LLDs [e.g., physical connectivity diagrams]) in brownfield and greenfield environments aligned to IT/OT environments

Scope of Work to Be Performed

• OT endpoint analysis:

o Quantity/type of currently connected endpoints

o Quantity/type of non-connected endpoints

o Quantity/type of devices connected using NATR solutions

• Physical mapping of endpoints:

o Graphical overlay of endpoints on a plant floorplan

o Pictures of endpoints associated with overlay

• Perform cabling/infrastructure analysis:

o Available cabling/access switching

o Required cabling for additional endpoint connectivity

• Identify OT cell/functional area:

o Determine and identify OT functional areas

o Create diagram of plant floor indicating cell demarcation

• Create resulting LLD:

o Physical design (cabling, MDF/IDF, etc.)

o Logical design (topology, overlay diagram, etc.)

o Creating bill of materials

o Implementation plan

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Asher Williams
Desk: 2o1.497.1o1o X:1o5 | Direct: 551.272.o129
asher (at) pullskill dot com