Senior Developer Applications at Tyson Foods, Inc. in Springdale, Arkansas

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Summary:



This is a role within Tyson's Supply Chain Organization. The supervisory organization is the Optimization and Automation team. This team works to provide data, software, and hardware tools to our 103 manufacturing facilities. The group is focused on improving efficiency, quality, yield, safety, and overall day to day processes in Tyson's manufacturing plants. You will study Tyson operations and work with process experts to come up with innovative technology solutions that can be standardized and scaled within Tyson. This can involve sourcing solutions from established vendors, co-developing solutions with our strategic vendors, collaborating with startup companies, and/or doing R&D work to create solutions that are unique to Tyson needs. This role / team will identify opportunities, develop proof of concept solutions and present to executive leadership. These opportunities will be founded in data from our systems of record and this team will be solving problems that best meet the needs of our business and are in high demand.



Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work with our production facilities to identify potential process improvement tools that can be developed internally


• Handle large data sets from multiple sources and consolidate into meaningful information that can be used to identify areas of opportunity or justify already identified opportunities


• Bring insight and contribute to the development and best practices of these tools


• Provide hands-on development for proof of concepts, technical playbooks/design patterns


• Lead the enhancements of platform or solution observability, monitoring, reliability and scalability


• Create solid business cases and financial justification for proposed projects and opportunities


• Work within our Tyson data record databases (AWS, GCP, SAP, Oracle, etc)


• Work hand in hand with our Smart Factories Foundation Team to utilize our Ignition SCADA plant floor data to create meaningful insights


• Work collaboratively with our plant floor team members to understand the challenges they are facing and how to best solve them


• Up to 25% Travel (Mostly US)

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor of Science degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or other related fields


• 3-5 years' experience in manufacturing


• Good communication and team-working skills


• Good mathematical and problem solving skills


• Highly proficient in excel (Pivot tables, macros, VBA, etc)


• Proficiency in SQL, Python, or other popular coding languages


• Sufficient knowledge of manufacturing processes (any industry)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in an Engineering or data science field


• Food & Beverage manufacturing experience


• Machine learning experience


• Familiarity with Ignition


• Experience with vision technology in the manufacturing space


• IOT experience

Must submit resume to be considered; Candidates must reside in the US, as no sponsorship or relocation benefits are offered.



Relocation Assistance Eligible:

No



Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)


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Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.


We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.



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