Digital Manufacturing Engineer
Capgemini Engineering · Overland Park, KS
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Travel
- 25%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 6 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at Capgemini Engineering (industrial) in Overland Park, KS.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- PLC, Automation, SAP
- Day to day
- about 25% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $98k–$143k.
Median of the low and high ends of 502 live postings that list pay, out of 1495 manufacturing engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Kansas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 10 other live manufacturing postings in Kansas.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 64%
- Lean 45%
- Root cause 45%
- ✓ Team leadership 45%
- Six Sigma 36%
- ✓ PLC 27%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for SAP, Python, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Manufacturing team at Capgemini Engineering
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- The posting says about 25% travel. Between which sites?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Full description from Capgemini EngineeringAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Your Role
- ◆Design and develop responsive industrial web applications using Ignition Perspective and supporting web technologies
- ◆Extend Ignition’s out-of-the-box components using JavaScript, CSS, and Python scripting to meet complex business and operational
requirements
- ✓Build modular, maintainable application architectures that support long-term scalability and reuse Data & Systems Integration
- ✓Connect equipment and control systems to Ignition using OPC, Kepware, tags, and related industrial technologies
- ✓Configure and troubleshoot real-time and historical data collection
- ✓Integrate applications with industrial and enterprise systems including: SQL databases, SAP, Sharepoint, Active Directory, OPC and historian data sources (Kepware, Canary, etc.), REST APIsDesign efficient data models and queries optimized for real-time operational use Manufacturing Collaboration
- ✓Work directly in the manufacturing environment with trades, engineers, IT, supervisors, and managers to understand equipment, processes, and operational needs
- ✓Determine what machine and process data is required, how it can be acquired, and how it should be presented to support end users
- ✓Translate diverse user needs into intuitive applications and visualizations, adapting effectively to different technical backgrounds and communication styles
- ✓Build trusted client relationships and represent the engineering team and company professionally
- ✓Implement robust error handling, logging, and diagnostics
- ✓Ensure solutions meet performance, security, reliability, and compliance
requirements
- ✓Produce clear technical documentation and solution architecture diagrams.
- ✓Your Skills and Experience
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- ✓We are looking 5 -7 Years of practical Ignition experience including custom development and integration services.
- ✓Strong experience with web UI development concepts: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Responsive design and modern UI patterns
- ✓Proficiency in Python scripting for application logic and automation
- ✓Solid experience working with SQL databases and relational data models
- ✓Experience integrating external systems using REST APIs or web services
- ✓Ability to design maintainable, modular software — not just single-purpose screens
- ✓Hands-on experience with SCADA/HMI systems and live industrial data
- ✓Experience configuring and troubleshooting OPC connections, tags, and historian data
- ✓Ability to understand equipment, controls, production workflows, and real-time operational
requirements
- ✓Experience with Ignition, Kepware, Canary, or comparable technologies strongly preferred Customer & Manufacturing Aptitude
- ✓Comfortable working independently in an active industrial environment to understand equipment, processes, and user needs firsthand
- ✓Able to communicate effectively with operators, maintenance trades, engineers, supervisors, and management Strong judgment, interpersonal maturity, and ability to build trust with users of widely varying technical backgrounds
- ✓Able to translate loosely-defined operational problems into practical, intuitive digital solutions.
- ✓Ability to travel 25% to client site in VA.
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Location This is a Remote Role, Ability to travel 25% to client site in VA.About the job you're considering We are building modern, highly customized digital applications on top of the Ignition platform to support complex discrete manufacturing operations. This is a hybrid industrial software engineering role, combining hands-on experience with SCADA and industrial data systems with strong modern software development fundamentals. Candidates should be comfortable working with live plant-floor data through OPC, Kepware, tags, and historians, while also building robust, maintainable web-based applications. You will use Ignition as the application platform — integrating real-time and historical data and extending Perspective with Python scripting, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, and APIs to create scalable desktop and mobile manufacturing solutions. This is also a highly field- and customer-facing role. During site visits, you will work independently throughout the customer facility with operators, trades, engineers, supervisors and managers to understand equipment and workflows, determine what data is needed and how to acquire it, and translate those needs into useful solutions. Success requires strong communication, maturity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to build trust across a diverse user community while representing our company professionally. Hands-on industrial data experience is required, with Ignition, Kepware, and Canary experience preferred. This is not primarily a PLC programming or traditional HMI configuration role; we are looking for engineers who can bridge OT systems, industrial data, modern application development and the people who use those systems.