Production Data Engineer - Intern

About the role

You will serve as the core architect of the digital shop floor, focusing on the operation, optimization, and development of the Manufacturing Execution System. This role bridges the gap between IT and physical manufacturing processes to ensure seamless digital production flows and real-time factory intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, optimize, and drive the development of the MES environment to support physical assembly and manufacturing workflows.
• Collaborate with production teams to translate complex physical manufacturing processes into digital workflows.
• Connect the MES with ERP and shop-floor automation layers to ensure traceability, data continuity, and quality analytics.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to monitor key performance indicators such as OEE, throughput, yield, and downtime.
• Build and manage intuitive dashboards to provide leadership and operations teams with actionable insights.

Required skills

• MES
• ERP
• Data pipelines
• Analytics
• Data visualization
• IT security
• Data governance

Qualifications

• Ability to act as a translator between production workers and software developers
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance

About the Company

STARK is a defence technology company revolutionizing the deployment of autonomous systems across multiple domains. They design, develop, and manufacture high-performance, software-defined, and mass-scalable unmanned systems to support NATO Allies and their partners.