Systems Analyst - Smart Manufacturing

Position

Systems Analyst – Smart Manufacturing

Location

Arden, NC

About Us

BorgWarner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. We are a company of innovators and independent thinkers that brings together talented employees, meaningful work and amazing technology in a unique environment. At BorgWarner, we constantly work towards our vision of a clean and energy-efficient world. 

Our Culture

BorgWarner promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration.  We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority.

Career Opportunities  

We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies, and vision for the future. We offer positions locally and globally with over 80 locations in 19 countries.

If this position energizes you and you feel you can help us achieve our mission and vision, you are invited to submit an application for consideration.

You may see the list of requirements and feel you do not meet all of them. However, remember that BorgWarner thinks differently. If your qualifications align with the majority of those outlined in this job description, we encourage you to apply and share your experience and skills with us.

For a listing of Asheville/Arden openings: BorgWarner Openings

Job Purpose

The BorgWarner Arden campus offers two world class technical centers and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility that designs and produces turbos, fan, and fan drive components for the automotive industry. The Arden campus offers a multitude of career opportunities and is in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.

The Smart Manufacturing team drives the future of connected, data-driven production, delivering secure and scalable solutions across MES, Industry 4.0, IIoT, and digital transformation. We connect machines, systems, and data across our global production sites to enable real-time visibility, standardized digital capabilities, advanced analytics, and continuous productivity improvements – working closely with manufacturing, engineering, logistics, IT, and business stakeholders to reduce complexity, uphold global standards, and accelerate adoption of smart manufacturing technologies.

Reporting to the Manager Smart Manufacturing IT, this role translates manufacturing requirements into functional designs, configurations, integrations, test plans, and support models for scalable MES, IIoT, and smart manufacturing solutions. It bridges manufacturing, IT, and business stakeholders to enable data-driven operations, secure OT/IT integration, and measurable gains in productivity, flexibility, resilience, and sustainability – with an eye on where the smart factory is heading, not just where it is today.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, rollout, and continuous improvement of a global smart manufacturing / IIoT platform connecting machines, systems, and data across production environments.
• Partner with international, cross-functional teams to define scalable digital standards, reusable solution patterns, and integration frameworks for Industry 4.0 and IIoT.
• Identify and evaluate high-value digital use cases – production optimization, logistics, predictive insights, energy efficiency, and data-driven decision support
• Lead assigned solutions and projects end to end, from concept to handover: planning, estimation, delivery tracking, and management of risks, scope, dependencies, and change requests, with regular updates to stakeholders and steering committees.
• Analyze, design, and standardize global target processes, data flows, and digital tools together with local production, logistics, engineering, and IT organizations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies – IioT integration, edge/cloud connectivity, industrial data architecture, and analytics/AI enablement – to strengthen future smart-factory capabilities and keep solutions extensible (e.g., digital-twin- and analytics-ready)
• Ensure stable day-to-day operation of smart manufacturing systems while introducing innovative services and embedding digital-lean principles into future solutions
• Develop technical specifications, perform IT testing, and create documentation and end-user training, so systems are adopted correctly an