Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Manufacturing & Process Expertise
- Partner with plant leadership, operations, engineering, and IT stakeholders to assess current-state manufacturing processes and identify improvement opportunities.
- Support and/or Lead manufacturing digital transformation initiatives across process, batch, and discrete manufacturing environments.
- Translate operational requirements into technology-enabled solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
- Facilitate workshops and interviews with plant personnel to capture business, operational, and technical requirements.
MES & Manufacturing Systems
- Design, implement, and optimize MES solutions supporting production, quality, genealogy, traceability, OEE, electronic batch records, and reporting.
- Support and/or Lead MES platform selection, architecture design, roadmap development, and deployment activities.
- Integrate MES systems with ERP, historians, SCADA, DCS, PLCs, laboratory systems, and enterprise analytics platforms.
- Define manufacturing data models and workflows aligned to operational requirements.
Industrial Automation & OT Systems
- Assess and design architectures involving DCS, SCADA, PLC, HMI, Historian, and industrial communication systems.
- Support and/or Lead modernization initiatives involving OT infrastructure and industrial control systems.
- Collaborate with automation engineers and plant personnel to ensure reliable and scalable system integration.
Client Delivery & Consulting
- Support and/or Lead client workshops, assessments, architecture reviews, and solution design sessions.
- Develop recommendations, roadmaps, business cases, and implementation strategies.
- Present findings and recommendations to both technical and executive stakeholders.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant industry and/or consulting experience in two or more manufacture areas (design, build, sell or support)
- 5+ years of practical industry functional operational experience (OpEx/continuous improvement implementation) in factories, including warehouse, production, and distribution performance metrics, KPI development, shopfloor TPM/IWS deployment, OEE/MTBF/C/O analytics, integration of smart factory tools/solutions, and knowledge of workforce readiness programs.
- 5+ years of experience in the functional capabilities of enterprise packages (SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree
- Ability to travel for client needs
Preferred Skills:
- Experience within Life Sciences, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, or Energy industries.
- Prior consulting experience preferred.
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