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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