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.