Role: Connected Worker Project Specialist
Location: Kalamazoo, MI – 100% Onsite
Contract role
Job description:
The Technical Project Specialist will support the build-out of OEE and Connected Worker content for the Kalamazoo site. This role focuses on translating shop-floor SME knowledge into usable, accurate digital content — configuring the OEE/Connected Worker platform and creating training and enablement assets (e.g., SOPs, videos, AR/VR materials) and Power BI dashboards to drive adoption and performance.
Key Responsibilities
• Become proficient in configuring content within the OEE/Connected Worker software (site structures, workflows, assets, forms, instructions, and related content objects).
• Create and maintain enablement content, including training documents, SOPs, videos, AR/VR training aids, and Power BI dashboards aligned to operational needs.
• Partner with site SMEs to capture “tribal knowledge,” validate accuracy, and ensure the right content is loaded, tested, and kept current.
• Elicit and document requirements for digital shop-floor workflows and ensure alignment across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and ZTD.
• Support pilot-area execution (where applicable) and feedback loops to improve usability, standardization, and adoption.
• Apply GMP/data integrity awareness when developing and deploying digital content used in regulated operations.
Required Experience and Capabilities
• Strong computer proficiency, including Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word; Teams/SharePoint a plus).
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, batch execution, and shop-floor workflows; ability to work effectively across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Digital/IT.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting and documenting requirements for manufacturing digital solutions.
• Background and understanding of Lean Six Sigma and Operational Excellence preferred.
• Familiarity with GMP expectations, electronic records/data integrity considerations, and validation/computerized system implementation practices.
• Excellent workshop facilitation, customer focus, stakeholder management, documentation, and communication skills.
Top Skills:
• Strong computer proficiency, including Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word; Teams/SharePoint a plus).
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, batch execution, and shop-floor workflows; ability to work effectively across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Digital/IT.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting and documenting requirements for manufacturing digital solutions.
• Background and understanding of Lean Six Sigma and Operational Excellence preferred.
