We are seeking a Senior Digital Manufacturing / MES Consultant with strong pharmaceutical shopfloor experience to support and enhance a complex Digital Shopfloor Manufacturing Environment (DSME). The consultant will rapidly assess the current landscape, engage with site stakeholders, evaluate operational and technical backlog items, and help establish a practical support and continuous improvement model.
This role requires a hands-on consultant who can bridge manufacturing operations, digital technologies, site engagement, and product governance. The ideal candidate is not a generic project manager or pure developer, but someone with a deep understanding of MES, digital manufacturing, and regulated pharma environments who can drive practical execution and sustainable operational improvements.
Responsibilities
• Quickly understand and assess the current DSME and digital manufacturing landscape.
• Engage directly with operations, quality, automation, engineering, and IT stakeholders to gather feedback, identify pain points, and align priorities.
• Review, triage, and prioritize existing backlog items, incidents, and enhancement requests.
• Support and improve MES, digital shopfloor, eBR, equipment integration, and manufacturing data flow processes.
• Help define and implement practical support, governance, and continuous improvement models for manufacturing systems.
• Identify and deliver quick wins while contributing to long-term operational sustainability.
• Facilitate collaboration between site teams and technology stakeholders to improve system adoption, supportability, and operational effectiveness.
• Provide structured documentation, recommendations, and governance support for digital manufacturing products and platforms.
• Support alignment between manufacturing operations, technology delivery, and regulatory compliance expectations.
Requirements
• Strong experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), digital shopfloor solutions, electronic batch records (eBR), equipment integration, and manufacturing data flows.
• Deep understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing operations and regulated GxP environments.
• Experience working within regulated manufacturing environments with knowledge of data integrity, validation, and compliance considerations.
• Familiarity with Rockwell technologies, particularly FactoryTalk Optix and DataMosaix, is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with operations, quality, automation, engineering, and IT teams.
• Strong backlog triage, prioritization, documentation, and product governance capabilities.
• Practical delivery mindset with the ability to balance immediate operational needs and longer-term improvement initiatives.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced and evolving manufacturing environments.
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