NTT DATA Services

Manufacturing SME / Project Manager

NTT DATA Services • $110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Pennsylvania, US
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant industry and/or consulting experience in two or more manufacturing areas (design, build, sell or support)
  • 5+ years of practical operational experience in factories, including performance metrics and OpEx/continuous improvement implementation
  • 5+ years of experience with functional capabilities of enterprise packages like SAP, Salesforce, or Oracle
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Willingness to travel for client needs

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with leadership to evaluate and enhance manufacturing processes
  • Lead manufacturing digital transformation initiatives across various environments
  • Turn operational needs into technology solutions for measurable outcomes
  • Host workshops and interviews to gather technical and operational requirements
  • Design and optimize MES solutions to support production and quality metrics
  • Guide MES platform selection and deployment efforts
  • Create architectures for integrating industrial control systems
  • Lead client workshops and architectural reviews to provide tailored recommendations

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Supportive team environment with collaborative culture
  • Exposure to leading edge manufacturing technology solutions
  • Travel opportunities that enhance professional network
  • Bonus potential related to performance
Full 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.

About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, a predecessor of NTT, started Data Communications business in 1967. NTT, following its privatization in 1985, spun off the Data Communications division as NTT DATA in 1988, which has now become the largest of the IT Services companies headquartered in Japan.
Learn more about NTT DATA Services
Size
151,991 employees
Industry
Technical Services
Founded
1988
NASDAQ
NTTDF
* Ladders Estimates

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