Senior MES Engineer

Position Title: Senior MES Engineer (Confidential Client)
Location: Raleigh, NC | Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent
Compensation

• Salary: $145 - $180K Base
• Bonus: Discretionary bonus (could be 20-35%)

Position Summary

This position requires demonstrated technical proficiency in software design and configuration of MES solutions with integration capabilities to level two and four systems.

The Senior MES Engineer will interact directly with the customer and lead a team of engineers in identifying requirements, evaluating MES platforms, developing specifications, and implementing/testing/commissioning/qualifying MES solutions.

This position is a leadership role within the business unit and requires strong problem-solving ability, well-balanced people skills, an aptitude for business efficiency, and an interest in creating partnerships. The Senior MES Engineer demonstrates success by securing repeat work with both new and existing customers. The client eventually wants to establish an MES office, and this person is expected to lead it.

Work Model: Hybrid in North Carolina (must live in NC), based in Raleigh with 25% travel to client sites. This person will go into the Raleigh office regularly, especially when starting, as a controls engineering team is based there. Over time they will be based in the Raleigh office, their home office, and on client sites.

Physical Demands: Seeing, color perception, hearing, clear speech, dexterity in hands, driving, lifting, ability to mount/dismount equipment, pushing and pulling.

Working Environment: Standard office environment, on-site office environment, diverse industrial environments, frequent use of a personal computer, facsimile/copy machines, and phones.
Primary Functions

• Deliver innovative MES solutions and design standards either self-directedly or as a leader of a team. Act as a solution architect and conceptualize, detail, and implement MES Solutions for industrial processes and machinery that meet customers' requirements. This involves the development of an MES strategy that integrates process knowledge, equipment design, and quality standards with information technology to reduce downtime, elevate the level of regulatory compliance, and introduce efficiency gains through the effective use of available technologies.
• Project management responsibilities: developing project execution plans, work breakdown structures, and associated budgets, task prioritization and scheduling, task ordering, time tracking, and reporting, financial tracking and reporting, early problem identification, conflict management/resolution, leading and supporting a team, and attending project status meetings. Also includes overseeing daily operations and activities of a project(s) up to $1M. This position is often responsible for ensuring the overall profitability of the project.
• Act as technical lead on projects and guide lower-level engineers and technicians. Could also act as Project Manager on smaller projects.
• Business development: bring in business, including going to trade shows and associations.

Must-Haves

• Must be in North Carolina.
• Education: A Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science or the Applied Sciences required.
• Greater than 8-10 years of overall experience in MES (Manufacturing Execution System), with at least 4 years of Life Science MES experience.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.
• Ability to act as a solution architect and conceptualize, detail, and implement MES Solutions for industrial processes and machinery that meet customers' requirements.
• Diverse engineering skillset with the ability to work independently; will act as technical lead on projects and guide lower-level engineers and technicians.
• Familiarity with relevant regulatory requirements of the life science industry such as cGMP, 21 CFR Part 11, etc.
• Coordination experience with multiple systems from controls to ERP (PLC/DCS; Historian technology; reporting systems; relational databases; ERPs) and be able to create interfaces.
• Proven experience with all phases of MES projects including conceptual, basis of design, implementation, testing, start-up, and commissioning in the Life Science industry.
• System Architect - complete white field and brown field experience.
• MES solution deployment experience with but not limited to Werum PAS-X, Sepasoft, or POMS.
• Aptitude for business development - must be able to bring in business (go to trade shows and associations).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience - Greater than 10 years with capabilities in the below areas is preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency with designing and implementing integrated EBR recipes using GAMP5, S88, and S95 standards.
• Understand the manufacturing processes and system configuration and make informed recommendations regarding optimal system configuration.
• Understanding of warehouse and inventory management specifically in a GMP facility.
• Support software and configuration required for external systems interfaces such as DeltaV, SAP, LIMS, PI, and Maximo.
• Strong knowledge of historian technology and reporting systems.
• Experience with relational databases such as SQL, Oracle, etc.
• Strong knowledge of IT/OT networking.
• Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of MS Office products.
• Experience leading a team of engineers/technicians to provide MES solutions.
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Professional references, preferably one from each of the following: a subordinate, a peer, and a manager.
• Highly prefers someone from an integrator, or at least some integrator experience.
• Wants to lead their own office in NC.