MES Solution Architect

Position Overview:

As a MES Solution Architect at R Systems, you will play a key role in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, developing, and deploying high-quality applications. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will transform business requirements into efficient, scalable, and robust solutions, ensuring that our software products meet the highest standards of quality and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide analysis, counsel, and direction to management and personnel of operating units to analyse problems and develop solutions, as well as assure efficient operation of existing systems. Maintain an understanding of manufacturing processes and the implications of computer systems on these processes.
• Prepare and conduct project review meetings and management presentations including general design review, project scheduling, test plan, system and program tactics and methods, system controls, procedures, systems documentation, and system implementation plan.
• Prepare and publish systems project designs, plans and status reports. Comply with systems development methodology, standards, procedures, guidelines, priorities, and schedules.
• Develop high-level system specifications. Assist in developing system documentation. Advise on user procedures. Assist in the preparation of the general test plan. Coordinate system tests.
• Participate in educational programs and professional societies involving supervisory skills, computing technology and systems methodologies. Seek ways to expand business knowledge.
• Conduct educational programs involving company personnel relating to computing technology and specific projects.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Create and maintain architecture design and standards that are simply explained and well understood, on both the factory floor and leadership.
• Enable an efficient and effective organization that removes barriers between traditional OT and IT roles
• Be the architecture partner with plants and the Corporate IT organization to develop effective, low cost and highly secure smart manufacturing systems
• Provide strategic direction, roadmap and standards within the area of responsibility
• Align business strategies with IT architecture
• Be the solution specifier, subject matter expert and keeper of the standards for automation solutions, manufacturing software and hardware.
• Life cycle management of IT architecture for the plant and the enterprise
• Stay updated on new solutions and technologies, be innovative and bring new technology solutions to the business
• Manage business relationships with local IT and controls engineers, external service providers, suppliers and partners.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology.

Preferred Skills:

• Architect to be responsible for the solution architecture, functional design, testing, deployment and support of Smart Factory IT applications, which will also include partnering with internal teams and vendors for technical development.
• Utilize solutions and platforms, as well as the continuous exploration of evolving Smart Factory technologies.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong IT application background along with experience developing and implementing solutions to support manufacturing process requirements.
• The candidate should have experience with the implementation and integration of enterprise-level systems such as MES, and ERP.
• The candidate should have an understanding of IT infrastructure including networking, servers and hardware (end-user) devices used in manufacturing. The candidate should also have an understanding of cyber security.

General Objective:

Technical advisor of the design, implementation and maintenance of Smart Factory systems. Prepare architecture design materials and be capable of presenting them to upper management. Develop and monitor policies, procedures, and standards documents.

Provide on-call escalation support of systems. Establish service-level agreements with customers.

Establish and review capacity, utilization and other performance. Capable of participating in multiple concurrent development projects.

Collaborates directly with all management levels and project leaders to determine system objectives and solutions.

Provides updates to the Smart Factory COE.

May act as a mentor. Provides technical direction to IT staff in the performance of assigned projects.