Industry Consulting Manager - Manufacturing SME (Remote, PA, US)

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. Originally posted on Himalayas