Product Owner, Enterprise Manufacturing Systems

We are seeking a Product Owner Enterprise Manufacturing Systems to lead the enterprise strategy and delivery of manufacturing systems that enable connected data-driven operations across our manufacturing network. This Senior Manager serves as the enterprise owner and integration leader for manufacturing systems that connect physical manufacturing operations to business processes analytics and digital transformation outcomes. This role translates plant needs and Digital Manufacturing strategy into practical capabilities that improve execution visibility traceability yield downtime management quality throughput and data-driven performance management. This role will lead and develop a high-performing team of technology professionals by fostering a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate brings strong manufacturing systems expertise operational credibility cross-functional leadership and the ability to partner across controls engineering operations IT cybersecurity and analytics to execute the Digital Manufacturing strategy.

Key Responsibilities in this role will include:

1. Enterprise Manufacturing Systems Strategy and Roadmap

Own and maintain the enterprise roadmap for ERP manufacturing capabilities plant-floor data collection historians integration platforms and related digital manufacturing solutions.

Translate Digital Manufacturing strategy into scalable system capabilities deployment plans standards and governance practices.

Define where capabilities should reside across ERP MES SCADA historian edge integration enterprise data platform and analytics layers.

Rationalize legacy or redundant manufacturing applications and drive standardization across sites where appropriate.

Prioritize investments based on business value risk reduction operational readiness technical feasibility and scalability.

2. ERP Manufacturing Process Integration

Represent manufacturing needs in ERP process design including process orders bills of material recipes routings confirmations goods issue goods receipt inventory movements batch management and traceability.

Partner with Operations and SC Engineering teams to define how ERP manufacturing functionality should interact with MES SCADA historians warehouse systems quality systems and data platforms.

Improve manufacturing master data quality and governance required for digital execution and analytics.

Support ERP transformation programs by ensuring plant-level execution needs are understood and incorporated into end-to-end designs.

3. Plant-Floor Data Collection and OT/IT Integration

Define strategy and standards for collecting data from PLCs SCADA historians sensors equipment systems operator inputs lab systems and other manufacturing sources.

Ensure plant-floor data is contextualized with production orders materials assets lines shifts batches downtime events quality results and operational states.

Partner closely with Controls Engineering to align on tag standards asset hierarchy historian strategy connectivity patterns data ownership and operational reliability.

Partner with Technology teams to establish secure scalable OT/IT integration patterns using appropriate mechanisms such as historians OPC MQTT APIs edge platforms or middleware.

Partner with Manufacturing Analytics to ensure systems produce accurate contextualized analytics-ready data for reporting data engineering data science and visualization.

Lead cross-site implementation programs including requirements solution design testing deployment planning training change management hypercare and support transition.

Establish governance forums intake processes prioritization methods decision rights and system lifecycle management practices.

Build strong partnerships with plant leadership operators supervisors quality maintenance engineering supply chain IT and external vendors.

Ensure systems comply with cybersecurity access control business continuity data governance and enterprise architecture requirements.

Build and lead a capable team of software engineers business analysts implementation resources and platform support partners.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems Operations Management or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

8 or more years of experience in digital manufacturing manufacturing execution systems supply chain technology or related manufacturing roles.

Experience leading cross-functional supply chain technology programs across multiple sites or business units.

Strong understanding of manufacturing operations production execution material flow quality processes traceability yield downtime and operational performance metrics.

Experience partnering with controls engineering plant operations IT cybersecurity enterprise architecture analytics and external vendors.

Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable technology capabilities and practical implementation plans.

Experience serving as a product or capability owner for digital systems including roadmap ownership backlog prioritization stakeholder alignment value realization and governance of manufacturing technology products.

Proven people leadership stakeholder management vendor management and program delivery capability.

Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience enabling manufacturing data into Snowflake or other enterprise data platforms.

Familiarity with data engineering concepts manufacturing analytics Power BI or Tableau and common manufacturing data models.

Understanding of OT cybersecurity network segmentation access control disaster recovery and support models for manufacturing environments.

Experience building governance capability models templates standards and deployment playbooks across a manufacturing network.

Salary Range: $142160 - $213240. In most cases candidates offered employment expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges

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