- Provide technical leadership for the evolution of OT and Smart Manufacturing capabilities, connecting equipment, automation, and production systems with the enterprise digital architecture.
Responsibilities
- Assess the technological maturity of production lines and plants.
- Identify automation and digitalization opportunities.
- Design OT connectivity standards.
- Coordinate PLC → SCADA/MES → Enterprise integration.
- Lead Ignition-related initiatives.
- Define the automatic data capture strategy.
- Work on OEE, downtime, quality, and traceability initiatives.
- Identify manual processes suitable for automation.
- Evaluate Edge/IIoT solutions.
- Define standards for new production lines.
- Participate in brownfield integration projects.
- Support the Digital Twin strategy.
- Collaborate with Maintenance, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Automation teams.
- Coordinate OT cybersecurity efforts with specialists.
- Identify Line 10 capabilities that can be turned into replicable standards.
Required Experience
- 8+ years in Automation/OT/Manufacturing.
- PLCs and industrial automation.
- SCADA.
- MES/MOM.
- Ignition (desirable).
- OPC-UA/MQTT.
- Historians.
- Industrial networks.
- ISA-95.
- Knowledge of ISA/IEC 62443.
- Edge/IIoT.
- Brownfield experience.