This position works out of our Lake County, IL / Columbus, OH/ Orlando, FL/ Bend, OR/ Dallas, TX/ Austin, TX or Temecula, CA locations in the Business Solutions & Services Plan/Build organization.

As the MES Application Architect, you?ll have the chance to drive full manufacturing site transformations through software and automation solutions in the IT/OT environment for global manufacturing facilities. This position requires a blend of manufacturing knowledge, technical consulting expertise, and ?hands on? builder/implementation skills. The Application Architect is responsible to design and develop manufacturing recipes through POMS software in the IT/OT environment for facilities across the company. The MES Application Architect will collaboratively develop, troubleshoot, and maintain a standard MES and automation architecture utilizing a strategic approach of industry standards with a focus on building re-useable, scalable solutions.

What You?ll Work On:

?Works with business units, engineering, and infrastructure teams to design and build recipes and application integrations to align with business objectives.

Act as subject matter experience with MES and industrial automation.

?Experience implementing robust manufacturing systems and processes

Strong knowledge of supply chain management or manufacturing processes, having the ability to implement strategies to improve the efficiency of the process

Understanding of integration between MES, PLM, ERP

Experience with equipment integration and shop floor systems

Experience with POMSnet recipe and base data update/creation

Demonstrate end to end understanding of process flow, able to gather requirements, design, develop and build recipes

Support site critical MES enhancement projects, including hardware upgrade, process streamline, architecture upgrade, recipe delivery, and testing coordination.

Follow the Computerized Systems Validation process and Software Lifecycle (SLC) methodology to build and qualify/validate systems.

Assess near-term needs and develop technical solutions; advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities

Partner with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs

Serve as technical expert and leads technical staff to develop, test and implement significant new products, or operational improvements or devise new approaches to problems at the division/business unit

Review, validate & enhance design, conduct performance monitoring and capacity planning; install, test and upgrade releases and associated products.

Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree Preferred / 9+ years experience

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

At least 7 year?s experience with C# or Java software development

Experience with global scale manufacturing systems (POMSNet) development, integration, and support

Strong skills in methods and technologies to support manufacturing data integrations (SQL, Web Services, data mapping, etc.)

Experience with Oracle Pl/SQL, Label printers, Scanners Configuration and support

Ability to apply knowledge and expertise to solve complex technical problems

Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Knowledge and experience with all phases of Software Lifecycle (SLC) in a GXP environment

Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ, authoring validation documents and execution

20% Travel Required