MES Functional Senior Consultant

MES Functional Senior Consultant

We are a team of strategic advisors, architects, and implementers who drive business transformations. Our diverse talent energizes clients' business functions and technology to maximize value in Supply Chain enhancing their ability to fulfill their growth and efficiency ambitions. Imagine working with world-class supply network capabilities like Smart Factory, Strategy & Innovation, Supply Chain Responsiveness, Sourcing & Procurement, or Product Development & Operations!

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? Join our US Supply Chain & Network Operations Offering, where you'll deliver transformational solutions using operational expertise, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry-specific hybrid solutions. Don't miss the chance to be part of a team that provides exceptional client value while advancing your professional journey. Apply now and become a vital part of our innovative and dynamic workforce!

Recruiting for this role ends on 7/31/26.

Our team helps clients transform their value chains into competitive advantages. We drive efficiency, improve flexibility, and increase responsiveness through proactive insights and decision‑making. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions that bring world‑class supply network and operational capabilities to our clients. We provide operational know‑how, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry‑specific hybrid solutions to deliver unprecedented client value. Additionally, we improve operations, product, and material flow across the breadth of the value chain and create greater supply network synergy and value.

You will work closely with operations leaders, plant managers, and IT teams to design and implement solutions that enhance production efficiency, quality, visibility, and traceability across the manufacturing value chain.

We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Functional Consultant with strong shop floor and operations expertise to support digital transformation initiatives across industrial clients. This role emphasizes deep understanding of manufacturing processes, operations, and performance improvement, with manufacturing execution system (MES) and related technologies serving as key tools to enable those outcomes.

Practitioners will participate in supply chain and manufacturing process transformation working in teams to identify business requirements, draft functional designs and specifications, write and perform test scripts & plans, support technical development analysts, and conduct overarching program management activities.

• Support data‑driven decision‑making through dashboards and insights
• Contribute to overall project delivery, timelines, and client communication
• Translate manufacturing needs into clear business and functional requirements
• Collaborate with technical resources to translate functional requirements to techno-functional specifications
• Define use cases such as work order execution, electronic batch records, genealogy/traceability, material movements, and constraint & non-conformance management
• Support supply chain and shop floor transformation initiatives, including digitization and operational excellence programs
• Define supply chain and production operations key performance indicators
• Collaborate with technical teams on system configuration and integration with PLM, ERP, & MES, automation systems, and data platforms
• Ensure alignment between business processes and system capabilities
• Participate in testing, deployment, and hypercare activities
• Support shoulder‑to‑shoulder change management, user adoption, and training

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, process improvement, or consulting
• Experience in end‑to‑end manufacturing processes (production, quality, maintenance, inventory)
• 2+ years of experience in supply chain processes (sourcing & procurement, logistics, material handling & movement)
• 2+ years of experience working in or with plant environments (discrete or process manufacturing)
• Team lead…