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Job Title: MES Solution Architect

Location: Philadelphia, PA / Houston, TX

Employment Type: Full-time, Hybrid

The selected candidate will be part of AVEVA NA project delivery services group that exclusively works on delivering world class Manufacturing Execution Systems and Manufacturing Operations Management solutions based on Model Driven MES principles using AVEVA MES to multinational manufacturing customers based in NA. We cater to various manufacturing industries and processes including Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, Discrete Manufacturing, Specialty Chemicals, Metals, Building Products and Life Sciences.

In this role you will be part of AVEVA MES Global Practice and will have opportunities to work with large multi-national companies on multi-site MES project implementations and will have opportunities to become Subject Matter Expert in various functions and industries where AVEVA MES is used. You will be a part of the large global MES delivery team where you will have opportunities to network, collaborate and hone your MES skills.

We are looking for a senior MES Project Engineer with a Degree in Engineering (Computer Science/Information Technology preferred) with 7-10 years of experience in building MES solutions with at least 3 years of experience demonstrating strong leadership skills in multi-site MES project implementations. The right candidate will have full software development life cycle experience. In this role you will be fully customer-facing and will be working along with the Project Manager to gather requirements, convert requirements into system design, manage project schedule, lead project team and ensure timely completion of technical development and tasks.

The right candidate will have experience with Production Scheduling and Optimization, Recipe Management, Production Sequencing and Dispatch, Order Execution, Genealogy, Track & Trace, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), ERP Integration, Production Quality, Statistical Process Control and Automation.

Any experience with Business Process Management using Workflows is a plus.

Any ISA-88/Batch Control experience is a plus.

Any Warehouse Management experience is a plus.

Typical day to day tasks includes the following –

• Application of AVEVA Model Driven MES to solve customer issues.
• Help customers achieve their business objectives, improve supply chain for customers and provide value through various continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Interview customers and gather customer requirements.
• Translate information into formal requirements and ensure full alignment with the customer.
• Identify required software system and infrastructure architecture designs.
• Convert gathered formal requirements into a system design that can be easily understood by the customer as well as the AVEVA project team.
• Work with the Project Manager to provide detailed Work Breakdown Structure for efficient project task management.
• Enforce technical and project execution best practices.
• Manage geographically distributed project team to ensure project tasks are getting completed in a timely fashion.
• Contribute to development of project tasks.
• Manage project source code and release management efficiently.
• Author system acceptance test criteria based on formal requirements and ensure customer requirements are met 100% in a timely fashion.
• Conduct unit testing and system testing as per the test plan.
• Manage development, quality…