MES & Industrial Automation Engineer; Remote

Job Description:

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges.

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At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

As an MES & Industrial Automation Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. You will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and deploying manufacturing system integration and automation solutions across Solventum's manufacturing network. Working closely with manufacturing sites, engineering teams, and digital technology teams, you will help implement standardized solutions connecting Critical Manufacturing MES, Ignition, PLCs, and enterprise systems to support manufacturing operations, quality, compliance, and operational efficiency.

• Designing, developing, and supporting integrations between Critical Manufacturing MES, Ignition, PLCs, SAP, and other manufacturing systems.
• Partnering with manufacturing sites to gather requirements, define solutions, and implement standardized automation and manufacturing execution capabilities.
• Developing and deploying machine connectivity, workflow automation, data collection, and equipment integration solutions using industrial automation and software development best practices.
• Providing technical leadership for manufacturing systems projects, including solution design, vendor and contractor coordination, validation support, and deployment activities.
• Defining and maintaining standards, templates, and best practices for MES, industrial automation, and manufacturing system integration.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher in an engineering discipline, Computer Science, or Information Systems (completed and verified prior to start) AND three (3) years of experience implementing or supporting manufacturing systems, industrial automation solutions, and/or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, Computer Science, or Information Systems (completed and verified prior to start) AND five (5) years of experience implementing or supporting manufacturing systems, industrial automation solutions, and/or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) platforms.
• High School Diploma/GED AND nine (9) years of experience implementing or supporting manufacturing systems, industrial automation solutions, and/or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)…