Senior Operations Technology Specialist

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.
At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

Position Summary As a Senior Operations Technology Specialist, you will be a key technology partner responsible for maintaining and enhancing the reliability, performance, and security of the site's computing environment, including factory floor and back-office hardware, software, networks, servers, and communication systems. Serving as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert, you will collaborate with site leadership, operational teams, and the broader Market ITC Network to support business objectives, drive continuous improvement, and deliver innovative technology solutions.

Beyond your assigned site, you will contribute to cross-site initiatives, technology deployments, and market-level priorities, leveraging your expertise to share best practices, influence strategic projects, and help shape the future of operational technology across the organization.
Key Responsibilties

• Sustain an in-depth working knowledge of the production process within the base location and how it relates to the underlying IT systems. Expected to translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• On a largely autonomous basis, maintain and contribute to continuous improvement of factory floor solutions to positively impact the objectives of the base location operation and deliver value back to business.
• Maintain technical expertise to support, guide, troubleshoot, and coordinate the installation, configuration, administration, optimization, and resolution of issues across in-house computing hardware, software, database, network, communication, and multimedia systems.
• Provide guidance and support to ensure adherence to company requirements related to data backup, disaster recovery, software licensing, compliance, security, and approved standards and policies.
• Work with all levels of factory personnel to provide service, direction, on the correct process to resolve internal factory request related to IT / OT systems.
• Support the coordination, collaboration, and communications with key stakeholders related to IT solution issues/outages impacting production processes through resolution and problem management.
• Provide demand‑based off hours technical support in alignment with factory off‑hours support requirements.
• Partner with Factory Leadership Team and local engineers to plan and coordinate local implementation of new and enhanced factory software.
• Develop and maintain technical expertise related to base location systems and the assigned Sr. Specialist track, while building broader FFIT capabilities within the specialty area to support cross‑site initiatives, project delivery, and functional leadership.
• Utilize and promote Agile ways of working, particularly within the area of functional specialty.
• Enhance IT operational performance by driving…