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Solutions Design Lead

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Main responsabilities:

🔹 End-to-End Manufacturing Process Expertise

  • Define and validate end-to-end manufacturing processes, including:
    • Production execution, tank, packaging, labeling, and inventory updates
    • Warehouse flows (receiving, put-away, picking, shipping)
    • Traceability across materials, batches, and handling units
  • Ensure processes reflect real operational practices, including:
    • Manual interventions
    • Exceptions (rework, scrap, damaged products)

🔹 MES / MOM Functional Leadership

  • Translate operational needs into clear, implementable functional requirements
  • Support definition of capabilities such as:
    • Real-time production tracking (WIP, scrap, rework)
    • Tank production and inventory
    • Packaging and labeling execution
    • Inventory synchronization and genealogy
  • Ensure alignment and integration with:
    • ERP systems (SAP)
    • Loading / shipping / receiving
    • Quality systems (LIMS)
    • WMS
    • Shopfloor systems (SCADA/PLC)

🔹 S&OP Alignment and Feasibility

  • Bridge planning and execution by ensuring:
    • Production plans are feasible and aligned with plant constraints
    • Supply chain decisions reflect real operational capabilities
  • Support the S&OP cycle:
    • Demand review → Supply review → Reconciliation → Management Business Review

🔹 Plant Engagement & Validation

  • Work closely with plant teams to:
    • Validate process designs on-site
    • Identify gaps between “standard processes” and real execution
    • Adapt solutions to varying plant maturity levels and automation capabilities

🔹 Standardization with Flexibility

  • Contribute to defining:
    • Global process templates
    • Controlled plant-level adaptations
  • Ensure solutions are:
    • Scalable across plants
    • Adapted to local operational realities

🔹 Vendor & Solution Evaluation

  • Participate in vendor selection and solution design:
    • RFI/RFP processes
    • Functional validation workshops
    • Technical demos and fit-for-purpose assessments

Qualifications & Skills

  • 5–10+ years of hands-on manufacturing experience, ideally in Production / plant operations or Packaging or inventory-intensive environments
  • Proven exposure to Manufacturing processes and shopfloor operations and Interaction with MES/MOM or related systems
  • Experience in multi-plant or global environments with high variability
  • Knowledge of MES and ERP (SAP) integration; Traceability and inventory management processes
  • Ideally background in industries such as Mining, materials, chemicals, or process manufacturing

Key Competencies

  • Strong process-oriented thinking (not system-driven)

  • Ability to translate best practices into practical solutions
  • Understanding of end-to-end manufacturing data flows (ERP ↔ MES ↔ LIMS ↔ shopfloor)
  • Excellent stakeholder collaboration across Operations, Supply Chain, IT, and Business teams

What do we offer?

  • Hybrid Work Model: Flexibility to work from home and in the office, helping you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
  • Ticket Restaurant: Enjoy a daily meal allowance to support your well-being.
  • Flexible retribution: Kindergarten & Transport
  • 30 Labor Days of Holidays: Ample time off to relax and recharge.
  • Language Lessons: Access to language lessons to help you grow both personally and professionally.
  • Medical Insurance: 60% company-subsidized medical insurance for employees, with the option to extend coverage to family members at a highly competitive rate.
  • Open and Modern Office Environment: Work in a collaborative, innovative, and comfortable space designed for your success

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