Jobs at VDS Consulting Group

Design and govern IT/OT integration architecture connecting CAD, PLM, MES, SCADA, historians, ERP, and business systems. Define unified plant data models, build APIs and event-streaming pipelines, establish data governance and integration standards, and review vendor and integrator designs. The role requires substantial software or integration architecture experience, manufacturing expertise, industrial protocols, enterprise systems integration, and cloud architecture knowledge.

Build industrial data science solutions using sensor, PLC, historian, and MES data. Develop predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, remaining-useful-life, quality, and yield models. Deploy models to edge or cloud, create operator dashboards, and collaborate with plant engineers to refine insights and improve factory processes.

Design and assess resilient industrial plant networks for manufacturing environments. Conduct site surveys, RF studies, and network assessments; architect private 5G/LTE, industrial Ethernet, and Wi-Fi mesh solutions; specify segmentation, redundancy, and low-latency control paths; oversee installation with client and subcontractor teams; validate performance; and deliver network documentation and runbooks.

Conduct OT asset inventories, risk assessments, and IEC 62443/NIST CSF gap analyses. Design zero-trust architectures, zones, conduits, DMZs, and IT/OT firewall rules. Implement secure vendor and engineer remote access, deploy OT monitoring tools, develop incident response playbooks, and train plant staff while protecting live industrial systems.

Designs and installs industrial IoT data layers for legacy machinery. Responsibilities include assessing equipment, designing sensor, PLC, and edge architectures, integrating PLC/SCADA systems, deploying gateways, installing industrial sensors, configuring device-to-cloud protocols, and producing as-built drawings, I/O lists, and commissioning reports. The role requires hands-on brownfield automation integration experience and work on live production floors.

Leads a 150-person sustainment data organization supporting global aircraft fleets. Sets data strategy, oversees data engineering, analytics, modeling, business intelligence, and reporting teams, drives digital modernization and technology investments, briefs executives and customers, and develops technical leaders. Requires extensive data, analytics, or IT experience, significant management experience, and familiarity with large-scale data platforms and BI tools.

Leads an applied research organization focused on transitioning early-stage technologies into fieldable missile and defense products. Sets research strategy and investment plans, manages multidisciplinary engineering teams, supports government-funded research capture and execution, transitions technologies into product programs, and builds partnerships with government laboratories, universities, and industry.

Leads subcontract and supplier management for major aircraft production and development programs. Develops enterprise-aligned sourcing strategies, oversees supplier cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance, drives category management and supplier development, manages talent and succession planning, and reports supply-base risks and performance to executives.

Leads program finance for defense program portfolios, including budgeting, forecasting, estimates at completion, variance analysis, and cost, profit, and cash advisory. Manages finance managers and analysts while ensuring compliance with Cost Accounting Standards and earned value management requirements. Requires extensive program or government contract finance experience, team leadership, and proficiency with EVMS, CAS, and SAP.

Leads procurement engineers supporting supplier selection, part qualification, technical supplier issue resolution, cost reduction, and obsolescence management. Requires engineering expertise, aerospace or supply chain experience, and team leadership.

Build and operate end-to-end machine learning platforms for maritime defense manufacturing. Responsibilities include training and deployment, model serving across cloud, edge, and factory environments, AI workflow development with human review, PLM/MES/ERP integration, governance, drift monitoring, and on-call support.

Build and operate machine-learning training and dataset infrastructure for autonomous perception systems. Responsibilities include multi-sensor data indexing, developer tools and SDKs, frontier-model applications for data curation and synthetic data, training-job and evaluation tracking, and model versioning. The role requires strong Python, distributed training experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch, and Kubernetes-based workflow orchestration. Rust, experiment tracking, and production-scale model deployment are additional advantages.

Leads supply chain strategy for scaling defense hardware programs, including industrial-capacity planning, sourcing, supplier performance, continuity, quality, cost, and risk reduction. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, business development, and supply chain leaders; manages buyers, planners, and sourcing engineers; establishes KPIs; and supports ERP and supplier-portal implementations.

Build and lead a product sourcing engineering and subcontract management team for high-rate air-vehicle production. Establish supply strategies for continuity, quality, cost, and scale; negotiate supplier agreements; resolve cross-functional trade-offs; reduce bill-of-materials complexity and supplier count; and manage capital spending, new product introduction, and tariff exposure.

Leads supplier industrialization for machined and fabricated mechanical parts, moving products from prototype through full-rate production. Responsibilities include qualifying suppliers, establishing tooling and production lines, ramping capacity, conducting statistical process control reviews, and resolving corrective actions. The role also includes demand and supply planning, inventory management, sales and operations planning, forecast alignment, and maintaining MRP data for defense product lines.

Develops and maintains production test processes for RF and microwave components. Responsibilities include product transfers, test fixture and board design, RF troubleshooting, SMT process optimization, test data analysis, root-cause investigation, automation, documentation, and technician training. The role supports high-volume electronics manufacturing and requires hands-on use of RF test equipment, PCB troubleshooting, and RF performance analysis.

Own the enterprise SAP solution architecture and roadmap, leading S/4HANA, migration, and RISE with SAP initiatives. Integrate SAP across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and sales while establishing architecture governance, standards, and best practices. Evaluate SAP and third-party capabilities, oversee SAP and non-SAP integrations, guide technical and functional teams, and advise executive stakeholders on strategic recommendations and trade-offs.

Evaluates target-company IT, OT, applications, cybersecurity, licenses, regulatory compliance, technical debt, and integration risks during M&A due diligence. Estimates carve-out costs, capex, and Day 1 readiness requirements, then leads post-close systems integration, cybersecurity remediation, and smart-factory transformation. The role requires substantial IT or cybersecurity leadership experience, manufacturing systems knowledge, M&A or carve-out experience, and the ability to translate technical risks into financial and deal recommendations.

Conduct financial due diligence on target companies by analyzing quality of earnings, cash flow, working capital, debt, liabilities, accounting accuracy, and projections. Support valuation, purchase agreements, and lender packages, then lead post-merger finance integration, including cash forecasting, KPI reporting, and exit-ready financial operations. The role offers an operating partner pathway toward interim CFO or finance leadership responsibilities.

Conduct legal due diligence for acquisitions by reviewing contracts, litigation, governance, employment obligations, intellectual property, trade compliance, and regulatory matters. Identify risks affecting deal value and translate findings into transaction protections with outside counsel. After closing, lead contract novation, entity cleanup, compliance programs, and governance processes as an interim general counsel or operating partner.