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.

Lead SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance and Controlling implementations for a global manufacturing business. Configure General Ledger, payables, receivables, asset accounting, financial close, cost centers, profit centers, and product costing. Translate business requirements into solution designs, integrate SAP modules, conduct workshops and training, support testing and go-live, resolve complex issues, and drive continuous improvement.

Owns the global SAP ERP roadmap for discrete manufacturing operations, leads functional and technical consultants, and oversees implementations, optimization, integration, support, training, and vendor relationships. Partners with manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and executive stakeholders to standardize processes, improve efficiency, and deliver SAP projects on time and budget. The role requires extensive SAP implementation and leadership experience, knowledge of core manufacturing and finance modules, and experience with global projects and SAP S/4HANA.

Own SAP S/4HANA Cloud master data solution design, configuration, governance, and implementation. Configure material, customer, supplier, business partner, and financial master data across MM, SD, FI, and EWM. Translate business requirements into functional specifications, lead workshops, support testing and training, resolve complex issues, provide post-go-live support, and drive continuous improvement using SAP Activate and Agile delivery.

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.

Owns global deployment operations for hardware and software systems, including shipment, installation, support, and return. Coordinates engineering, growth, and technical operations teams; develops deployment plans; communicates with leaders and government customers; leads operations and logistics staff; and improves processes using JIRA, NetSuite, and Slack.

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.