Manager, Senior MES Engineer

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Position Summary

Lead digitization of manufacturing process in collaboration with business functions and IT partners. Manage MES and surrounding system’s life cycle from plan, build to retirement. It is also responsible for MES administration, recipe management, and support as well as surrounding systems.

Key Responsibilities

Manage operations:

• Establish solid relationships with business teams and work with them to build and implement digitization strategy in manufacturing process area.
• Lead and manage system implementation project as a IT business partner to make sure the deliverables are meeting intended use and released as planned.
• Maintain and support manufacturing systems throughout the lifecycle by:

• Coordinating activities with internal and external IT partners such as global GPS IT, Emerson, Accenture, HCL, BT, and workplace services, etc.
• Monitoring the systems are in validated state and if the changes deviate from it, work with change management and CSV teams to handle their risks appropriately.
• Occasionally assessing support activities are perceived with satisfaction from business.

• Administrate MES system environments in user access management, its periodic review, and security configuration.

Manage MES recipe in the following responsibilities:

• Lead recipe delivery process.
• Support global recipe management strategy to maximize reuse of recipes and/or recipe segments across sites.
• Build recipes that are designed around simplicity, flexibility, and cost effectiveness.
• Partner with MS&T and Process Robustness team to configure recipes in support of analytics.

Manage people (consultants and partners to begin with):

• Communicates continuously site strategies and project objectives.
• Delivers results and drives for continuous improvement. Has high performance expectations and holds others accountable for results. Acts with a sense of urgency.
• Demonstrates strong team leadership, able to work with a wide variety of people.
• Lead and manage change initiatives that supports IT technology and process changes.
• Broker IT business solutions that achieves site needs and links to global strategies, solutions, practices, and systems where appropriate.

Manage finance:

• Effectively manages the given budgetary targets in his/her scope are met.
• Justifies proposals for additional expenditure.
• Achieves effective financial control through management of project scope, estimating, effective use of SAP and budget control tools, risk management and project close out.
• Understanding of financial management as it relates to capital and expense spending.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 2 years’ direct experience of designing, building, deploying, and supporting automation and execution systems (Syncade, PI Data historian, etc.) in regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong domain expertise in the application of IT to manufacturing, including a broad understanding of processes and how they are supported by IT tools and systems.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory landscape and demonstrated experience with software validation.
• Proven track record of successful IT/automation project delivery.
• Substantial managerial experience and well developed social and technical skills.
• Ability to work across global sites and cultures.
• Fluent in Japanese and English – verbal and written communications.
• A minimum of 2-3 years IT experience supporting manufacturing plants is preferred (ideally 3-5 years). In-depth knowledge of regulatory compliance is required.

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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
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On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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