The Role
Owns enterprise-wide standardization and governance of industrial automation products across global manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include managing product footprints, metadata, taxonomies, lifecycle information, requirements, documentation, and data semantics. The role partners with Product Management, Engineering, IT/OT, Manufacturing, and OEM vendors; builds governance processes; maintains Confluence and SharePoint knowledge repositories; and promotes reusable standards and communities of practice.
Summary Generated by Built In
This is a remote position.
We are looking for an experienced Product Steward IT/OT Digital Manufacturing to support a global pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. The role focuses on standardizing and governing digital manufacturing and industrial automation products across multiple manufacturing sites.
The consultant will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, IT/OT teams, and external vendors to ensure that automation and digital manufacturing solutions are documented, standardized, and consistently adopted across the organization.
This is not a pure hands-on automation engineering role. The position sits at the intersection of OT, industrial automation, manufacturing systems, product governance, data stewardship, and process standardization.
- Act as Product Steward for IT/OT and Digital Manufacturing products used across global manufacturing sites.
- Support governance, standardization, and lifecycle management of industrial automation and manufacturing technology products.
- Work with stakeholders to define and maintain product standards, requirements, documentation, and best practices.
- Translate manufacturing, engineering, and site requirements into structured product documentation and reusable standards.
- Support standardization of automation platforms, industrial control environments, data structures, naming conventions, and operational processes.
- Maintain product guides, knowledge base content, standards documentation, decision logs, and process documentation.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering teams, site representatives, OEMs, vendors, and Quality stakeholders.
- Support alignment across IT, OT, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and external delivery teams.
- Facilitate workshops, requirement-gathering sessions, technical reviews, and stakeholder alignment meetings.
- Identify gaps in existing documentation, ownership, processes, and site adoption.
- Support continuous improvement of product governance, documentation quality, and cross-site standardization.
- Ensure documentation and processes are suitable for regulated pharmaceutical / GxP environments.
- Help drive consistent implementation of IT/OT and digital manufacturing capabilities across sites.
Requirements
- Strong experience in Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) environments.
- Good understanding of industrial automation platforms, especially Siemens and/or Rockwell Automation.
- Experience with PLC, SCADA, HMI, BMS, industrial automation systems, or shopfloor production platforms.
- Experience in Digital Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, manufacturing digitalization, or smart factory initiatives.
- Experience working in or with pharmaceutical, regulated, GMP/GxP, or highly controlled manufacturing environments.
- Strong background in product governance, process standardization, requirements documentation, and stakeholder alignment.
- Ability to work between technical teams and business/manufacturing stakeholders.
- Experience creating or maintaining structured documentation, product guides, standards, SOPs, knowledge bases, Confluence or SharePoint pages.
- Strong facilitation, communication, problem-solving, and ownership skills.
- Ability to work in a complex global matrix organization.
- Operational Technology / OT
- Industrial Control Systems / ICS
- Siemens automation platforms
- Rockwell Automation platforms
- PLC / SCADA / HMI
- Building Management Systems / Building Automation / BMS
- Digital Manufacturing
- Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
- Manufacturing systems / shopfloor platforms
- Data stewardship / data standardization
- Product governance
- Process standardization
- Requirements management
- Technical and process documentation
- GxP / GMP / CSV awareness
- Confluence / SharePoint / knowledge management
- Stakeholder management across IT, OT, Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality
- Experience with Siemens Desigo CC or similar BMS / building automation platforms.
- Experience with industrial data models, asset models, equipment hierarchy, naming conventions or ISA-95 principles.
- Experience with global manufacturing programs or multi-site standardization.
- Experience with vendor/OEM coordination.
- Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotech, life sciences, FMCG, chemical, or other regulated production environments.
Benefits
- Location: EU
- Contract Type: Freelance / Contract
- Start date: September,/October 2026
- Time Allocation: 40 hours/week
- Global Pharmaceutical Company in Prague
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Stewardship, Product Management, or related roles
- Hands-on experience working in IT/OT environments
- Experience with industrial automation technologies
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and product governance
- Experience with requirements gathering, documentation, and standardization
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
- Experience with Confluence and SharePoint
- Excellent analytical and documentation skills
- Experience with Siemens Automation Stack
- Experience with Rockwell Automation Stack
- Experience with Building Automation Systems
- Experience with Siemens Desigo CC
- Experience with product footprints, product lifecycle management, product standardization, data stewardship, data semantics, metadata management, and product documentation
- Experience with Product Guides, knowledge management, and documentation standards
- Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry experience
- Manufacturing or industrial production experience
- Experience with Master Data Management
- Understanding of industrial automation architecture
- Experience working with global engineering organizations
- Familiarity with ISA-95, ISA-88, or similar industrial standards
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futureproof s.r.o. is a Czech consulting and staffing firm focused on data, analytics, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure. It provides contract and permanent staffing, team augmentation, time-and-material resources, and specialist or lead placements, while also offering expert consulting through a network of architects and project leaders. The company emphasizes niche technical expertise, trusted relationships, continuous learning, and long-term value for clients.
