MES Functional Consultant

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility -our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how thework we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

The Senior Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Functional Consultant is a pivotal role in defining and developing the strategy and implementations for our Life Science clients' manufacturing information systems. The candidate will become intimate with our FactoryTalk PharmaSuite technology and tailor its implementation into our clients' environments to provide more reliable and agile manufacturing in such a critically important industry.

If you are interested in joining a rapidly growing team committed to strengthen our positive and supportive culture, you can enjoy the benefits but also be a part of defining our identity as we continue to expand:

• Our team approach is bringing stellar individuals together that seek a diverse and inclusive workplace doing great work together.

• We strive to achieve a balanced workday producing exceptional results and supporting each other while doing it.

• Depending on the role we offer a flexible workplace that can help you achieve success at work and at home via localized client work, mostly remote with occasional on-site visits for people/process/project collaboration, and fully remote positions.

• Our projects tend to have longer time horizons, but we have staffing models that can keep you rooted or keep you moving depending on your career goals via long-term cadenced projects or rotational assignments.

This role reports to the Functional Consulting Team Lead and is located remotely or near our long-term client locations.

What you will do

• Lead end user manufacturing process discussions and process mapping by understanding the pharmaceutical manufacturing process in primary/secondary manufacturing of pharmaceutical products, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), Biopharmaceutical, Medical Devices, and like life sciences manufacturing environments

• Lead workshops to analyze the client's user requirements and design the appropriate solution that aligns to client needs and achieve ANSI/ISA-88 standards

• Build partnerships at a functional requirement level with client counterparts

• Build migration strategies for clients to move from previous MES systems or from paper batch records into the PharmaSuite technology

• Perform fit-gap-analysis and configure functional aspects and solution designs for commercial proposals and into solution delivery

• Define the integration strategy of the MES application to higher level business systems (such as Enterprise Resource Planning systems like SAP), other information systems (such as Laboratory Information Management Systems), and control level systems (such as Distributed Control Systems like PlantPAX or DeltaV)

• Document/review system solution architecture design

• Write the Functional Design Specification to define what functions fit the standard application framework and what custom developed application code is required for site-specific business purposes

• Identify technical & commercial risks during design phase

• Author/review/execute project MES system validation plan (such as informal testing, authoring integration test protocols, formal testing)

• Collaborate with the technical development team to define the development activities in a product feature backlog using tools such as JIRA to successfully manage the development of client-specific application code

• Manage team expectations for the use of application code in Master Batch Records (product manufacturing recipes) for internal counterparts or client staff to build the recipes specific to their manufactured goods

• Facilitation, conflict management, and consensus building with clients

• Act as a mentor to technical & functional team

• Drive new business growth and client success by participating in presales meeting

• Provide guidance on GAMP, GxP, FDA guidelines and best practices

Basic qualifications - You Will Have

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field

• Willing and able to travel and work at client sites. Travel can vary on assignment from 0% to 100% but can average 30%

• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening

Preferred qualifications - You may also have

• 15+ years (approx.) of professional functional/technical experience related to software development & systems design and deployment

• A bachelor's degree in a technical field closely related to information technology such as mathematics, engineering, computer science, or information systems

• A master's degree or above is preferred

• Significant experience with FactoryTalk PharmaSuite or other MES applications in life sciences

What We Offer:

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at +1 (844) 404-7247.