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AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Salary Range: $ - $
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Job Title:
MES Solution Architect

Location: Philadelphia, PA / Houston, TX

Employment Type: Full-time, Hybrid

The selected candidate will be part of AVEVA NA project delivery services group that exclusively works on delivering world‑class Manufacturing Execution Systems and Manufacturing Operations Management solutions based on Model‑Driven MES principles using AVEVA MES to multinational manufacturing customers based in NA. We cater to various manufacturing industries and processes including Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, Discrete Manufacturing, Specialty Chemicals, Metals, Building Products and Life Sciences.

In this role you will be part of AVEVA MES Global Practice and will have opportunities to work with large multinational companies on multi‑site MES project implementations and to become a Subject Matter Expert in various functions and industries where AVEVA MES is used.

• Fully customer‑facing; work with the Project Manager to gather requirements, convert requirements into system design, manage project schedule, lead project team and ensure timely completion of technical development and tasks.
• Apply AVEVA Model‑Driven MES to solve customer issues.
• Help customers achieve their business objectives, improve supply chain, and provide value through continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Interview customers and gather customer requirements; translate information into formal requirements and ensure full alignment with the customer.
• Identify required software system and infrastructure architecture designs; convert gathered formal requirements into a system design that can be easily understood by the customer and the AVEVA project team.
• Work with the Project Manager to provide detailed Work Breakdown Structure for efficient project task management.
• Enforce technical and project execution best practices.
• Manage geographically distributed project team to ensure project tasks are completed in a timely fashion.
• Contribute to development of project tasks; manage project source code and release management efficiently.
• Author system acceptance test criteria based on formal requirements and ensure customer requirements are met 100% in a timely fashion.
• Conduct unit testing and system testing as per the test plan.
• Manage development, quality and production environments efficiently.
• Travel up to 25% to customer sites for requirements gathering workshops, design workshops, training workshops, implementation etc.

• Experience with Production Scheduling and Optimization, Recipe Management, Production Sequencing and Dispatch, Order Execution, Genealogy, Track & Trace, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), ERP Integration, Production Quality, Statistical Process Control and Automation.
• Experience in the manufacturing domain, preferably in MES implementations.
• Strong leadership skills in multi‑site MES project implementations.
• Full software development life cycle experience; customer‑facing project management.

• Business Process Management using Workflows (plus).
• ISA‑88/Batch Control experience (plus).
• Warehouse Management experience (plus).

• Understanding of ISA‑95.
• Expertise in MES Solutions (preferably AVEVA MES).
• Industrial Automation & Networking.
• Solid understanding of SCADA solutions.
• Solid understanding of Integrating MES with ERP, EAM, LIMS and similar plant floor systems.
• IOT, Edge Computing and Cloud Computing experience (plus).

• Database Programming (SQL, T‑SQL).
• C# or VB .NET Programming.
• Web Programming (JavaScript, CSS, JSON, JQuery, Web API, HTML5, REST API).
• Reports & Analytics (SQL Server Reporting Services or Power BI).

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