Lead MES/Digital Manufacturing Business Analyst

About the role

This position requires up to 25% travel.

Responsibilities

• Partner with manufacturing, operations, quality, and IT stakeholders to understand current-state processes (including current-state value stream maps) and future-state MES needs;
• Elicit, document, and manage business and functional requirements for Ignition-based MES solutions;
• Translate operational use cases into clear user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria;
• Identify opportunities for standardization and solution-template reuse across plants while balancing site-specific needs, supporting a cohesive product strategy across growth sites;
• Support the configuration and deployment of Ignition MES modules—Production Dispatch & Execution, Production Tracking, Performance Analytics (OEE), Data Collection, Product Definition, Resource Management, Quality Execution, and Inventory Execution;
• Collaborate with technical teams on Ignition Perspective/Vision UI requirements, data modeling and tag structures (UNS), and integration with PLCs, historians, ERP (e.g., SAP, Mapics), and other boundary systems;
• Coordinate use cases and test scenarios with the customer to ensure end-to-end user acceptance testing is complete;
• Support role-based training, super-users/SMEs, go-live (RAID log, hypercare), and post go-live stabilization to drive adoption from Day 1.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in manufacturing, industrial IT, or MES environments;
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, including production execution, OEE and performance metrics, downtime tracking, and quality processes;
• Experience working in IT/OT integrated environments and translating complex shopfloor processes into clear requirements.

Qualifications

• Education level required: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
• Years and Area of Experience Required: 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in manufacturing, industrial IT, or MES environments;
• Technical knowledge: Hands-on knowledge of Inductive Automation Ignition (Perspective and/or Vision) and Ignition MES modules; Understanding of MES concepts and the ISA-95 / Unified Namespace (UNS) data model, including data modeling and tag structures; Familiarity with Kepware / OPC UA connectivity and integration of MES with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle); Exposure to cloud or hybrid architectures and shopfloor/edge connectivity; Experience in multi-site or global manufacturing programs; background in continuous improvement or Lean manufacturing preferred.

Skills

• Soft skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; works regularly with business analysts, project managers, architects, developers, and plant/operations teams; Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills; able to lead workshops and influence across multiple plants and stakeholders; Self-motivated, team-oriented, and able to work under pressure to tight deadlines across concurrent site deployments.

Pay

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97,000 - $143,000 a year.

Schedule

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Benefits

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