Supply Chain & Engineering – Digital Manufacturing & Operations: Automation Manager

Overview

In this role you will help clients transform manufacturing operations through automation and digital technologies. You will design and implement smart factory solutions, partnering with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and modernization of plant and infrastructure. You will engage in scoping, design, testing and support, shaping offerings and client journeys with a bias for value-led outcomes. This is a hands-on, collaborative position that blends technology, process and people to deliver tangible improvements.

Pay / Benefits

• up to 30 days vacation
• private medical insurance
• charitable leave (3 days per year)
• flexibility and mobility

Responsibilities

• Help clients target and deliver value through digital transformation of factory/plant/infrastructure operations
• Shape, sell and deliver projects, assess current state, identify efficiency opportunities, and contribute to business cases and journey plans
• Design application technology solutions for future operating models and processes
• Use digital technologies to enable future-state business capabilities and drive targeted outcomes
• Develop enduring relationships and provide coaching and career development within Industry X
• Provide insights on industry challenges and technology trends to motivate change
• Contribute to the development of offerings and sales collateral to support origination and execution
• Support the sales process from origination to closing, including proposal shaping and client presentations
• Lead and facilitate client workshops with a human-centered, collaborative approach
• Work across lifecycle from scoping to implementation, testing and support
• Collaborate with technology and consulting colleagues across Manufacturing and Operations domain

Key requirements

• Hands-on process/technology practitioner with design and implementation experience
• Experience in Discrete or Process Manufacturing environments
• Ability to assess strategy, operating vision, imperatives and capabilities
• Knowledge of digital technologies for shop floor operations
• Awareness of end-to-end solution design including integration and security across edge, on-premise and cloud
• Ability to estimate technology and implementation costs and effort using experience and Accenture tools
• Knowledge/experience in Robotics and Automation, MES/MOM, EAM/CMMS, plant automation and control systems, IIoT platforms
• Familiarity with industries such as Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, Consumer goods, Aerospace & Defence
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in shaping and contributing to business cases and offerings

• collaborative
• client-facing engagement
• coaching and mentoring
• Robotics and Automation
• MES/MOM systems
• Enterprise asset management / CMMS

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