
Principal, Digital Manufacturing Solutions
- Oshkosh, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identify high-impact opportunities to deploy AI, automation, machine learning, robotics, digital twins, and IIoT across manufacturing operations and distribution centers. Design and implement solutions.
- Design, deliver and pilot solutions that capture real-time shop floor data and use AI to deliver continuous insight improvements to quality, safety, productivity, and maintenance.
- Scale existing solutions to top revenue factories such as predictive maintenance to prevent downtime, AI vision inspection to improve quality, and pick to light to improve accuracy and picking speed.
- Assist with standardizing MES across all three business segments and piloting MES AI capabilities.
- Expand location tracking for asset, material, parts, and work in progress.
- Build integrated workflows between OT systems (PLC, SCADA, MES) and IT platforms (ERP, PLM, BI tools).
- Lead cross-functional project teams from concept through full deployment including scope definition, vendor engagement, finance, integration, testing, and change management.
- Provide technical support for solutions until productionized.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and hands-on problem solving.
- Recognized as a strong technical and financial modeling architect within the organization.
- Defines best practices standards and ensures adherence to them.
- Optimize the technical application to business processes and expand to drive segment/function adoption.
- Develops measurement criteria to evaluate programs and projects, reviews estimate on technical aspect of project.
- Develops the value, financial, scope and risk criteria on projects while building consensus with cross segment OT/IT leaders.
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related technical field with ten (10) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Seven (7) years of experience in automotive or equipment manufacturing, with at least 3 years focused on digital transformation or smart manufacturing initiatives.
- Proven success deploying AI, automation, or IoT technologies in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environments.
- Deep understanding of manufacturing operations including scheduling, fabrication, paint, assembly, shop floor machines, maintenance and processes.
- Deep understanding of OT/IT architecture, MES, ERP, and factory automation systems.
- Strong executive presence and highly influential.
- Experience providing business and technical leadership/guidance without direct authority
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
- Certifications in Industry 4.0, data science, Python, Java Script, Jython.
- Experience with platforms such as Siemens, Rockwell, Ignition, Boomi, Highbyte or PTC ThingWorx.
- Working knowledge of cloud services (Azure/AWS) and edge computing solutions.
- Familiarity with standards like ISA-95, MQTT, OPC-UA.
- Previous experience at a fortune 500 company.