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Product Manager MES/WMS
As an international company with European roots (HQ in Kortrijk, Belgium), Barco has a culture of collaboration across borders and nationalities.
Because we believe diversity leads to more great ideas and drives innovation.
Thanks to our over 3,000 visioneers, we develop unique visualization & collaboration technology that helps professionals accelerate innovation in the healthcare, enterprise and entertainment markets.
Function
Manufacturing execution and plant logistics is a core enabler of our digital manufacturing strategy within our new Digital Operations Team, which creates and realizes business value leveraging digital technologies. This role, will be accountable for the step change in the Operations Management System that is responsible for MES, shopfloor equipment logs, and digital SOP’s. This role will function globally across all our plants and products (Projection, Medical Displays, Digital Operating Room, Video Walls to name a few). It will collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation. Finally, this role will work at multiple organizational levels, from a very tactical & technical level to a senior strategic level.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the Process Execution Product Team and collaborate closely across Digital our Manufacturing Division and our Company's global IT organization to ensure a resilient, value driven process execution platform.
- Develop and maintain a multi-year, multi-site technology strategic roadmap for MES and shopfloor logging to progress to a digital shopfloor including electronic Device History Records, with review by exception, and other manufacturing process functions.
- End to end Management of Manufacturing Execution technology stack collaborating closely with platform partners, IT and Process Experts.
- Closely collaborate with Manufacturing Operations and site teams, Plant Maintenance Services, Digital Data Quality and the software team that IT/OT platform groups.
- Oversee and guide future architectures including incorporation of cloud technologies
- Collaborate with Process Experts to enable fit for purpose data integration strategies including process control, production optimization for OEE and plant scheduling.
- Drive implementation standards and delivery roadmap.
- Lead Process Execution process standardization, simplification
- Lead and oversee standardized solution delivery. project and lifecycle management costs.
- Develop and manage a global network of MES super users
- Work closely with ERP team in advancing the managing and advancing the MES – ERP integration.
Your profile
The following competencies outline the core leadership traits that this role should demonstrate and are seen as key to being successful in fulfilling the role.
- Organizationally savvy
- Ability to navigate cross functionally within our Company. Must partner effectively with all levels of leadership.
- You must be able to clearly represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, tough trade-offs, and potential solutions to help other leaders understand the decisions they must make and what options they possess.
- You will influence organizational priorities, business and manufacturing process owners, and business and technology direction.
- You will manage cross-functional communications to ensure all stakeholders are informed and needs are aligned.
- Builds relationships within our own IT organization, our business stakeholders within our Company, as well a cross functionally to other organizations.
- Ability to communicate clearly with difference audience whether cross functionally within IT, business stakeholders, or organizational leadership. Strong importance on recognizing the audience and crafting messaging accordingly. All aspects are important from technical or tactical discussions at site level to strategic communications at an organization level.
- Ability to balance a single user requirement against a strong focus for a standardized model and be able to influence local users to a global approach.
- Ability to take responsibility to ensure success on any initiative. On critical projects, it instills confidence in others when they know you have a vested interest in the positive outcome, they are all striving toward
- Master in Engineering, Business economics or equivalent
- 4+ years of MES working experience. Preferably in discrete manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of operational technologies in manufacturing, specifically the business use cases for discrete manufacturing of high value product, operator oriented.
- Previous working experience in managing projects.
Let's "wow" you with
- A variety of inhouse trainings at our Barco University so you can continuously grow & learn as a professional.
- A healthy working environment with interesting workshops, sport activities, diverse & fresh lunch/snack breaks - with our own coffee bar and restaurant in Kortrijk - and many more options as we care about your wellbeing.
- The opportunity to work for an international market leader where innovation matters.
