Senior Architect - Digital Manufacturing

At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

What makes this a great opportunity?

We seek a highly skilled IT Digital Manufacturing Senior Engineer/Technical Architect to work on our global program for implementing Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) solutions. This role is important to enable our digital transformation efforts, enhancing our manufacturing efficiency, and ensuring operational excellence across all global facilities. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in design and implementation of enterprise-wide IT projects in the manufacturing sector, with a deep understanding of digital technologies and their capabilities in improving manufacturing processes.

Role Responsibilities

System Design: Lead the technical design, build, test and deployment of enterprise-wide MES and Plant Maintenance solutions, aligning with the company's business & technical objectives and overall digital transformation goals.
Offshore Team Management: Future
Team Environment: Skilled in working collaboratively within a project team environment and developing skills to support evolving needs.
Change Management: Have overall awareness of change management value and importance in the success for shop-floor manufacturing systems. Participation in activities with the Adoption Leader, ensuring the adoption of new systems and processes, warranting high-quality standards in user documentation, and providing ongoing support.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging with technical teams, business stakeholders, and management effectively, facilitating clear and productive discussions. Experience with effectively communicating design and technical concepts.
Enterprise-Level Project Experience: Proven experience in design, build, test and deployment of multi-plant, complex systems involving both external partners and internal resources.
Vendor Collaboration: Design in collaboration with software vendors and implementation partners to ensure the successful delivery of technology solutions.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies in digital manufacturing, evaluating and implementing innovative solutions that can enhance operational efficiency and competitiveness.
Compliance and Best Practices: Ensure all digital manufacturing designs comply with relevant industry standards, data security policies, and best practices. Become an advocate of the core model.
Support experience: Capability support and maintenance of implemented manufacturing systems, ensuring their reliability, value and effectiveness over time.

Qualifications

Required Experience
1+ MES Project which includes design, development, test and deployment.
2-5+ years’ experience in general IT/Engineering in process industries. Experience with Agile and Waterfall software project methodologies.

Soft Skills
Experience working in team dynamics. Ability to work with technical, functional, and business personnel during design and implementation phases of a project. Experience with testing procedures within a team dynamic including plant level system users.
 
Technical Proficiency
MES and Plant Maintenance Systems: Working knowledge of Manufacturing Execution Systems (preferably Aveva Suite) and Plant Maintenance solution designs. Experience in integrating system (i.e. SAP to ensure seamless data flow and process optimization) to assure best practice in designs.
Relational Database and .NET Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of Relational Database design and optimization (preferably MS SQL). Deep knowledge of .NET/C++, Java, programming platforms applied within MES and CMMS.
Quality Management: Understanding quality management principles and their application within MES to support continuous improvement and compliance with industry standards.
KPIs and Dashboards: Experience with build and test of MES dashboards and Reports with appropriate KPI’s.
SCADA and PLC Integration Awareness: awareness of t