Description
Currently seeking a MES Solutions Analyst, to fulfil a contractual requirement for my client based at their offices in Derby, due to commence ASAP and continue until December 2019, with view for possible further extension.
Due to the nature of the role and the time scale and requirements issued by the client, candidates have been advised to hold current and active SC Clearance for this role OR be willing and eligible to obtain the relevant clearance at the clients request.
Please find full details as per the below, provided by the client for your consideration:
Request is for experienced analysts with a strong track record of implementing either MES or ERP manufacturing on the shop floor. If we see evidence that such a candidate has presented and run workshops with manufacturing teams in order to formalise requirements, perform gap analysis, create process configurations and conduct pilots and acceptance tests, and if they have also supported multiple businesses through implementation into production, that will gain our attention.
Key deliverables:
- Contribute to initial discovery workshops to reveal the business processes at each plant
- Attend and where necessary organise detail workshops at the plant to analyse the gaps between current process and solution capability; write up the gap analysis
- Advise on best practice and acceptable workarounds
- Propose solutions to close the process gaps and document agreed options
- Broker changes to local business processes for optimisation and for compatibility with new solution
- Recommend whether any system change requests may be appropriate, help construct such requests and tender them for approval by the change board
- Document the to-be processes and configuration
- Support the project manager in delivering the implementation
- Support the technical team and business team in preparing the configuration and implementing the solution
Skills and knowledge required:
- Thorough knowledge of processes involved in product life cycle management, enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution
- Functional implementation experience with at least one MES package (eg Simatic IT, Datapak, Camstar, Factelligence, HPOMS)
- Exposure to at least one PLM or ERP package
- At least five years' experience as a manufacturing business analyst or MES implementation lead