MES Consultant- Digital Twin

Job description

**JOB DESCRIPTION** **Job Title:** MES Consultant- Digital Twin **Location:** Pune / Chennai- India **Job Objective / Purpose:** • Provide CPG manufacturing domain expertise for Digital Twin and Smart Manufacturing initiatives • Define manufacturing business processes, KPIs and operational scenarios • Bridge Plant Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, OT, MES and Digital Twin teams **Technical/Functional Skills:** • Experience range 8+ years • Strong experience in CPG/FMCG manufacturing operations or manufacturing transformation programs • Proven Digital Twin platforms such as Siemens Xcelerator, Azure Digital Twins, AVEVA, PTC ThingWorx or equivalent • Deep understanding of Production, Packaging, Quality, Inventory, Warehouse and Maintenance processes • Strong knowledge of batch/continuous manufacturing, recipe management, genealogy and traceability • Experience in manufacturing KPI definition and performance improvement including OEE, Yield, Throughput, Waste, Downtime and Capacity Utilization • Experience in Digital Twin, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Digital Thread initiatives • Ability to identify Digital Twin use cases for production optimization, bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, asset utilization and operational excellence • Ability to map shop-floor processes and operational pain points into digital process models and business scenarios • Understanding of manufacturing data flows across ERP, MES, SCADA, Historian, IoT and shop-floor systems • Experience in business process assessment, fit-gap assessment, impact analysis and value realization tracking • Strong analytical skills and ability to work with cross-functional manufacturing stakeholders **Key Roles & Responsibilities:** • Act as Subject Matter Expert for CPG manufacturing operations and business processes • Lead customer workshops to understand current-state and future-state manufacturing processes • Define business requirements, process models, operational KPIs and functional scenarios for Digital Twin initiatives • Identify improvement opportunities across Production, Packaging, Quality, Inventory, Warehouse and Maintenance areas • Define Digital Twin use cases and business value metrics for manufacturing performance improvement • Support Digital Twin scenarios including simulation, what-if analysis, bottleneck analysis and production optimization • Collaborate with MES, IT, OT, Data and Architecture teams to translate business requirements into solution requirements • Validate Digital Twin outputs and recommendations against shop-floor operations and business KPIs • Support Smart Factory, Industry 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing transformation programs • Conduct user workshops, knowledge transfer sessions and business process training **General Skills:** • Knowledge of MPP, Microsoft Visio • Experience of working in CPG/FMCG manufacturing environment • Team Management • Good communication skills written and verbal • Good Experience in SDLC and Agile/ Scrum Development • Excellent stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills