Digital Integrator, Lab Execution Systems

Johnson & Johnson•Malvern, PA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Digital Integrator – Plant Execution Systems serves as the digital lead and digital champion for manufacturing execution and operational technology platforms supporting pilot plants, development laboratories, and manufacturing operations. This role acts as the bridge between scientific, manufacturing, engineering, quality, and digital teams, ensuring Plant Execution Systems are deployed, integrated, adopted, and continuously improved to enable data-driven operations and digital manufacturing. The Digital Integrator is responsible for supporting platforms including: Manufacturing Execution Systems OSI-PI Asset Framework and Event Framework eLIMS integrations Digital manufacturing analytics and reporting solutions The position drives digital transformation initiatives that improve manufacturing efficiency, data integrity, and readiness for advanced analytics, AI, and autonomous operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Life Sciences, or related discipline.
Minimum 8–10 years experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cell therapy, gene therapy, or manufacturing environments.
Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and OSI-PI
Experience supporting digital manufacturing or operational technology solutions.
Understanding of GxP regulations and data integrity requirements.
Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing capabilities.
Proven experience leading digital transformation or business process improvement initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of ontology for Pharma
Experience with PES-X / MES platforms
OSI-PI
LIMS
Experience with system integration, data architectures, or manufacturing analytics.
Knowledge of SDLC and computerized system validation.
Project management certification or experience leading complex programs.

Responsibilities

Serve as the digital representative for Plant Execution Systems within the CGT
Align plant execution capabilities with Digital & Automation and TDS Digital strategies.
Ensure ontology is embedded directly into our execution systems, including MES, OSI-PI and LIMS supporting clinical batch manufacture.
Represent digital team for Operations manufacturing during strategic planning and governance .
Optimize Visualization, Reporting capabilities.
Drive successful implementation and rollout of manufacturing execution capabilities with focus on; Ontology being embedded into execution systems FAIR data being available within our Data storage systems
Support and ensure high data quality
Establish adoption strategies and business processes that promote sustainable execution and configuration to ensure data quality (FAIR data).
Partner with manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams to embed digital ways of working.
Enable seamless integration between MES, OSI-PI, SAP, eLIMS, Benchling, Zontal, and enterprise data platforms.
Ensure manufacturing data is structured, contextualized, and available for analytics.
Collaborate with Digital, IT, and OT teams on Asset Framework and Event Framework implementation.
Ensure system configuration aligns with approved master data and ontology standards.
Support GxP-compliant digital processes and computerized system validation activities.
Establish procedures that maintain data integrity, traceability.