Lead MES/Digital Manufacturing Business Analyst

Eaton Corporation•El Paso, TX

7d•$97,000 - $143,000•Onsite

About The Position

Eaton is seeking a Lead MES/Digital Manufacturing Business Analyst to partner with our electrical sector manufacturing sites. This position requires up to 25% travel. As an experienced MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Business Analyst, you will bring strong hands-on manufacturing knowledge of Inductive Automation Ignition to support the design, enhancement, and deployment of MES-Lite software solutions across manufacturing sites as part of our Digital Manufacturing Tiger Team. Operating as a dedicated team member alongside the Tiger Team Leader and IT Project Manager/Scrum Master, the analyst serves as the critical bridge between manufacturing operations, IT/OT, and technical delivery teams—translating shopfloor and manufacturing needs into scalable, standardized MES capabilities. The role elicits and manages requirements, identifies opportunities for standardization and reuse across plants while balancing site-specific needs, and ensures solutions align with product strategy, architecture standards (ISA-95 / Unified Namespace), and cybersecurity requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in manufacturing, industrial IT, or MES environments.
Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, including production execution, OEE and performance metrics, downtime tracking, and quality processes.
Experience working in IT/OT integrated environments and translating complex shopfloor processes into clear requirements.
Hands-on knowledge of Inductive Automation Ignition (Perspective and/or Vision) and Ignition MES modules.
Understanding of MES concepts and the ISA-95 / Unified Namespace (UNS) data model, including data modeling and tag structures.
Familiarity with Kepware / OPC UA connectivity and integration of MES with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle).
Exposure to cloud or hybrid architectures and shopfloor/edge connectivity.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; works regularly with business analysts, project managers, architects, developers, and plant/operations teams.
Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills; able to lead workshops and influence across multiple plants and stakeholders.
Self-motivated, team-oriented, and able to work under pressure to tight deadlines across concurrent site deployments.

Nice To Haves

Experience in multi-site or global manufacturing programs; background in continuous improvement or Lean manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

Partner with manufacturing, operations, quality, and IT stakeholders to understand current-state processes (including current-state value stream maps) and future-state MES needs; elicit, document, and manage business and functional requirements for Ignition-based MES solutions.
Translate operational use cases into clear user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria; validate that requirements meet business objectives and are understandable to solution designers and developers.
Identify opportunities for standardization and solution-template reuse across plants while balancing site-specific needs, supporting a cohesive product strategy across growth sites.
Support the configuration and deployment of Ignition MES modules—Production Dispatch & Execution, Production Tracking, Performance Analytics (OEE), Data Collection, Product Definition, Resource Management, Quality Execution, and Inventory Execution.
Collaborate with technical teams on Ignition Perspective/Vision UI requirements, data modeling and tag structures (UNS), and integration with PLCs, historians, ERP (e.g., SAP, Mapics), and other boundary systems; validate alignment with product strategy, architecture standards, and cybersecurity requirements.
Coordinate use cases and test scenarios with the customer to ensure end-to-end user acceptance testing is complete; support role-based training, super-users/SMEs, go-live (RAID log, hypercare), and post go-live stabilization to drive adoption from Day 1.