Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems

Reynolds Consumer Products • Lake Forest, IL

12d • $127,700 - $185,150 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems at our Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL. The Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems leads the development, deployment, and support of Inductive Automation Ignition solutions and Redzone MES integrations across the manufacturing network. This role serves as the internal Ignition platform owner and certified developer, building scalable SCADA/HMI, historian, reporting, alarming, and integration capabilities that improve visibility, OEE, downtime tracking, quality, reliability, and frontline execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Automation, Computer Science, Information Systems, Manufacturing Technology, or related field; or equivalent Ignition experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in OT, SCADA/HMI, industrial automation, manufacturing systems, or industrial data integration.
• 3+ years of hands-on Inductive Automation Ignition development or support experience in manufacturing environments.
• Ability to travel 30-40%.
• Experience with MES deployments, integrations, OEE/downtime routines, production performance, or continuous improvement workflows required.
• Strong project delivery, stakeholder engagement, documentation, testing, training, and post-launch support experience.
• Advanced Ignition knowledge: Gateway, Designer, Perspective, Vision, Tag Historian, SQL Historian, SQL Bridge, Reporting, Alarm Notification, OPC UA, and Enterprise Administration.
• Experience with reusable templates, UDTs, tag standards, named queries, bindings, scripting libraries, project inheritance, and standardized navigation.
• Knowledgeable Java, SQL, historian configuration, dashboards, trends, reports, and data quality monitoring.
• Working knowledge of Redzone MES, PLC connectivity, OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, ERP/CMMS interfaces, cloud connectivity, and MES-to-historian data alignment.
• Knowledge of OT cybersecurity, role-based access, backups, change control, version control, gateway monitoring, performance tuning, and manufacturing metrics such as OEE, throughput, downtime, yield, and production attainment.

Nice To Haves

• Ignition Core Certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own Ignition standards, roadmap, governance, and sustainment across manufacturing sites.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support Ignition applications using Core or Gold Certified developer best practices.
• Configure Ignition gateways, projects, inheritance, security, user roles, tag providers, databases, and deployment standards.
• Build scalable, supportable Ignition and Redzone MES solutions for plant-floor and enterprise use.
• Translate manufacturing needs into architecture, workflows, dashboards, integrations, and adoption routines.
• Balance urgency, standardization, cybersecurity, governance, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Develop Tag Historian, SQL Historian, SQL Bridge, Perspective, Vision, dashboards, reports, trends, and alarm views.
• Support Redzone MES integration, adoption, and optimization for OEE, downtime, production tracking, quality checks, operator engagement, action tracking, and daily management routines.
• Connect Ignition with PLCs, OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, SQL databases, Redzone MES, ERP, CMMS, cloud platforms, and BI tools.
• Ensure Ignition environments are secure, documented, backed up, monitored, version-controlled, and supportable.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, quality, IT, and integrators to deliver solutions, train users, and drive adoption.
• Collaborate effectively with operations, maintenance, engineering, IT, cybersecurity, vendors, and integrators.

Benefits

• 18% annual incentive provided the business meets financial goals and the individual meets their performance goals, subject to plan administration guidelines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior