Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems leads the development, deployment, and support of Inductive Automation Ignition solutions and Redzone MES integrations across the manufacturing network. The role serves as the internal Ignition platform owner and certified developer, building scalable SCADA/HMI, historian, reporting, alarming, and integration capabilities to improve visibility, OEE, downtime tracking, quality, reliability, and frontline execution. The position owns Ignition standards, roadmap, governance, and sustainment across manufacturing sites. It designs, builds, tests, deploys, and supports Ignition applications using certified developer best practices; configures gateways, projects, inheritance, security, user roles, tag providers, databases, and deployment standards; and builds supportable solutions for plant-floor and enterprise use. The role translates manufacturing needs into architectures, workflows, dashboards, integrations, and adoption routines while balancing urgency, standardization, cybersecurity, governance, change management, and continuous improvement. The position develops historian and visualization capabilities, including Tag Historian, SQL Historian, SQL Bridge, Perspective, Vision, dashboards, reports, trends, and alarm views. It supports Redzone MES integration, adoption, and optimization for OEE, downtime, production tracking, quality checks, operator engagement, action tracking, and daily management routines. It connects Ignition with PLCs, OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, SQL databases, Redzone MES, ERP, CMMS, cloud platforms, and BI tools, and supports security, documentation, backups, monitoring, version control, and reliability. The Senior Manager partners with operations, maintenance, engineering, quality, IT, cybersecurity, vendors, and integrators to deliver solutions, train users, and drive adoption. The role is based at the company's Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois, and requires 30–40% travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Automation, Computer Science, Information Systems, Manufacturing Technology, or a related field; 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.
- Experience with MES deployments, integrations, OEE/downtime routines, production performance, or continuous improvement workflows.
- Strong project delivery, stakeholder engagement, documentation, testing, training, and post-launch support experience.
- Advanced Ignition knowledge, including 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.
- Knowledge of 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.
- Ability to travel 30–40%.
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 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.
- Develop historian, visualization, reporting, trending, and alarm capabilities using Ignition tools and components.
- 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.
- Use scripting and automation capabilities, including named queries, expression bindings, transaction groups, alarm pipelines, and automated workflows.
- Ensure Ignition environments are secure, documented, backed up, monitored, version-controlled, and supportable.
- Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, quality, IT, cybersecurity, vendors, and integrators to deliver solutions, train users, and drive adoption.
- Balance business priorities, standardization, cybersecurity, governance, change management, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Role is eligible for an 18% annual incentive, provided the business meets financial goals and the individual meets performance goals, subject to plan administration guidelines.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
