Associate Director, Manufacturing Systems Integration

Role Overview

• Build, configure, and sustain system integrations connecting operational systems to digital shopfloor systems and downstream operational capabilities.
• Partner with site operations and process engineers to define and execute detailed data mapping, translating shop floor data into parameters required for scheduling, productivity, and operational reporting use cases such as activity timing, equipment status, and production events.
• Establish and maintain integration standards, templates, and reusable patterns to enable consistent onboarding of new sites, lines, and capabilities.
• Oversee execution and scale up of integration solutions across global sites, ensuring alignment with site readiness, minimal disruption to operations, and consistent configurations.
• Provide senior level troubleshooting and incident leadership for integration related issues, working across manufacturing, automation, IT, and vendor teams to diagnose root causes, restore data flows, and prevent recurrence.
• Drive data quality and validation practices to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data supporting scheduling, productivity, and reporting capabilities.
• Maintain strong working familiarity with manufacturing data ecosystems, including MES, data historians, and process control environments, to understand how data is generated and structured at the source.
• Stay current with evolving technologies such as Ignition, OPC UA, edge platforms, and broader Industry 4.0 solutions, incorporating relevant advancements into integration approaches.
• Manage vendor and integrator relationships related to integration delivery, ensuring clear expectations, technical quality, and alignment to standards.
• Coordinate execution across a distributed global team model, ensuring alignment, timely decision making, and effective escalation management.
• Partner closely with the Operations Orchestration Product Manager to inform roadmap priorities based on integration complexity, site readiness, and technical insights.
• Mentor engineers and site teams on integration best practices, troubleshooting approaches, and data interpretation.
• Support governance and change control processes for integration configurations, ensuring traceability, compliance, and proper lifecycle management.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in manufacturing technology or industrial systems environments; pharmaceutical manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years in system integration, automation, or manufacturing IT/OT roles.
• Strong experience integrating upstream systems such as MES, PI, and DeltaV with downstream platforms including scheduling, productivity, analytics, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing execution processes and shop floor data generation.
• Demonstrated experience in data mapping and contextualization across manufacturing systems.
• Proficiency in SQL and relational database concepts, with experience querying and transforming manufacturing and operational data for downstream applications.
• Working familiarity with manufacturing data ecosystems including MES, data historians, and process control environments.
• Familiarity with modern integration technologies including APIs, OPC UA, streaming, and edge to cloud data flows.
• Awareness of emerging manufacturing technologies including Ignition and Industry 4.0 approaches.
• Understanding of IT infrastructure considerations affecting industrial data systems.
• Experience with SDLC practices and computer system validation concepts.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities across global teams.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field preferred.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• SDLC
• SQL

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days
• annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable