MES Consultant- Digital Twin

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: MES Consultant- Digital Twin

Location: Pune / Chennai- India

Job Objective / Purpose:

• Provide CPG manufacturing domain expertise for Digital Twin and Smart Manufacturing initiatives

• Define manufacturing business processes, KPIs and operational scenarios

• Bridge Plant Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, OT, MES and Digital Twin teams

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Experience range 8+ years

• Strong experience in CPG/FMCG manufacturing operations or manufacturing transformation programs

• Proven Digital Twin platforms such as Siemens Xcelerator, Azure Digital Twins, AVEVA, PTC ThingWorx or equivalent

• Deep understanding of Production, Packaging, Quality, Inventory, Warehouse and Maintenance processes

• Strong knowledge of batch/continuous manufacturing, recipe management, genealogy and traceability

• Experience in manufacturing KPI definition and performance improvement including OEE, Yield, Throughput, Waste, Downtime and Capacity Utilization

• Experience in Digital Twin, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Digital Thread initiatives

• Ability to identify Digital Twin use cases for production optimization, bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, asset utilization and operational excellence

• Ability to map shop-floor processes and operational pain points into digital process models and business scenarios

• Understanding of manufacturing data flows across ERP, MES, SCADA, Historian, IoT and shop-floor systems

• Experience in business process assessment, fit-gap assessment, impact analysis and value realization tracking

• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with cross-functional manufacturing stakeholders

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Act as Subject Matter Expert for CPG manufacturing operations and business processes

• Lead customer workshops to understand current-state and future-state manufacturing processes

• Define business requirements, process models, operational KPIs and functional scenarios for Digital Twin initiatives

• Identify improvement opportunities across Production, Packaging, Quality, Inventory, Warehouse and Maintenance areas

• Define Digital Twin use cases and business value metrics for manufacturing performance improvement

• Support Digital Twin scenarios including simulation, what-if analysis, bottleneck analysis and production optimization

• Collaborate with MES, IT, OT, Data and Architecture teams to translate business requirements into solution requirements

• Validate Digital Twin outputs and recommendations against shop-floor operations and business KPIs

• Support Smart Factory, Industry 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing transformation programs

• Conduct user workshops, knowledge transfer sessions and business process training

General Skills:

• Knowledge of MPP, Microsoft Visio

• Experience of working in CPG/FMCG manufacturing environment

• Team Management

• Good communication skills written and verbal

• Good Experience in SDLC and Agile/ Scrum Development

• Excellent stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills