MES Functional Consultant / OpCenter

About Birlasoft:
Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.)
Educational Background - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Location: Any BSL Location
Job Description
Senior MES Functional Consultant : Exp Level 10+ Years
Seeking a client-facing Siemens Opcenter Discrete MES Functional Consultant to support client s manufacturing stakeholders as the MES program scales to new production lines, translating shop-floor business requirements into MES functional designs. candidate should have sound domain knowledge of manufacturing-process , solution architecture, implementation .
Key Responsibilities
- Gather and document business and functional requirements for each new production lines MES rollout.
- Define use cases for work order execution, production monitoring, downtime/quality management, and traceability.
- Perform fit-gap analysis against the current Opcenter configuration and recommend functional solutions.
- Prepare functional design specifications and functional test scenarios, and support scenario/integration testing.
- Collaborate with Development, Integration, and Change Management to ensure functional designs are implementable and adoptable.
- Support training, Functional Testing, UAT, and go-live activities for each rollout wave, working closely with the Change Management function.
- Act as a day-to-day liaison between client production/business stakeholders and the Birlasoft technical team.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in engineering, manufacturing, industrial engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 10+ years of MES functional consulting experience, ideally with Siemens Opcenter or comparable MES platforms.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes: production execution, quality, traceability, and material/inventory flows.
- Experience preparing BRDs, functional requirement and design specifications, and test scenarios.
- Familiarity with ISA-95 and MES/shop-floor digitalization best practices.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with experience operating in client-facing, onsite roles.