DGM - MES Product Development

'MES Product Management

Define the MES product vision, strategy, roadmap, governance, and investment priorities. - Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, and Plant leadership to deliver business value. - Drive global platform standardization while addressing critical plant-specific requirements.

Operations & Reliability

Own availability, performance, resilience, and lifecycle management of MES environments across multiple plants. - Lead application support, incident/problem management, releases, disaster recovery, and operational excellence. - Establish and continuously improve service levels, monitoring, and production support processes.

Technology & Architecture

Own the future-state architecture of the custom.NET MES platform. - Lead modernization from legacy architectures toward modular, API-first, cloud/hybrid-ready, secure, and scalable platforms. - Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and automation. - Manage technical debt and legacy technology rationalization without disrupting manufacturing operations.

Smart Factory Transformation

Define the role of MES within the organization's Industry 4.0 / Smart Factory strategy. - Enable integration with machines, PLCs, SCADA, robotics, industrial IoT, historians, and other OT systems. - Establish the foundation for real-time manufacturing data, advanced analytics, AI/ML, digital twins, connected workers, and intelligent manufacturing. - Position MES as a trusted source of contextualized manufacturing data for enterprise digital and AI initiatives.

Leadership & Organization

Lead a high-performing team of product managers, architects, software engineers, DevOps professionals - Build engineering excellence, talent capability, succession, and a culture of innovation and accountability. - Manage strategic technology partners, system integrators, and application support vendors.