The Regional Digital Manufacturing Lead drives the deployment, adoption, scaling of digital manufacturing capabilities across a network of manufacturing sites within the region. The role serves as the key link between global digital manufacturing programs site operations, ensuring digital solutions—including Industry 4.0, advanced analytics, AI-enabled technologies—deliver measurable business value.
Leveraging deep manufacturing operational expertise, the incumbent partners with site leadership, MTTC Operational Excellence teams, global digital stakeholders to accelerate digital maturity, improve operational performance, embed data-driven decision-making daily operations. The role is accountable fvalue realization, capability development, sustainable adoption of digital solutions across the region
Responsibilities
1. Deployment Leadership (Core)
•Lead the co-creation of digital solutions in collaboration with manufacturing teams to meet site-specific needs
•Own the rollout scaling of digital use cases across regional sites, including AI-driven initiatives
•Define deployment waves, sequencing, prioritization across plants
•Ensure high quality speed of execution during implementation
2. Value Delivery
•Act as active member in Ideas pipeline Governance committee to assign right priorities value to digital enhancements new digital ideas
•Accountable fachieving regional value targets (e.g., productivity, yield improvement)
•Ensure deployed use cases deliver measurable sustainable business outcomes
•Track, monitor, report value realization across sites realization through defined performance metrics KPIs.
3. Capability Building
•Coach, train, empower site digital focal points using a leader-leader approach
•Build strengthen data capabilities digital continuous improvement practices across plants, support increased operational autonomy
•Develop digital maturity at site level to sustain long-term impact
•Support the sites to develop Site Digital roadmap execute against it
4. Feedback & Continuous Improvement
•Ensure consistent adoption use of digital tools across sites, support incorporating digital input daily SQRE routines on site
•Eliminate duplication of initiatives independently developed solutions
•Drive cross-site learning, replication of best practices, continuous improvement culture
•Drive digital maturity heat map at site to align on maturity, gaps support needed
5. Regional Stakeholder Management
•Partner with Site Directors, Multi-Site Leaders (MSLs), the Global Digital Manufacturing Program team to align priorities execution plans.
•Secure resources commitment fdigital deployments
•Serve as the primary regional liaison between site operations global digital manufacturing programs.
Key Interfaces
•Digital Program Manager (governance alignment) US
•Site Digital Focal Points
•Multi-Site Operations Leader (MSL)
•Regional MTTC / OpEx / CI leaders
•Site Directors Unit Leaders
•Product Manufacturing Owners, BRM, IT teams
Qualifications
•Bachelors degree in Engineering related field.
•Minimum 10 years of manufacturing, operations, site manufacturing services experience.
•Deep understanding of manufacturing operations, stewardship, process safety, maintenance, reliability, production systems.
•Ability to translate operational challenges scalable digital solutions that deliver measurable value.
•Proven track record managing Site programs larger initiatives
•Experience leading, coaching, influencing teams through direct indirect leadership.
•Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, change leadership skills.
•Experience facilitating workshops, training programs, capability-building initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
•Strong background in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement methodologies.
•Knowledge of digital manufacturing technologies, including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Industrial IoT (IIoT), process historians, analytics platforms, artificial intelligence applications, automation systems.
Travel & Location
•Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
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