Solutions Architect

Location:

Region: North
Country: Germany

Role:

Rate: Negotiable

Application Details:

Start Date: ASAP
Expiry Date: 23/04/2025
Job Reference: HKSA_1742984137

Solutions Architect

Job Title: MES Solution Architect

Contract Type: Freelance/Interim/Self employed

Contract Length: 2 years initial contract with the commitment to stay on following this for a multi year commitment

Location: Most of the work can be conducted remotely however there will be times where you will have to travel to one of the clients sites across Europe and globally

g2 has partnered with a global manufacturing client are looking for a freelance MES Solution Architect for a long-term commitment with them.

The role is split into two key areas of responsibility, one being more involved in the technical side and the other on the business and stakeholder collaboration side.

Responsibilities:

Solution Functional & Technical Leadership

  • Designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance production solutions based on business requirements to support production and logistics processes.
  • Providing functional & technical leadership and direction to project teams throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Designing custom features and modules within the MES to meet specific customer needs.
  • Designing and implementing integration between enterprise systems such as ERP, MES, and PLM.
  • Evaluating market solutions to propose the integration or duplication of key functionalities in the corporate template.
  • Leading the implementation of production solutions, including configuration, customisation, integration with other systems, and data migration.
  • Optimisation of performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in MES solutions.
  • Providing guidance on quality assurance process to ensure system quality and reliability
  • Creating and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation, including design specifications and operating instructions

Stakeholder Collaboration and Requirement Management

  • Collaborating with stakeholders, including internal and external entities, project managers, consultants, for requirement collection and project planning.
  • Collaborating with other corporate programs to ensure best enterprise architecture
  • Collaborating with clients to gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into MES solutions.
  • Challenging stakeholders on the correctness and efficiency of their processes to identify areas for improvement and ensure alignment with best practices.
  • Ensuring Manufacturing best practices and company standards.
  • Participating in RFP/RFQ processes and negotiations, as required.
  • Conducting regular stakeholder meetings to review requirements, progress, and address potential concerns.
  • Facilitating requirement validation sessions to ensure the defined solutions meet business needs.
  • Gathering and documenting both functional and technical requirements, ensuring all aspects of stakeholder needs are captured accurately.
  • Establishing and promoting the use of reusable templates and best practices for solution design and implementation.
  • Providing support to ensure the smooth adoption and operation of MES solutions.

Requirements:

As this role is both technical and business focused, it is ideal you not only have a basic technical knowledge but can also communicate and integrate with integrate with multiple stakeholders.

  • Advanced Analytical Skills: Exceptional ability to analyse complex scenarios and manufacturing behaviours to derive actionable insights and convert into effective solution
  • Technical Expertise: In-depth knowledge of MES solutions and experience with system integration (ERP, PLM, and other enterprise systems). It is particularly nice if you have experience in Delmia Apriso MES System.
  • Industry Experience: Rich experience across different manufacturing sectors, providing valuable insights for cross-industry best practices and solution design
  • Problem-Solving: Troubleshooting skills to address complex functional & technical issues
  • Communication Skills: Excellent ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating requirements into actionable solutions.
  • Stakeholder Management: Experience in managing stakeholder relationships, setting expectations, and facilitating workshops.
  • Process Improvement: Capability to challenge and optimise existing processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Documentation: Proficiency in creating technical documentation, test strategies, and training materials.
  • Quality Assurance: Strong understanding of system testing and validation processes to ensure system reliability and alignment with requirements.
  • Training and Knowledge Sharing: Ability to design training strategies and conduct sessions for various stakeholders.
  • Adaptability: Ability to work in a dynamic environment and adapt to evolving project and business needs.
  • Project Management: Ability to lead complex projects, manage timelines, and ensure delivery against project objectives.

If this role interests you, send your CV below.

g2 Recruitment are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships or any other characteristic protected by law.

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L&D Team

We are very lucky that g2 recruitment see Learning and Development as a vital part of a consultants journey which is why we have 4 people in the team who you will work very closely with from day 1 in your career. The team are on hand to guide you through your career at all levels and provide extra support working closely with the management team to give all consultants the best chance of success.  

Our Three Pillars of Training

Academy:
Week 1 is a series of remote sessions to learn all things systems, followed by a 1 week academy process which is a mixture of classroom and deskside this will be in one of our UK offices and usually consists of 3-8 other consultants all starting their journey together.

Experienced Modules:
These are a variety of sessions curated by us designed to support consultants as they are progressing through the career ladder, the aim is to ensure consultants at all levels have access to L&D.

Junior Management Programme:
Ran by our head of L&D this programme is designed to support junior managers as they start their management career. This involves things like personal branding, time management and ends in a business plan which is presented to members of the Exec board and senior management team.

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Jaz D’Avola
Head of Learning & Development

Jaz joined g2 Recruitment in 2013.

She now leads our Learning and Development programme, transferring the knowledge and wisdom she learnt as a recruiter to the new generation of talent.

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Imani WIlliams
Learning and Development Consultant

Imani joined g2 Recruitment in 2022.

His role involves developing individuals in all areas of the business, varying from inducting and onboarding consultants to working with them 1 to 1 to identify areas of development.  He aids with growth of L&D across the business, watching consultants experience and develop.

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Learning and Development Consultant

Meghan joined g2 in 2023 as an L&D consultant, Working in recruitment for 6 years, her role is to  help consultants at all levels to upskill and focus on development points. This could be anything from sales calls or candidate calls to organisation improvements.

Kane Gray
Systems & Academy Trainer

Kane joined g2 in April 2023 as an Academy & Systems Trainer.

His role involves teaching the consultants that are new to the company the foundations of recruitment and our systems before then helping them to upskill in areas specific to each consultant. Working closely with different consultants and watching them implement the feedback, apply it, and then benefit off the back of it.

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