Digital Specialist - Emerging Technologies

Title: Digital Specialist - Emerging Technologies
Location: VA - Richmond
Duration: 6 Months

Responsibilities:
" Work and collaborate with users, engineering, and support teams to set up and maintain workflows
" Work and collaborate with Production Data Analyst to investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies
" Train new and existing users
" Partner with IT to ensure system configuration and uptime
" Implement methodologies and processes for reporting performance metrics
" Collaborate with users, engineering, IT, and MES vendor on improving operational performance
" Guide users in defining requirements for added features, problem resolution and proper application utilization
" Develop and implement process improvements by actively participating on cross functional teams
" Identify opportunities to optimize and integrate isolated systems and/or automate existing processes for efficiency
" Be a part of short- and long-term projects to implement process improvements and efficiencies
" Work with MES vendor on updates, upgrades and new tool configuration
" Perform testing to ensure developmental needs meet functional requirements
" Formulate and maintain MES procedures and documentation
" Stay abreast of current information and developments concerning MES

Qualifications:
" 2-year technology degree or equivalent preferred, not required
" 1-2 years of manufacturing experience preferred
" Line of business experience preferred
" A programming background;
" Able to work with people at different levels;
" Self-managed, good with handling multiple projects;
" Some IT background - infrastructure would be good, software is not necessary;
" Not sure how you quantify this, but I need someone with grit (this assignment will be a challenge, he/she will be supported and join a good team, but this person needs to be able to push and make things happen).
" Specific application experience is not required but nice to have. Applications we work with: Windows OS, SAP, the main system will be a shopfloor management application