Job Summary
If you are looking for a challenging role supporting global manufacturers in their transformation initiatives, we invite you to join us. At HCLTech, we help customers formulate strategies, translate them into execution and realise measurable business value through consulting and technology services. We are looking for professionals with strong manufacturing domain knowledge, customer engagement skills and technology understanding.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Manufacturing Consultant, you will work with external and internal stakeholders to deliver manufacturing consulting and transformation services.
- Understand customers’ manufacturing vision, business strategy and transformation priorities, and translate them into actionable initiatives.
- Assess current manufacturing processes, operational KPIs, shop-floor practices, application landscapes and business challenges.
- Define target-state processes and KPIs across production planning, manufacturing execution, quality management, maintenance, inventory and material flow.
- Re-engineer manufacturing processes using Lean, Six Sigma and Value Stream Mapping methodologies to improve productivity, quality and operational efficiency.
- Document current and target processes using standard modelling approaches such as BPMN, and prepare business requirements and functional specifications.
- Support manufacturing execution system (MES) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) assessments, solution selection, fit-gap analysis and implementation planning.
- Collaborate with technical teams to map business processes to MES/MOM, ERP, PLM and shop-floor systems, supporting an integrated manufacturing environment.
- Develop transformation roadmaps and business cases, linking proposed initiatives to improvements in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), throughput, cycle time, yield, scrap and downtime.
- Support solution validation, user acceptance testing, deployment readiness, training and organisational change management.
- Build strong customer relationships through workshops, stakeholder engagement and manufacturing thought leadership.
Contribute to proposals, consulting offerings, industry forums and customer briefings addressing manufacturing challenges
Skill Requirements
Experience and Qualifications
- Overall experience: 18+ years in manufacturing operations, manufacturing consulting or digital manufacturing transformation.
- Relevant delivery experience: At least 5–6 years delivering engineering/manufacturing improvement or technology implementation projects within manufacturing organisations, consulting firms or system integrators.
- Manufacturing processes: Experience in production planning and execution, work-order management, routing and work instructions, material tracking, traceability, quality management and equipment maintenance.
- Industries: Experience in one or more of Process manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, automotive, medical devices, electronics or semiconductor manufacturing.
- Technologies: Functional experience with one or more MES/MOM platforms, such as DELMIA Apriso, Siemens Opcenter, Critical Manufacturing or SAP Digital Manufacturing.
- System integration: Understanding of integration between MES/MOM, ERP, PLM, quality systems and shop-floor automation.
- Consulting skills: Experience conducting discovery workshops, process assessments, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis and transformation roadmap development.
- Business value: Ability to establish KPI baselines, identify improvement opportunities and articulate measurable benefits.
- Education: Graduate or postgraduate degree in engineering or a related discipline.
- Preferred qualifications: Lean/Six Sigma certification, manufacturing operations certifications or relevant MES/MOM platform certifications.
Core Competencies
Manufacturing domain expertise • Business process consulting • Digital manufacturing transformation • Stakeholder management • Functional solution design • Analytical problem-solving • Business case development • Communication and presentation skills