Job Summary

The Ignition MES Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Ignition MES-Lite deployments across manufacturing sites, coordinating plant teams, business process owners, BAs, product teams, developers, architects, integration teams, infrastructure teams, ERP/engineering/quality teams, and implementation partners.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Project Delivery

Lead MES-Lite deployments from initiation and site readiness through design, configuration, integration, testing, training, go-live, hypercare, and transition to sustainment.

Develop and maintain the integrated project plan.

Establish project milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and decision points.

Coordinate parallel workstreams and ensure activities converge on deployment milestones.

Establish clear accountability across plant and enterprise teams.

Scope & Governance

Establish and maintain the project charter, scope, deployment waves, success criteria, and governance model.

Manage scope changes and ensure requested functionality follows established product/enhancement governance.

Coordinate scope decisions with the product team, architects, business process owners, and technical leads rather than allowing individual sites to independently drive custom development.

Maintain decision and action logs and ensure open decisions have accountable owners.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.

Drive resolution and escalation of blockers across teams.

Maintain visibility to cross-site and cross-system dependencies.

Escalate decisions requiring product, architecture, security, business, or executive direction.

Coordinate dependencies involving ERP/master data, engineering/work instructions, testing systems, infrastructure, devices, networking, and integration delivery.

Skill Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related field.

7+ years of IT/digital/manufacturing project or program delivery experience.

Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-functional technology deployments in manufacturing environments.

Experience coordinating business, IT, OT, engineering, infrastructure, integration, vendors, and plant organizations.

Strong project planning, RAID management, dependency management, stakeholder communication, and executive reporting capabilities.

Working understanding of MES and manufacturing execution processes

Other Requirements

Experience managing Ignition MES/MES-Lite, Apriso, FactoryTalk ProductionCentre, or comparable MES deployments.

Understanding of production execution, traceability, quality, OEE, data collection, and manufacturing master data.

Experience with ERP/MES integration, particularly SAP or MAPICS.

Familiarity with PLM/engineering systems, shop-floor test systems, PLC/OPC connectivity, and manufacturing infrastructure.

Agile/Scrum and Jira experience.

PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or comparable certification.

Experience working in global, multi-site manufacturing programs.

Experience managing third-party implementation partners.