Manufacturing Process Lead, Automated Solutions

VentureOne; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 500,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education allowance

Free on-site meals

Annual flight allowance

Health coverage

Relocation support

Well-being activities

Job summary

VentureOne in Abu Dhabi seeks a Manufacturing Process Lead to own end-to-end factory processes across machining, assembly, testing, and packaging. You will drive As-Is/To-Be maps, capacity models, and interfaces with MES, SAP, and WMS, collaborating with operations, engineering, and digital teams to deliver measurable improvements.

Ideal candidate has 14+ years in industrial/manufacturing engineering, strong process-mapping skills, and experience with automation, line balancing, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial/manufacturing engineering or related field.
• 14+ years in industrial/manufacturing engineering or factory planning.
• Experience owning end-to-end factory processes in complex discrete manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Act as end-to-end Factory Process Owner across machining, assembly, testing, and packaging.
• Develop and maintain As-Is/To-Be process maps and capacity models.
• Define interfaces between equipment, automation, MES, SAP, and WMS.
• Lead process workshops with operations, engineering, quality, and digital teams.

Skills

Industrial engineering

Manufacturing leadership

Process mapping

Cross-functional leadership

LEAN / OEE

Communication to CXOs

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

Visio

Lucidchart

AutoCAD

Siemens Plant Simulation

FlexSim / AnyLogic

SAP / MES / WMS integration

Job description

About Us

Are you ready to shape how cutting-edge technologies are positioned, understood, and adopted by real markets? At VentureOne, we build ventures and commercialize breakthrough technologies emerging from advanced research. Our focus spans Aerospace and Space, Security and Defense, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, and Transportation, with technologies across Cryptography, Secure Systems, Directed Energy, Advanced Materials, Autonomous Systems, and more.

About Us

Are you ready to shape how cutting-edge technologies are positioned, understood, and adopted by real markets? At VentureOne, we build ventures and commercialize breakthrough technologies emerging from advanced research. Our focus spans Aerospace and Space, Security and Defense, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, and Transportation, with technologies across Cryptography, Secure Systems, Directed Energy, Advanced Materials, Autonomous Systems, and more.

About The Role

The Manufacturing Process Lead acts as the Factory Process Owner across a multi-package industrial automation program, owning the end-to-end manufacturing process architecture from incoming material through RM Storage, CNC machining, Surface treatment, Assembly lines, testing, Painting, Packaging, FG storage and dispatch.

The role defines and maintains the As-Is & To-Be manufacturing processes, process assessment report, process flow diagrams, capacity and takt models, material flows, and process interfaces across automation packages. Working closely with Production team, engineering team and digital/MES teams, the role ensures that process have correctly mapped as per business benefits. The candidate should have fluent communication and experience in presenting to CXOs and Management.

The role also provides the manufacturing-process bridge between the physical factory and enterprise/digital systems, ensuring that shop-floor processes are correctly represented in MES, SAP, WMS, planning, quality, and traceability solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the end-to-end Factory Process Owner, defining and governing manufacturing processes across machining, surface treatment, painting, assembly, testing, storage, intralogistics, packaging, and supporting operations.
• Develop and maintain As-Is and To-Be process maps, process flow diagrams, swimlane diagrams, value-stream maps, product routings, and cross-functional process/interface flows.
• Lead process workshops with operations, engineering, quality, logistics, digital teams, and vendors to define process requirements, responsibilities, hand-offs, exceptions, rework loops, and system interactions.
• Own and validate takt-time, cycle-time, capacity, line-balancing, equipment-sizing, bottleneck, WIP, and buffer analyses against required production volumes and product mix.
• Provide manufacturing-process ownership for the factory layout, ensuring efficient process adjacency, material flow, minimum travel, logistics routes, maintenance access, space utilization, and future scalability.
• Define and optimize material movement, kitting, replenishment, buffering, and handover concepts between production processes and AS/RS, conveyors, AGVs/AMRs, WMS, and other intralogistics systems.
• Review and challenge engineering designs, including process assumptions, cycle times, equipment quantities, automation concepts, changeovers, capacity, layouts, and operational sequences.
• Define process-level interfaces between equipment, automation, intralogistics, inspection/testing, and digital systems, ensuring gaps and overlaps between vendor packages are identified and resolved.
• Work with Digital / IT-OT teams to translate factory processes into MES/SAP/WMS requirements, including routings, work-center logic, production execution, material consumption, confirmations, quality gates, traceability, rework, and exception handling.
• Ensure alignment between physical manufacturing processes and digital workflows, while coordinating with specialist SAP/MES teams responsible for detailed system configuration.
• Support preparation of process specifications, operating concepts, process documentation, SOP inputs, acceptance criteria, and Digital Twin / factory simulation inputs.
• Participate in FAT, SAT, integrated commissioning, and production trials. Validate actual process sequences, interfaces, cycle times, throughput, buffer behavior, and end-to-end takt achievement.
• Lead industrial engineering and process optimization during ramp-up and stabilization, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements to achieve required factory performance

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Production Engineering, master’s in business administration or related engineering discipline.
• 14+ years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, factory planning, or manufacturing-process design, including leadership of major workstreams.
• Strong experience owning end-to-end factory processes within complex discrete manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in process mapping and process design, including process flow diagrams, swimlane diagrams, value-stream mapping, and As-Is/To-Be process definition.
• Strong experience in takt-time analysis, capacity modelling, cycle-time studies, line balancing, bottleneck analysis, factory layout, WIP/buffer design, and material-flow optimization.
• Experience working with automated manufacturing systems involving machining, assembly, testing, robotics, automated material handling, or equivalent production technologies.
• Experience reviewing and challenging OEM / automation-vendor solutions from an overall factory-process and production-performance perspective.
• Experience supporting manufacturing projects through design, implementation, commissioning, ramp-up, and operational stabilization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in greenfield smart factory / Industry 4.0 / highly automated manufacturing programs.
• Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA manufacturing processes and SAP/MES integration, particularly how production orders, routings, material movements, confirmations, quality, traceability, and warehouse processes interact with the shop floor.
• Exposure to MES, WMS/EWM, production planning, Digital Twin, AGV/AMR, and automated intralogistics solutions.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, electronics, precision engineering, or other regulated discrete manufacturing environments.
• Experience in advisory to C-level executives.
• Familiarity with process-modelling and industrial engineering tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Signavio, AutoCAD, Siemens Plant Simulation, FlexSim, AnyLogic, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping, OEE, single-piece flow, pull systems, and high-mix / multi-variant manufacturing.

We provide a competitive, tax-free salary and a comprehensive benefits package in a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive work environment. Our benefits include an education allowance, free on-site meals, annual flight allowance, health coverage, relocation support (if applicable), and access to well-being activities such as sports and recreational events. Join us to drive innovation and shape the future of technology!