MES Functional Consultant / OpCenter

Birlasoft; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Birlasoft is seeking a Senior MES Functional Consultant with 10+ years of experience to support Siemens Opcenter implementations. The role involves translating shop-floor requirements into MES designs, documenting requirements, and guiding deployments across production lines.

You will work closely with stakeholders and Birlasoft teams to ensure successful rollout and adoption. The candidate should demonstrate strong domain knowledge in manufacturing processes, BRD creation, and testing, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, industrial engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of MES functional consulting experience, ideally with Siemens Opcenter or comparable MES platforms.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes: production execution, quality, traceability, and material/inventory flows.
• Experience preparing BRDs, functional requirement and design specifications, and test scenarios.
• Familiarity with ISA-95 and MES/shop-floor digitalization best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with experience operating in client-facing, onsite roles.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business and functional requirements for each new production line's MES rollout.
• Define use cases for work order execution, production monitoring, downtime/quality management, and traceability.
• Perform fit-gap analysis against the current Opcenter configuration and recommend functional solutions.
• Prepare functional design specifications and functional test scenarios, and support scenario/integration testing.
• Collaborate with Development, Integration, and Change Management to ensure functional designs are implementable and adoptable.
• Support training, Functional Testing, UAT, and go-live activities for each rollout wave, working closely with the Change Management function.
• Act as a day-to-day liaison between client production/business stakeholders and the Birlasoft technical team.

Skills

MES

Client-facing communication

Requirements gathering

UAT testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Siemens Opcenter

Job description

About Birlasoft

Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company’s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group’s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.

Area(s) of responsibility

Educational Background – Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Location: Any BSL Location

Job Description

Senior MES Functional Consultant : Exp Level 10+ Years

Seeking a client-facing Siemens Opcenter Discrete MES Functional Consultant to support client’s manufacturing stakeholders as the MES program scales to new production lines, translating shop-floor business requirements into MES functional designs. candidate should have sound domain knowledge of manufacturing-process , solution architecture, implementation .

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and document business and functional requirements for each new production line's MES rollout.
• Define use cases for work order execution, production monitoring, downtime/quality management, and traceability.
• Perform fit-gap analysis against the current Opcenter configuration and recommend functional solutions.
• Prepare functional design specifications and functional test scenarios, and support scenario/integration testing.
• Collaborate with Development, Integration, and Change Management to ensure functional designs are implementable and adoptable.
• Support training, Functional Testing, UAT, and go-live activities for each rollout wave, working closely with the Change Management function.
• Act as a day-to-day liaison between client production/business stakeholders and the Birlasoft technical team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, industrial engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of MES functional consulting experience, ideally with Siemens Opcenter or comparable MES platforms.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes: production execution, quality, traceability, and material/inventory flows.
• Experience preparing BRDs, functional requirement and design specifications, and test scenarios.
• Familiarity with ISA-95 and MES/shop-floor digitalization best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with experience operating in client-facing, onsite roles.