AI-Driven Manufacturing Transformation Manager

EY; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 128,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Pension / 401(k)

Job summary

EY is seeking a Manager in our Supply Chain Manufacturing practice for a global client-facing role in the United States. You will lead manufacturing transformation programs combining operational improvement, AI, and digital technology to boost productivity, reliability, and agility across plant and network operations.

You will coordinate with executives, operators, engineers, and IT/OT teams to design and deploy scalable solutions, governance, and knowledge platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, operations, information systems, computer science, business, or a related field.
• At least 4 to 6 years of relevant experience in digital manufacturing, manufacturing operations, supply chain, industrial technology, systems implementation, consulting, or a related environment.
• Experience shaping or delivering AI, advanced analytics, or knowledge-enabled solutions within manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, quality, maintenance, or industrial operations.
• Experience working with manufacturing data models, semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, RAG solutions, or comparable approaches for contextualizing and governing operational data.
• Experience translating AI use cases into data, knowledge, architecture, integration, security, evaluation, adoption, and value-realization requirements.
• Experience leading client-facing workstreams or projects that connect manufacturing processes with technology implementation.
• Experience translating between functional stakeholders and technical teams, with ownership of delivery artifacts such as process maps, requirements, functional designs, data mappings, interface requirements, test strategies, deployment plans, or value cases.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, delivery plans, project risks, quality, and stakeholder communications.
• Ability and willingness to travel to client and manufacturing sites as required by engagement needs. Travel can range from 80-100%.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence business, engineering, IT, OT, vendor, and leadership stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing manufacturing transformation workstreams and programs from opportunity shaping through design, implementation, deployment, and value realization.
• Act as the liaison between design and delivery teams by translating client needs into solution requirements and reusable capabilities into engagement plans.
• Partner with the design team to prioritize solution enhancements, validate use cases, and define documentation, training, and support for scalable delivery.
• Capture lessons and patterns from engagements and feed them into design backlog and roadmap.
• Guide solution design across ERP, MES/MOM, connected worker, SCADA, historians, LIMS, QMS, EAM/CMMS, WMS, APS, cloud and edge platforms.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

AI-enabled manufacturing

Digital manufacturing

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Client leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

ERP

MES/MOM

SCADA

QMS

EAM/CMMS

WMS

LIMS

Data platforms

Knowledge graphs

Job description

EY is seeking a Manager in our Supply Chain Manufacturing practice for a global client-facing role in the United States. You will lead manufacturing transformation programs combining operational improvement, AI, and digital technology to boost productivity, reliability, and agility across plant and network operations.

You will coordinate with executives, operators, engineers, and IT/OT teams to design and deploy scalable solutions, governance, and knowledge platforms.