Associate Director, Global Manufacturing Integrations

HireLifeScience; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. seeks an Associate Director to lead the design, configuration, and sustainment of system integrations between downstream capabilities and shop floor systems (MES, PI data historians, DeltaV).

You will serve as the technical authority for integration delivery and operations across global sites, ensuring reliable data flows and scalable architectures. This role partners with operations, automation, IT/OT RunOps, data engineering, vendors, and product management to translate

Qualifications

• 12+ years in manufacturing technology or industrial systems environments; pharma manufacturing preferred.
• 5+ years in system integration, automation, or manufacturing IT/OT roles.
• Strong experience integrating MES, PI, and DeltaV with downstream platforms including scheduling, productivity, analytics, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing execution processes and shop floor data generation.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and sustain system integrations across shop floor and downstream capabilities.
• Partner with site operations and process engineers to define data mapping for scheduling, productivity, and reporting use cases.
• Establish integration standards, templates, and reusable patterns for onboarding of new sites and lines.
• Oversee execution and scale of integration solutions across global sites with minimal disruption to operations.
• Provide senior level troubleshooting and incident leadership for integration issues across manufacturing, automation, IT, and vendor teams.

Skills

Manufacturing System Integration

MES

Data Historians

Data Mapping & Contextualization

Integration Strategy

Integration Troubleshooting

SDLC

Technical Leadership

SQL

Incident Management

Change Controls

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

Ignition

OPC UA

Edge Computing

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. seeks an Associate Director to lead the design, configuration, and sustainment of system integrations between downstream capabilities and shop floor systems (MES, PI data historians, DeltaV).

You will serve as the technical authority for integration delivery and operations across global sites, ensuring reliable data flows and scalable architectures. This role partners with operations, automation, IT/OT RunOps, data engineering, vendors, and product management to translate