Director, Manufacturing Systems & AI-Enabled Apps

NEOTech

Los Angeles (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) with company match

Life/AD&D insurance

Short-term/long-term disability

Paid holidays

Job summary

NEOTech is seeking a Director of Business Systems & Manufacturing Applications to lead ERP/MES platforms, BI/reporting, and AI-enabled initiatives. You will own the roadmap, govern data and processes, and build a small internal AI development team across Epicor, Aegis, and BI to drive automation and analytics that deliver measurable business value.

The role requires onsite work across Chatsworth, CA; Carlsbad, CA; Longmont, CO; or Westborough, MA with a hybrid schedule and strategic

Qualifications

10+ years of ERP, MES, or business systems leadership in manufacturing.
Multi-site manufacturing experience with plant-level operational exposure.
Direct experience with ERP modernization, upgrade, stabilization, or migration programs.
Working knowledge of MES/shop-floor systems, preferably Aegis or comparable platforms.
Experience in regulated manufacturing environments such as medical, aerospace, defense, or high-reliability industrial manufacturing.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional business process standardization.
Experience managing vendors, systems integrators, and outsourced IT providers.
Strong executive communication and practical decision-making skills.
Hands-on technical depth in software development and/or ERP customization (e.g., Epicor BPMs, dashboards, integrations).
Experience directly managing software developers, engineers, or analysts.
Ability to travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

Execute the Business Systems Strategy approved by IT Executive Management.
Own the execution roadmap for ERP, MES, BI/reporting, integrations, AI-enabled business systems capabilities, and related manufacturing applications.
Translate approved business systems strategy and business goals into system priorities, process improvements, delivery plans, governance routines, and executable roadmaps.
Actively support IT Executive Management in defining, refining, and governing Business Systems Strategy by providing operational insight, platform analysis, process impact assessments, risk views, and implementation considerations.
Prepare fact-based recommendations for IT Executive Management on future platform options, recognizing that current systems may not automatically remain the long-term enterprise standard.
Maintain visibility to priorities, dependencies, risks, sequencing, resource needs, vendor requirements, and business readiness across business systems initiatives.
Ensure business systems execution supports organic growth, operational improvement, manufacturing standardization, AI-enabled productivity opportunities, and future acquisition integration.
Drive standardization where appropriate across plants while documenting justified local exceptions.
Prioritize upstream fixes that improve planning, demand signals, inventory, routings, BOMs, costing, and production execution.
Own execution of the approved business roadmap for Aegis and related shop-floor systems.
Ensure MES decisions align with Epicor, quality, traceability, production, engineering, and compliance needs.
Lead process design across quote-to-cash, plan-to-produce, procure-to-pay, engineer-to-order/NPI, inventory, quality, finance, and costing.
Define standard process models that can scale across divisions, plants, and acquisitions.
Ensure business process decisions are documented and governed before system changes are approved.
Own business data definitions and reporting governance across Epicor, Aegis, BI, and future systems.
Protect critical reporting during upgrades and establish a single-source-of-truth approach for key metrics.
Partner with BI/data resources to improve reporting integrity and executive visibility.
Within the AI governance, cybersecurity, data protection, and platform direction established by IT Executive Management, build and lead a small internal development team focused on engineering AI-enabled solutions for the business.
Establish a disciplined intake, prioritization, and delivery model for AI and automation initiatives tied to sponsors, success metrics, and ROI.
Set technical direction for the development team — architecture, tooling, code quality, data access, security, and integration patterns.
Recruit, develop, and retain developers and AI/automation engineers; balance in-house build vs. vendor delivery.
Ensure AI and automation solutions are built responsibly with human review, auditability, and compliance with ITAR/CUI, customer, and regulatory requirements.
Provide business systems oversight for partners to ensure vendor execution aligns with NEOTech-approved strategy.
Define requirements, acceptance criteria, escalation paths, and performance expectations.
Reduce single-vendor dependency by building internal knowledge and decision rights.
Develop a repeatable approach for evaluating acquired companies’ ERP, MES, BI, quality, and shop-floor systems.
Support diligence, integration planning, coexistence, rationalization, and standardization decisions.
Create playbooks for system integration and transition without disrupting manufacturing operations.
Ensure system roadmaps account for aerospace, defense, medical, quality, traceability, and regulatory expectations.
Partner with Quality, Operations, Security, and Compliance on ITAR/CUI, auditability, access, controls, and documentation.
Make system risks visible to executive leadership with practical mitigation plans.
Travel up to 50%.