Manufacturing AI Transformation Manager

EY; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is hiring a Manager in the Supply Chain Manufacturing practice to lead market-facing delivery of manufacturing transformation programs leveraging operational improvement, digital technology, AI, and advanced analytics. You will work with client executives and plant leaders to drive productivity and manufacturing agility across plant and network operations.

You will guide solution design across ERP, MES/MOM, OT, and data platforms, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure scalable delivery with

Qualifications

• Experience leading manufacturing transformation programs.
• Ability to translate client needs into solution requirements and actionable delivery plans.
• Strong knowledge of ERP, MES/MOM, SCADA, historians, LIMS, QMS, EAM/CMMS, WMS, APS, and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing manufacturing transformation workstreams and programs from opportunity shaping through design, implementation, deployment, and value realization.
• Act as the two-way liaison between design and delivery teams by translating client needs into solution requirements and translating reusable capabilities into practical engagement plans.
• Partner with the design team to prioritize solution enhancements, validate use cases, shape demonstrations, assess readiness, and define documentation, training, and support for scalable delivery.
• Capture lessons, recurring requirements, configuration patterns, technical constraints, and delivery feedback to improve the design backlog and roadmap.
• Guide solution design across ERP, MES/MOM, connected worker, SCADA, historians, LIMS, QMS, EAM/CMMS, WMS, APS, industrial data platforms, AI services, analytics and reporting environments.
• Lead functional design, configuration oversight, prototyping, testing, validation, cutover, training, change adoption, hypercare, and benefits tracking.
• Facilitate workshops and decision forums across operations, engineering, quality, maintenance, supply chain, IT, OT, cybersecurity, data, and technology-vendor stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, plans, resources, economics, risks, dependencies, decisions, quality, and executive communications.
• Lead and coach multidisciplinary delivery teams, review work products, and establish accountability for outcomes.
• Support technical sales through solution shaping, demonstrations, estimates, proposals, implementation approaches, and responses to RFPs.
• Identify follow-on opportunities based on client outcomes while maintaining trusted client relationships.
• Shape and deliver AI use cases such as predictive maintenance, quality intelligence, root-cause analysis, process optimization, intelligent scheduling, energy optimization, knowledge assistants, copilots, and AI-enabled frontline workflows.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Digital manufacturing

Delivery translation

Architecture and systems landscape

Requirements and data

Implementation leadership

Client and team leadership

Commercial and delivery management

Tools

ERP systems

MES/MOM

SCADA

Job description

EY is hiring a Manager in the Supply Chain Manufacturing practice to lead market-facing delivery of manufacturing transformation programs leveraging operational improvement, digital technology, AI, and advanced analytics. You will work with client executives and plant leaders to drive productivity and manufacturing agility across plant and network operations.

You will guide solution design across ERP, MES/MOM, OT, and data platforms, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure scalable delivery with