Operations Technology Specialist

Koch Business Solutions, LP; New Richmond (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

HSA

Life Insurance

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

Koch Business Solutions, LP is seeking an Operations Technology Specialist to guide the digital manufacturing direction for our New Richmond facilities. You will supervise site resources and collaborate with engineering, operations, and stakeholders to deliver scalable MES/SCADA solutions that enhance frontline user experience.

The role emphasizes governance, cross-site execution, and leveraging GenAI to boost development efficiency while ensuring safety and reliability of production systems.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or 3 years of relevant DB development/support experience.
• Experience leading through influence in a manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on experience supporting business-critical production applications.
• Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture decisions.
• Experience with application development and system database environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site technical design and collaborate with architecture to implement scalable applications.
• Provide hands-on mentoring to engineers and promote engineering excellence.
• Define requirements with digital team owners and coordinate multi-site execution.
• Work with platform owners and quality teams to meet governance and handle exceptions.
• Leverage GenAI to accelerate solution development and efficiency.
• Drive software quality, governance, and risk management for scalable solutions.
• Ensure adherence to governance, architecture standards, and digital manufacturing guidelines.
• Lead knowledge sharing sessions across regional and global facilities.

Skills

Leadership by influence

Production apps support

Database environments

Mobile applications

Education

CS/IS degree or equivalent

Tools

MES

SCADA

GenAI

Governance frameworks

Job description

Your Job

Are you ready to shape the future of manufacturing through modern, intuitive, high performance digital solutions? As the Operations Technology Specialist you will guide the technical direction of solutions that empower frontline workers with the right data and tools-when and where they need them.

In this role, you will engage with digital architects to build and support applications used across our manufacturing facilities, enabling people to work smarter, faster, and safer to produce quality products. You'll partner closely with operations, engineering, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, and innovative solutions that have real world impact.

Location: New Richmond - WI, USA

Our Team

You will oversee a portfolio of software-based MES and SCADA systems, ensuring they are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with Phillips Medisize's Digital Manufacturing strategy. In this role, you will guide site resources including production leads, engineers, and stakeholders to drive digital based manufacturing solutions to deliver meaningful business outcomes and enhance the frontline user experience.

You will collaborate closely with operations leaders, capability partners, and other technology teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with core systems, follow enterprise architecture standards, and support Phillips Medisize's long-term digital roadmap.

What You Will Do

• Lead the technical design from the site and partner with the architecture team to implement applications, driving scalable patterns and reusable components.
• Provide hands on technical guidance and mentorship to engineering peers, promoting modern best practices and engineering and operational excellence.
• Partner with digital team owners, operational excellence and stakeholders to define requirements, shape technical direction, and coordinate execution across multiple workstreams and sites.
• Partner with platform owners, digital/IT, and quality teams to implement governance expectations and escape exceptions as needed
• Leverage GenAI technologies to accelerate solution development and improve engineering efficiency.
• Drive software quality and technical excellence through code reviews, standards enforcement, proactive risk management, and governance oversight, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, compliant, and aligned with defined AQP validation requirements that support business and operational objectives
• Ensure all solutions adhere to established governance, architecture standards, and digital manufacturing guidelines
• Participate and lead knowledge sharing sessions to enable continuous learning across regional and global facilities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Computer Science / information systems Engineering degree OR 3-years' worth of applicable database development and support experience
• Demonstrated experience leading through influence in a manufacturing environment
• Hands-on experience supporting and maintaining business critical production applications
• Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architectural decisions
• Experience with application development and system database environments

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in developing and supporting MES and SCADA solutions
• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment
• Experience working within defined governance frameworks, including standards for development, deployment, validation, and change management
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting user-facing mobile applications with a focus on performance, usability, and scalability

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Phillips Medisize, a Molex company, collaborates with industry leaders to design and manufacture drug delivery systems, medical devices and diagnostic tools that save and improve the quality of life for millions of patients annually. With our dedicated team of 6,000+ employees in 29 locations around the world, we share our customers' mindset that every product is critical to a healthcare provider and their patients somewhere in the world. Molex is a multi-sector global electronics brand owned by Koch, Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies. Discover your potential to make a difference.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).