Product Steward (Digital Manufacturing)

futureproof; United States; A distancia; USD 92.000 - 185.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Location: EU

Contract: Freelance/Contract

Start date: Sept/Oct 2026

Time allocation: 40 hours/week

Descripción de la vacante

Global Pharmaceutical Company is seeking an experienced Product Steward for IT/OT and Digital Manufacturing to standardize and govern products across global sites. The role focuses on documentation, lifecycle management, and alignment with regulatory requirements in a GMP/GxP environment.

The candidate will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, IT/OT teams, and external vendors to ensure consistent adoption of automation and digital manufacturing solutions.

Formación

• Strong OT/ICS background in regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience governing and standardizing manufacturing technology across multiple sites.
• Ability to translate site requirements into structured product documentation and standards.
• Familiarity with Confluence or SharePoint for knowledge management.

Responsabilidades

• Act as Product Steward for IT/OT and Digital Manufacturing products across global sites.
• Support governance, standardization, and lifecycle management of automation products.
• Define and maintain product standards, requirements, documentation, and best practices.

Conocimientos

OT/ICS expertise

Industrial automation platforms

PLC/SCADA/HMI

GxP / GMP awareness

Documentation governance

Herramientas

Siemens

Rockwell Automation

Confluence / SharePoint

Descripción del empleo

This is a remote position. We are looking for an experienced Product Steward IT/OT Digital Manufacturing to support a global pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. The role focuses on standardizing and governing digital manufacturing and industrial automation products across multiple manufacturing sites. The consultant will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, IT/OT teams, and external vendors to ensure that automation and digital manufacturing solutions are documented, standardized, and consistently adopted across the organization. This is not a pure hands‑on automation engineering role. The position sits at the intersection of OT, industrial automation, manufacturing systems, product governance, data stewardship, and process standardization.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as Product Steward for IT/OT and Digital Manufacturing products used across global manufacturing sites.
• Support governance, standardization, and lifecycle management of industrial automation and manufacturing technology products.
• Work with stakeholders to define and maintain product standards, requirements, documentation, and best practices.
• Translate manufacturing, engineering, and site requirements into structured product documentation and reusable standards.
• Support standardization of automation platforms, industrial control environments, data structures, naming conventions, and operational processes.
• Maintain product guides, knowledge base content, standards documentation, decision logs, and process documentation.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering teams, site representatives, OEMs, vendors, and Quality stakeholders.
• Support alignment across IT, OT, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and external delivery teams.
• Facilitate workshops, requirement‑gathering sessions, technical reviews, and stakeholder alignment meetings.
• Identify gaps in existing documentation, ownership, processes, and site adoption.
• Support continuous improvement of product governance, documentation quality, and cross‑site standardization.
• Ensure documentation and processes are suitable for regulated pharmaceutical / GxP environments.
• Help drive consistent implementation of IT/OT and digital manufacturing capabilities across sites.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) environments.
• Good understanding of industrial automation platforms, especially Siemens and/or Rockwell Automation .
• Experience with PLC, SCADA, HMI, BMS, industrial automation systems, or shopfloor production platforms .
• Experience in Digital Manufacturing , Industry 4.0 , manufacturing digitalization, or smart factory initiatives.
• Experience working in or with pharmaceutical, regulated, GMP/GxP, or highly controlled manufacturing environments .
• Strong background in product governance, process standardization, requirements documentation, and stakeholder alignment .
• Ability to work between technical teams and business/manufacturing stakeholders.
• Experience creating or maintaining structured documentation, product guides, standards, SOPs, knowledge bases, Confluence or SharePoint pages.
• Strong facilitation, communication, problem‑solving, and ownership skills.
• Ability to work in a complex global matrix organization.

Key Technical Skills

• Operational Technology / OT
• Industrial Control Systems /ICS
• Siemens automation platforms
• Rockwell Automation platforms
• PLC / SCADA / HMI
• Building Management Systems / Building Automation / BMS
• Digital Manufacturing
• Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
• Manufacturing systems / shopfloor platforms
• Data stewardship / data standardization
• Product governance
• Process standardization
• Requirements management
• Technical and process documentation
• GxP / GMP / CSV awareness
• Confluence / SharePoint / knowledge management
• Stakeholder management across IT, OT, Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality

Nice to Have

• Experience with Siemens Desigo CC or similar BMS / building automation platforms.
• Experience with industrial data models, asset models, equipment hierarchy, naming conventions or ISA‑95 principles.
• Experience with global manufacturing programs or multi‑site standardization.
• Experience with vendor/OEM coordination.
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotech, life sciences, FMCG, chemical, or other regulated production environments.

Benefits

• Location: EU
• Contract Type: Freelance / Contract
• Start date: September,/October 2026
• Time Allocation: 40 hours/week
• Global Pharmaceutical Company in Prague