Remote MES Functional Analyst — Digital Manufacturing Lead

Refresco; Tampa (FL); Remote; USD 135,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Life and AD&D Insurance

Short/Long-term Disability

Pet Insurance

Legal Benefits

401(k) with Company Match

Paid Holidays

Vacation and Sick Time

Job summary

Refresco Beverages US Inc. is seeking an MES Functional Analyst to own and shape the Decide4Action (D4A) MES platform, aligning with SAP S/4HANA production, quality, and LIMS integrations.

You will work with manufacturing, quality, and labs to translate needs into scalable digital solutions and drive continuous improvement across multiple sites. The role requires 5+ years in MES/functional analysis, strong SAP S/4HANA experience, and the ability to collaborate with vendors and IT teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Manufacturing, or related discipline.
• 5+ years as a Functional Analyst or MES/Manufacturing Systems specialist.
• Experience implementing MES and SAP integration in manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the functional owner for the Decide4Action (D4A) MES platform.
• Lead MES projects, enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Define and maintain MES solution roadmaps aligned with manufacturing and operations strategies.
• Support MES deployments, upgrades, site rollouts, and system optimization efforts.
• Manage application lifecycle activities including requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment, and hypercare support.
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, and laboratory stakeholders to understand business needs and operational challenges.
• Facilitate workshops, fit-gap assessments, process mapping sessions, and requirements gathering activities.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and solution designs.
• Evaluate process improvement opportunities and recommend technology solutions that improve efficiency, quality, traceability, and operational performance.
• Ensure solutions support standardized business processes across manufacturing sites.
• Lead functional integration design and support between D4A and SAP S/4HANA.
• Support integrated business processes across SAP S/4HANA components (PEX, QM, PP, MM, WM, PM).
• Ensure accurate synchronization of processes, materials, recipes, quality data, and genealogy.
• Work with technical teams and vendors on APIs, middleware, interfaces, master data, and integration architecture.
• Support integration and process alignment between MES and LIMS platforms such as RealSPC, LabVantage, or equivalent solutions.
• Collaborate with laboratory and quality teams to improve sample management, specifications, test results, and release processes.
• Support implementation of electronic quality workflows and manufacturing quality controls.
• Ensure quality data is accurately exchanged between MES, SAP, and LIMS applications.
• Serve as the functional liaison between business stakeholders and external software vendors.
• Coordinate activities with system integrators during project delivery and enhancement initiatives.
• Review functional designs, technical specifications, estimates, and project deliverables.
• Participate in vendor performance reviews and roadmap discussions.
• Ensure vendors deliver solutions that meet business, quality, and architectural standards.
• Lead end-to-end project activities including business case development, requirements gathering, functional design, configuration oversight, testing, training, cutover planning, go-live support.
• Support Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project methodologies.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Provide status updates to business and IT leadership.
• Develop and coordinate functional test scripts, integration testing, UAT, and regression testing.
• Support validation activities for regulated environments where required.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements prior to deployment.
• Provide Level 2 and Level 3 functional support for MES-related incidents and service requests.
• Analyze recurring issues and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Monitor system performance, user adoption, and manufacturing KPIs.
• Identify opportunities for automation, improved traceability, OEE improvements, and reduction of manual processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing and quality processes.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Solution Architects to ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Participate in future-state manufacturing architecture planning.
• Evaluate emerging MES, IIoT, AI, machine learning, and digital manufacturing capabilities.
• Contribute to the development of manufacturing technology roadmaps and digital transformation initiatives.

Skills

MES expertise

Functional analyst

SAP S/4HANA

Project leadership

Process mapping

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering/Manufacturing

Tools

D4A MES

SAP S/4HANA

LIMS (RealSPC/LabVantage)

TrakSYS/LineView

Job description

Refresco Beverages US Inc. is seeking an MES Functional Analyst to own and shape the Decide4Action (D4A) MES platform, aligning with SAP S/4HANA production, quality, and LIMS integrations.

You will work with manufacturing, quality, and labs to translate needs into scalable digital solutions and drive continuous improvement across multiple sites. The role requires 5+ years in MES/functional analysis, strong SAP S/4HANA experience, and the ability to collaborate with vendors and IT teams.