Senior Life Sciences Manufacturing AI Transformation Lead

EY; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Pension

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks a Senior in Supply Chain Manufacturing to design, build, test, and deploy digital solutions for regulated plant operations across pharma, biotech, and medical devices. You will connect production, quality, lab, engineering, and supply chain needs with deployable technology within a regulated framework.

You will own deliverables, resolve issues, and translate shop-floor observations into design or testable requirements, collaborating with operators, IT, OT, data teams, and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, manufacturing, information systems, computer science, supply chain, or related discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in Life Sciences manufacturing, manufacturing systems, automation, industrial data, systems implementation, technology consulting, or related field.
• Experience with manufacturing or quality processes in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, or comparably regulated environment.
• Experience producing technical or functional delivery artifacts, such as requirements, process maps, data mappings, interface specifications, configuration documents, test scripts, or deployment materials.
• Ability to travel as needed based on business and role requirements. Travel can range from 80-100%.

Responsibilities

• Assess manufacturing and quality workflows, user needs, system interfaces, equipment data, and current-state pain points through observations, interviews, workshops, and data reviews.
• Document process flows, user stories, functional requirements, data mappings, interface requirements, controls, and acceptance criteria for digital manufacturing solutions.
• Support design and implementation of capabilities such as manufacturing execution, electronic batch records and electronic device history records (eDHRs), recipe and routing management, batch and unit genealogy, and plant performance reporting.
• Trace information across MES/MOM, ERP, LIMS, QMS, historians, SCADA, DCS/PLC, and asset-management platforms; identify data gaps and integration dependencies.
• Develop and review equipment and batch hierarchies, source-to-target mappings, data-quality rules, and contextualized datasets with manufacturing, automation, and data specialists.
• Work with solution architects and engineers on interface specifications, APIs, industrial connectivity, and data movement between plant, edge, and enterprise environments.
• Prepare and execute functional and integration test scripts, record defects, support resolution and retesting, and maintain traceability between requirements and test evidence.

Skills

Manufacturing understanding

Manufacturing tech skills

Data & integration

Delivery discipline

Technical communication

Regulated-delivery awareness

Analytical judgment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, manufacturing, information systems, computer science, or related discipline

Tools

MES/MOM

LIMS

QMS

SCADA

Job description

EY seeks a Senior in Supply Chain Manufacturing to design, build, test, and deploy digital solutions for regulated plant operations across pharma, biotech, and medical devices. You will connect production, quality, lab, engineering, and supply chain needs with deployable technology within a regulated framework.

You will own deliverables, resolve issues, and translate shop-floor observations into design or testable requirements, collaborating with operators, IT, OT, data teams, and vendors.