Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems & Ignition Platform

Reynolds Consumer Products; Lake Forest (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive plan (18%)

Job summary

Reynolds Consumer Products is seeking a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems to lead Ignition-based solutions across our Lake Forest, IL plants. You will own platform governance, architecture, and integration strategies to improve visibility, OEE, downtime tracking, and product quality.

The role requires deep Ignition expertise, strong project leadership, and collaboration with operations, IT, and vendors to deliver scalable, secure manufacturing solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field; equivalent Ignition experience may be considered.
• 8+ years OT, SCADA/HMI, or manufacturing systems experience.
• 3+ years Ignition development in manufacturing environments.
• Willingness to travel 30–40%.
• Ignition Core Certification is a plus.
• Experience with MES deployments, OEE/downtime routines, and production performance.

Responsibilities

• Own Ignition standards, roadmap, governance, and sustainment across sites.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support Ignition applications using best practices.
• Configure gateways, projects, security, and deployment standards.
• Build scalable Ignition and Redzone MES solutions for plant-floor and enterprise use.
• Translate manufacturing needs into architecture, dashboards, integrations, and adoption routines.
• Balance urgency, standardization, cybersecurity, governance, and change management.
• Develop Tag Historian, SQL Historian, SQL Bridge, dashboards, alarms.
• Support Redzone MES integration for OEE, downtime, and production tracking.
• Connect Ignition with PLCs, OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, ERP/CMMS, cloud and BI tools.
• Implement security, backups, monitoring, version control.

Skills

Ignition development

SCADA/HMI

Industrial automation

OEE/downtime

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree (Engineering/Automation)

Ignition Core Certification

Tools

Ignition

Redzone MES

SQL Historian

OPC UA

ERP/CMMS interfaces

Job description

Reynolds Consumer Products is seeking a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Systems to lead Ignition-based solutions across our Lake Forest, IL plants. You will own platform governance, architecture, and integration strategies to improve visibility, OEE, downtime tracking, and product quality.

The role requires deep Ignition expertise, strong project leadership, and collaboration with operations, IT, and vendors to deliver scalable, secure manufacturing solutions.