Senior Manufacturing Transformation & Ops Excellence Lead

EY; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in the United States seeks a Senior in the Supply Chain Manufacturing practice to help clients establish, optimize, and transform manufacturing operations by combining manufacturing knowledge with technology delivery skills.

You will work with client stakeholders, plant teams, engineers, IT and OT, translating needs into deployable capabilities that improve productivity, reliability, and visibility across the manufacturing landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 2–4 years in manufacturing, supply chain, industrial technology, systems implementation, consulting, or related environment.
• Experience explaining how technology supports operational processes and business outcomes.
• Experience producing structured delivery artifacts such as process maps, requirements, user stories, functional designs, test scripts, training materials, deployment plans, or status and risk reporting.
• Ability and willingness to travel to manufacturing sites (80–100%).

Responsibilities

• Lead or support client-facing manufacturing transformation workstreams and define clear, executable project deliverables.
• Assess manufacturing processes, pain points, performance gaps, user needs, data flows, and technology constraints across plant environments.
• Translate manufacturing business and operations requirements into functional designs, user stories, process flows, data requirements, integration requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
• Configure, prototype, test, or support deployment of digital manufacturing solutions in partnership with client technical teams and technology vendors.
• Connect plant-floor use cases with enterprise and operational systems, including ERP, MES/MOM, connected worker platforms, historians, SCADA, quality, maintenance, laboratory, warehouse, planning, and analytics solutions.
• Support solution architecture and integration discussions across IT and OT environments, including system interfaces, master data, transactional data, equipment data, and reporting needs.
• Plan and execute functional testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover, training, hypercare, and benefits tracking.
• Facilitate workshops with operators, supervisors, engineers, quality, maintenance, supply chain, IT, and leadership stakeholders.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, decisions, and issues; communicate status and recommendations clearly to client and engagement leadership.
• Coordinate tasks for junior team members, review work products, and contribute to a high-quality, collaborative delivery environment.
• Support account teams with solution shaping, technical sales, demonstrations, estimates, proposals, and responses to requests for proposals.

Skills

Manufacturing Transformation

ERP/MES Integration

Data & Analytics

Workshop Facilitation

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

MES/MOM

ERP systems

SCADA & historians

QMS/EAM/CMMS

Job description

EY in the United States seeks a Senior in the Supply Chain Manufacturing practice to help clients establish, optimize, and transform manufacturing operations by combining manufacturing knowledge with technology delivery skills.

You will work with client stakeholders, plant teams, engineers, IT and OT, translating needs into deployable capabilities that improve productivity, reliability, and visibility across the manufacturing landscape.