MES IT Coordinator
On-siteMonza, Lombardy, Italy
Job Summary
Coordinate MES lifecycle activities from project start through steady-state support, acting as the primary governance contact between site users, Global teams, and vendors. Build strong relationships with Operations, Quality, Validation, and IT to drive alignment on requirements, design, testing, and business process reengineering. Track site-level actions, risks, and issues with clear ownership while supporting documentation readiness, compliance inputs, and user access for shop floor devices. Log and escalate MES issues with business impact, manage change requests, and coordinate training to ensure operations remain protected from bottlenecks. Maintain clear records for decisions, knowledge transfer, and support handovers to strengthen site-level MES governance.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences, Information Technology, or related field
- Experience supporting MES implementation or site IT project coordination in manufacturing environments
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, shopfloor operations, and MES platforms
- Strong functional and technical understanding of MES applications, interfaces, user access, infrastructure, shopfloor devices, and support processes
- Experience in business process reengineering, process alignment, requirements clarification, and translating site needs into clear MES requirements
- Understanding of regulated manufacturing environments and CSV expectations
- Experience coordinating with business users, Operations, Quality, MSAT, Validation, IT, Infrastructure, vendors, implementation partners, offshore development teams, and support teams
- Ability to support users at site level during implementation, go-live, hypercare, steady-state operations, and issue resolution
- Excellent stakeholder management, coordination, communication, follow-up, issue tracking, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to develop strong relationships with Operations, Quality, MSAT, Validation, site IT, Global MES, and offshore development teams to drive alignment
- Deep knowledge of MES platforms
- Ability to manage MES governance at site level, including priorities, open issues, changes, risks, decisions, and support readiness
- Ability to drive clarity in requirements and work effectively with both site teams and offshore development/configuration teams
- Practical problem-solving approach with focus on keeping MES activities moving, users supported, and site operations protected from MES-related bottlenecks
Desired Qualifications
- Understanding of MES integration with ERP, LIMS, automation systems, barcode systems, label printing, reporting systems, and shopfloor devices
- Experience with Rockwell MES
- Knowledge of Werum PAS-X, Siemens Opcenter, or other MES applications
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