Regional Industry 4.0 Project Manager

Client Background:

The client as starting with a cross-section insight of our customers’ value chain, combining expert advice, services and resources, products, equipment, and systems, recover more valuable minerals, and deliver their final products or services at the best total cost of ownership with minimal environmental impact.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with plant managers, on-site automation engineers and corporate IT and OT departments to define the requirements for Industry 4.0 projects such as: centralized SCADA, process historian, MES, and other digitized systems.
• Work with external vendors and system integrators to finalize technical specifications and design documents.
• Supervise the installation of new systems, ensuring they meet the technical specifications.
• Validate that all deliverables meet quality and operational standards.
• Ensure regional adherence to corporate IT-OT architecture, making appropriate updates when necessary to align with local needs.
• Update and maintain the digitalization roadmap for each plant in the region, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Facilitate the understanding and implementation of governance policies and computer security best practices for operational technology across the region, in alignment with corporate guidelines.
• Develop and implement strategies for monitoring, administration, and security of OT infrastructure assets, including servers, workstations, switches, PLCs, SCADA, and other machine control edge devices.
• Assist in the implementation of IoT, AI, computer vision, robotics, and cloud projects, working in collaboration with data science and engineering teams.
• Oversee CAPEX and budget planning for Industry 4.0 projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Present financial proposals, updates, and results to executive leadership for budgetary approval.

 Essential qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a related field such as Information Technology, Automation Engineering, or Computer Science. A bachelor’s degree is also acceptable.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in industrial automation or similar fields.
• Proven expertise in implementing/managing centralized SCADA, MES, process historian and/or other digitized systems.
• Solid understanding of PLCs
• Understanding of programming concepts.
• Understanding of IT and OT systems and their integration.
• Team player with good collaboration skills, strong communication abilities, excellent analytical skills, and problem-solving mindset.