Senior MES Scheduling System Engineer

Key Responsibilities
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for DELMIA Ortems and manufacturing scheduling solutions, providing technical leadership for configuration, enhancement, integration, deployment, and production support.
• Translate manufacturing planning and scheduling requirements into scalable functional and technical solutions that support production capacity, material availability, manufacturing constraints, priorities, and operational objectives.
• Develop a strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production flows, routings, resources, calendars, capacities, constraints, master data, and scheduling rules required to generate reliable and executable production schedules.
• Analyze scheduling system behavior and manufacturing data to identify the true root cause of scheduling issues and drive sustainable improvements through system configuration, automation, data quality, and process standardization.
• Design and support integrations and end-to-end data flows between DELMIA Ortems, MES, ERP, warehouse, manufacturing, and enterprise systems.
• Lead technical activities associated with solution design, configuration, interfaces, testing, validation, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and ongoing system enhancements.
• Monitor and improve scheduling solution reliability, performance, data integrity, and usability while reducing manual scheduling activities wherever practical.
• Partner closely with Production Planning, Manufacturing Operations, Engineering, IT, MES teams, implementation partners, and software vendors to resolve complex scheduling and system issues.
• Investigate production scheduling and system issues using structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, implementing corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
• Maintain technical documentation covering system configuration, scheduling logic, master-data requirements, interfaces, operating procedures, troubleshooting, and support knowledge.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to manufacturing, planning, project, and technical teams on scheduling system capabilities and best practices.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Automation, Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 3-5 years of relevant experience in manufacturing scheduling, APS, MES/MOM, manufacturing systems, industrial software, manufacturing IT/OT, systems integration, or digital manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience implementing, configuring, integrating, deploying, supporting, or enhancing enterprise manufacturing planning or scheduling systems.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing planning and scheduling concepts, including production capacity, resources, routings, calendars, constraints, priorities, material availability, and master data.
• Ability to analyze complex manufacturing and system problems and convert business requirements into functional and technical solutions.
• Experience with system integration, databases, APIs, interfaces, middleware, data flows, testing, defect resolution, and production support.
• Strong analytical and structured root-cause problem-solving capability.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with manufacturing operations, planning, engineering, IT, implementation partners, and software vendors.
Preferred Qualifications
• Hands-on experience with DELMIA Apriso/Ortems is strongly preferred.
• Experience integrating advanced planning and scheduling solutions with MES and ERP environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL, APIs, databases, reporting, scripting, system monitoring, or data-analysis technologies.
• Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing system deployments, testing, cutover, hypercare, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, ITIL, or other structured problem-solving and delivery methodologies.