Functional Architect / Critical Manufacturing (CM) MES Expert- Onsite-Sweden

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? We're Hiring | Functional Architect / Critical Manufacturing (CM) MES Expert

? Location: Västerås, Sweden

? Job Type: Onsite

? Experience: 8+ Years

Job Description

The role: Functional Architect / CM MES Expert

As a Functional Architect, your primary focus is to flawlessly execute the deployment of Critical Manufacturing’s MES system across plants worldwide in high-tech facilities manufacturing semiconductors, electronics, medical devices, pharmaceutical or other advanced complex products. You will engage with manufacturing processes, understand customer requirements, and design solutions that improve productivity, quality, and flexibility.

What You Will Do

Lead end-to-end MES solution architecture, design, and deployment using Critical Manufacturing MES for Industry 4.0 programs. Architect and integrate end-to-end solutions involving Critical Manufacturing MES products and ensure compatibility with existing technologies.

Collaborate with business stakeholders, manufacturing engineers, quality teams, and IT organizations to define manufacturing processes and translate business requirements into scalable MES solutions.

Conduct process discovery workshops and define functional specifications, solution designs, use cases, and deployment roadmaps.

Analyze customers’ specific production scenarios and provide recommendations for MES system modeling and configuration.

Design and implement MES capabilities including Production Management, Dispatching, Genealogy & Traceability, Quality Management, WIP Tracking, Resource Management, Maintenance Integration, and Electronic Work Instructions.

Drive MES template development, multi-site rollout strategies, and manufacturing digital transformation initiatives.

Define integration architecture between Critical Manufacturing MES and ERP, PLM, SCADA, Historians, Automation Systems, Equipment Interfaces, and Enterprise Data Platforms.

Support Industry 4.0 initiatives including intelligent manufacturing, factory connectivity, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled manufacturing operations.

Lead solution validation, user acceptance testing, go-live planning, and hypercare support.

Provide functional leadership, best practices, mentoring, and governance across project teams.

Support pre-sales activities, solution demonstrations, effort estimation, and proposal development.

Work closely with customers in Semiconductor, Electronics, Medical Device, and Industrial Equipment manufacturing industries.

Collaborate closely with the Product team and development team to resolve product-related issues.

Train end users on system functionality and provide technical support for advanced product adoption.

Analyze customers’ specific production scenarios and provide recommendations for MES system modeling and configuration.

Define the functional architecture — workflows, use cases and process flows.

Document functional specification, update/create requirement specification, Test case, Execute testing in Test/Stage for developers.

Requirements: What You Will Bring

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline.

8+ years of MES experience with at least 4+ years working on Critical Manufacturing MES implementations.

Strong expertise in manufacturing operations, shop-floor processes, and Industry 4.0 initiatives.

Proven experience in MES functional design, solution architecture, and enterprise integration.

Deep understanding of:

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

ISA-95 standards

Production management

Traceability & Genealogy

Quality management

Non-conformance management

Scheduling and dispatching

Master data management

Experience with ERP integration.

Knowledge of semiconductor, electronics, medical devices, or discrete manufacturing processes.

Experience leading workshops, requirements gathering sessions, and customer-facing engagements.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Excellent communication and presentation abilities.

Experience working in global delivery and multi-site deployment environments.

Relevant Critical Manufacturing certifications and implementation experience are highly desirable.

Willingness to work from customer location in Sweden and travel based on project requirements.

Work closely with the Project Manager to deliver solutions on schedule.

? Interested candidates, please share your updated CV at ***@***.com