Associate Director, Manufacturing Systems Integration

We're seeking an experienced technical leader to join our team in an Associate Director level role, responsible for building, configuring, and ongoing sustainment of system integrations between downstream capabilities and shop floor manufacturing systems, including MES, OT data historians (e.g., AVEVA PI), and process control systems (e.g., DeltaV).

Reporting to the Operations Orchestration Product Manager, this role also serves as the technical authority for integration delivery and operations, ensuring reliable performance of integrations and supporting infrastructure across global sites.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of manufacturing operations, automation, and product engineering, partnering closely with site teams, IT and OT RunOps, data engineering, product vendors, and product management to ensure our platforms are powered by accurate, timely, and well contextualized data.

Manufacturing downstream capabilities, including scheduling, productivity, and operational reporting, are only as effective as the data that supports them. Your leadership will ensure that critical production data is consistently and reliably connected to these platforms, enabling trusted insights that improve throughput, quality, visibility, and decision making across our global manufacturing network, ultimately supporting the delivery of life changing therapies to patients.

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• 12+ years of experience in manufacturing technology or industrial systems environments; pharmaceutical manufacturing experience strongly preferred.

• A minimum of 5 years in system integration, automation, or manufacturing IT/OT roles.

• Strong experience integrating upstream systems such as MES, PI, and DeltaV with downstream platforms including scheduling, productivity, analytics, and reporting.

• Solid understanding of manufacturing execution processes and shop floor data generation.

• Demonstrated experience in data mapping and contextualization across manufacturing systems.

• Proficiency in SQL and relational database concepts, with experience querying and transforming manufacturing and operational data for downstream applications.

• Working familiarity with manufacturing data ecosystems including MES, data historians, and process control environments.

• Familiarity with modern integration technologies including APIs, OPC UA, streaming, and edge to cloud data flows.

• Awareness of emerging manufacturing technologies including Ignition and Industry 4.0 approaches.

• Understanding of IT infrastructure considerations affecting industrial data systems.

• Experience with SDLC practices and computer system validation concepts.

• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities across global teams.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field preferred.

• Manufacturing System Integration, MES, Data Historians, Data Mapping and Contextualization, Integration Strategy and Execution, Integration Troubleshooting, Manufacturing Data Flows, SQL, Incident Management, Change Controls, SDLC, Technical Leadership

• Global manufacturing environments, pharmaceutical operations, distributed delivery models, modern integration protocols, Ignition platform familiarity, OPC UA, edge computing concepts, OEE and productivity systems, real time scheduling systems

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This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.  Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

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