Role overview

Qualifications

6–8 years of progressive industry and/or consulting experience in Manufacturing, Industrial/Consumer Goods, FMCG, FB, Chemicals/Process, Energy, or Automotive
Extensive hands-on functional experience (at least 4–5 years) in implementation or improvement engagements of plant-facing software for Fortune 500 companies
Deep domain understanding of manufacturing and asset management fundamentals
Strong educational background from reputed engineering and management schools

Responsibilities

Independently own end-to-end functional delivery of digital manufacturing / Industrial AI workstreams
Prepare functional specifications, use-case definitions, asset hierarchies, and configuration workbooks
Demonstrate ability to liaison between business stakeholders and data science/engineering/IT-OT teams throughout the project lifecycle
Support change management activities to prepare the client for deployment and adoption

Key facts

Remote from: India
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Hard skills

Industrial Automation SAP CO Aveva InTouch Idms Lean Warehousing SQL (Programming Language) Python (Programming Language) Power BI Artificial Intelligence

Other skills

Digitization
Communication
Negotiation
Teamwork
Planning

About the company

Thoucentric

Thoucentric is a niche management consulting company that uses relevant digital and functional domain expertise to solve problems in Supply Chain, Sales & Distribution, and Finance. The consulting framework of Thoucentric integrates subject matter expertise, technological understanding, structured project management, and governance. As a result, our consultants have a natural advantage over the traditional consultant, who concentrates solely on advisory services. Our consulting capabilities have been institutionalized and anchored by the industry senior partners “who have been there and done that” as people in environments like our clients’, this has allowed us to create teams who can act naturally as extensions of our client’s teams. In our problem-solving journey, we stay aware of the evolving technology landscape through partnerships with the best in the business. Thoucentric collaborates with our technology partners to develop strategies, and our consultants work on end-to-end projects incorporating these world-class technologies. In the process, we have built a state-of-the-art digital workforce of data scientists, engineers, and visualization experts, creating solutions for clients who want to develop point solutions themselves. Thoucentric Labs’ successful product launches in the areas of demand forecasting, predictive quality, business scenario planning, and commodity price forecasting validate our excellent problem-solving skills.

Company details

Company typeScaleup

Company size201 - 500

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Job description

About Thoucentric:

Thoucentric is a niche management consulting firm focused on helping organizations overcome business challenges, maximize growth & overall performance through effective problem solving, efficient people, process, and technology solutioning, end to end execution and management.

We help clients with Business Consulting, Program & Project Management, Digital Transformation, Product Management, Process & Technology Solutioning and Execution including Analytics & Emerging Tech areas cutting across functional areas such as Supply Chain, Finance & HR, Sales & Distribution.

We are a group of seasoned professionals having diverse industry, solution and product experience thereby making us effective business liaisons. We are 300+ consultants strong coming with strong diverse background fueling our growth story in India and across four other global locations viz. US, UK, Singapore, and Australia.

Thoucentric is an ‘Ethos’ that epitomizes the essence of being a good human… living a life of purpose… being life itself! We are an extension of ourselves together! We breed the basic human values of trust, freedom, nimbleness, compassion, integrity, passion, persistence & conviction.

Job Title: Senior FunctionalConsultant: Digital Manufacturing & Industrial AI

Job Overview: This rolerequires the individual to assist manufacturing clients in plant digitalizationand Industrial AI initiatives ranging from asset performance and reliabilityimprovement, operational excellence, and smart factory programs toimplementation of plant-facing software platforms (APM, MES, EAM/CMMS,Industrial AI/analytics) at a global scale.

He/she is responsible for frontending with client business stakeholders, translating operational requirementsinto functional designs, use-case definitions, and platform configurations.He/she will be working closely with data/AI and integration teams to delivermeasurable business value. He/she should have strong analytical skills and theability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts ofinformation with attention to detail and accuracy. He/she would work withcross-functional teams and business leads to ensure quality of deliverables,manage risks or escalations, and seek support on roadblocks.

Job Description:

• Independently own end-to-end functional delivery ofdigital manufacturing / Industrial AI workstreams from use-case discovery andrequirement gathering through solution design, platform configuration,validation, go-live, and adoption

• Prepare functional specifications, use-casedefinitions, asset hierarchies, and configuration workbooks; perform hands-onfunctional configuration of APM and Industrial AI platforms with strongknowledge of MES/EAM/CMMS systems

• Proficiency in mapping and analysing clients’end-to-end manufacturing and asset lifecycle processes to contextualizeplant-level pain points within broader operational and supply chain frameworks

• Demonstrate ability to liaison between businessstakeholders and data science/engineering / IT-OT teams throughout the projectlifecycle, including definition of data requirements and integrationtouchpoints with historians, SCADA, MES, EAM/CMMS, and ERP systems

• Validate AI/analytics outputs with business users, eadfunctional testing, model output validation from a domain lens, UAT, andbusiness sign-off prior to deployment

• Align with key stakeholders (Plant Operations Leads,Reliability & Maintenance Leads, Business Leads, Delivery Leads, andothers) on solution decisions, deployment plans, and adoption readiness

• Support change management activities to prepare theclient for deployment and adoption (super-user training, SOP and workflowupdates, operating model and organizational alignment, communications)

Must have:

• 6–8 years of progressive industry and/or consultingexperience in Manufacturing, Industrial/Consumer Goods, FMCG, F&B,Chemicals/Process, Energy, or Automotive, with a primary focus on manufacturingoperations, reliability/maintenance, or plant digitalization

• Extensive hands-on functional experience (at least4–5 years) in implementation or improvement engagements of plant-facingsoftware for Fortune 500 companies: APM/predictive maintenance, MES/MOM,EAM/CMMS, or industrial analytics platforms including at least two full-cycledeployments in a functional consultant/lead capacity

• Working and hands-on knowledge of best-in-class plantsystems and platforms e.g. SAP PM/EAM, Maximo, GE APM, AVEVA, Siemens Opcenter,or equivalent Industrial AI/APM platforms along with working knowledge of ERPmaintenance and production flows

• Deep domain understanding of manufacturing and assetmanagement fundamentals, asset hierarchies and criticality, failure modes(FMEA/RCM), maintenance strategies and workflows, OEE and loss analysis,production planning and shop-floor execution

• Strong negotiation skills, good interpersonal skills,and ability to work in a cross-functional global organization, engagingconfidently with US / European clients

• Strong stakeholder management skills & the abilityto work with remote teams

• Experience in analyzing clients’ processes andoperational/plant data to identify opportunities, develop insights, and preparea business case and value tracking approach to deliver transformationalprojects within the manufacturing area

Good to have:

• Certification such as CMRP, CRL, CSCP/CPIM, or SixSigma / Lean Manufacturing credentials is a plus

• Exposure to plant data landscapes historians (e.g.OSIsoft PI, Aspen IP.21), SCADA/OT data, IIoT platforms and to Industry 4.0 /smart factory programs

• Working literacy in SQL/Python for data validation (notmodel development) and familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI orsimilar); exposure to AI/ML and agentic AI-enabled manufacturing use cases isan added advantage

Educational Qualifications:

Strong educational backgroundfrom reputed engineering and management schools

Requirements

You Are A Good Fit If This Sounds Like You:

Ability to cope in a complex and fast-changing business environment and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation.

Works independently on complex processes and modules that may be used by one or more programs or systems.

Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.

Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.

Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.

Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.

Clear decision-making ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues

Kindly note that we are working in a Hybrid Mode with base location in Bengaluru, Karnataka, this is not a remote role.