Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Systems (MES)

Location: Yonezawa-shi, Yamagata, Japan

Company

hirify.global is advancing connected manufacturing operations through a Digital Manufacturing team and an Industry 4.0 roadmap.

What you will do

• Lead Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, and MES initiatives improving throughput, quality, traceability, compliance, and execution reliability.
• Translate manufacturing requirements into MES designs, workflows, electronic records, process models, and system configurations.
• Lead MES deployment, enhancement, lifecycle support, roadmap ownership, and continuous improvement at the site.
• Drive OT/IT integration across MES, ERP, LIMS, SPC, historians, and automation platforms.
• Own complex incident resolution, root cause analysis, validation, change control, user acceptance testing, and release readiness.
• Coach cross-functional teams and site stakeholders on digital manufacturing standards and adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience delivering, supporting, or optimizing MOM solutions in manufacturing, preferably in 24/7 facilities.
• Deep knowledge of manufacturing processes, batch or discrete operations, recipe and workflow execution, electronic records, genealogy, traceability, and exception management.
• Experience with Industry 4.0, digital manufacturing, smart factory initiatives, MES integrations, ISA-95, MOM, and OT/IT convergence.
• Experience with process mapping, requirements elicitation, solution design, validation, change control, root cause investigation, and regulated manufacturing documentation.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, communication, and cross-cultural team leadership skills, including experience as an MES Lead.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or MES/MOM certification.
• Experience with Critical Manufacturing, Camline, Ignition, LabWare, or comparable MES ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Rockwell, Siemens, GE, or Keyence automation and controls technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with manufacturing, quality, engineering, automation, technical, and business teams.
• Work in a high-availability manufacturing environment with regulated production systems.
• Opportunity to improve software data quality, resolve SPC data issues, and support continuous innovation.
• Success is measured through teamwork, independent integration and testing, operational excellence, and improvements to manufacturing systems.