Head of MES (Manufacturing Execution System)

Purpose
- To lead the MES strategy, design, implementation, integration, operation, and continuous improvement to ensure reliable, compliant, and optimized of MES solutions for our Battery Manufacturing facilities covering production lines.
- The role will act as a bridge between Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Automation, IT, and Digitalization teams to ensure real-time production visibility, process/product traceability, asset genealogy, process control, quality compliance, and manufacturing excellence.
- The candidate will be responsible for MES project execution during greenfield/brownfield plant setup, system commissioning, integration with enterprise systems, and ongoing operational support.

Key responsibilities

MES Strategy & Digital Manufacturing
- Define and implement the MES roadmap aligned with business and manufacturing objectives, set standards, templates, adopt best practices across all manufacturing units and develop governance for release, change, and data integrity. Support in audit and compliances,



establish battery passport.
- Ensure end-to-end digital traceability across battery manufacturing process from raw material sourcing/manufacturing to Cell, Module, Pack, and BESS manufacturing processes. Develop dashboards and reports for OEE, yield, throughput, scrap, rework, downtime, equipment utilisation, root cause analysis, etc
- Architecture & integrations: Drive MES architecture, data model, interfaces (API/OPC-UA/MQ), historization of the data, end to end process/product traceability and ensure robust connectivity with OT/IT systems.

MES Project Implementation & Commissioning
- Lead MES deployment, configuration, testing, validation, commissioning, and go-live activities. Translate manufacturing processes into MES workflows, manage EBR/recipes/work orders configuration, and oversee MES test/validation (IQ/OQ/PQ where applicable).
- Work closely with EPC, automation vendors, machine suppliers,

📌 Head of MES Manufacturing Execution System (Valsad)
🏢 Waaree Energies
📍 Valsad