Industry 4.0 Implementation Specialist
At a glance
Mid-level Solutions & Sales Engineering role at VDS Consulting Group. Remote · contract.
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What you'll do
- Connect sensors to older production equipment, including machines that need retrofit work to communicate
- Put predictive and condition-based maintenance in place and build the data flow that supports it
- Add cobots, pick-and-place, palletizing or vision inspection to existing production lines
- Capture OEE figures that match plant conditions and link shop-floor data systems with ERP
- Set up OT/IT network and security architecture, validate business results and teach crews to use installations
What you bring
- At least ten years in manufacturing automation, controls, industrial engineering or smart-factory work
- Hands-on PLC, SCADA, historian and industrial-networking capability
- Practical work retrofitting machines built without connectivity, plus automation delivery through safety, validation and commissioning
- You can defend a business case and verify the resulting benefit
Who this fits
This contractor engagement runs six to twelve months and calls for weekday travel across the continental United States. It suits a hands-on specialist comfortable working in an operating plant.
From the employer
Contract | 6–12 months | Day rate + expenses | Travel M–F, CONUS
The mandate
A narrow, technical, hands-on engagement: put connected technology onto production lines that were built before anyone used the phrase Industry 4.0, and make it produce a measurable operating result rather than a dashboard nobody opens.
What you'll own
- IoT sensor deployment and machine connectivity on legacy equipment, including retrofit approaches for assets without native connectivity
- Predictive and condition-based maintenance implementation, and the data pipeline behind it
- Robotic and automation integration onto existing lines — cobots, pick and place, palletizing, vision inspection
- OEE data capture that reflects reality rather than the number the plant would like to report
- MES and shop floor data system implementation or integration to the ERP layer
- OT/IT convergence and the network and security architecture it requires
- Business case development and post-implementation benefit validation
- Operator and maintenance training on everything you install
What you bring
- 10+ years in manufacturing automation, controls, industrial engineering, or smart factory implementation
- Hands-on capability with PLCs, SCADA, historians, and industrial networking
- Practical retrofit experience — connecting equipment that was never designed to be connected
- Automation integration project delivery, including safety, validation, and commissioning
- Ability to build and defend a business case, then prove the benefit landed
- Comfort working on the floor in an active production environment
Strong plus: predictive maintenance analytics; machine vision; robotics integration; OT cybersecurity; experience across multiple sites or a smart factory program.
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