Solution Architect – Manufacturing Systems

🕒 September 17

🏈 Ohio, Pennsylvania, +1 more states – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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First Quality

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1993

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Healthcare Insurance

First Quality is a company dedicated to manufacturing a wide range of essential products for everyday use. Specializing in personal care products, they offer a variety of items including adult incontinence care products like briefs and protective underwear, baby diapers and wipes, feminine care products such as maxi pads and tampons, and household care products like bath tissue and paper towels. They also provide flexible packaging solutions and HD printing services. Committed to innovation and sustainability, First Quality strives to enhance the lives of their customers, partners, and communities. With a focus on healthcare and retail, they aim to make high-quality products that meet the needs of consumers and support their partners' success.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary IT advisor to Manufacturing, Quality, Warehousing, Logistics, and Automation business leaders • Develop trusted relationships with operational stakeholders • Translate business objectives into technology roadmaps and solution architectures • Facilitate strategic planning for 3–5-year technology initiatives • Manage assigned Solution Architects and their teams • Foster cross-domain collaboration and align end-to-end process flows, data models, and integration points • Prioritize skills development and knowledge sharing across teams • Align individual and team objectives with measurable business outcomes • Lead architecture and design for manufacturing applications and integrations • Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable • Develop and maintain architecture standards and reference models • Evaluate new technologies and recommend adoption • Provide technical leadership for MES, Quality Management Systems, material handling automation, industrial data historians, shop floor data collection, equipment integrations, and operational reporting and analytics • Support project teams during planning, design, implementation, and deployment • Review low-level solution designs for enterprise architecture compliance • Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies • Ensure continuity and successful transition across Plan, Build, Run • Establish architecture governance for manufacturing technology • Participate in technology standards and design reviews • Maintain documentation, diagrams, and solution roadmaps • Work with software vendors, systems integrators, and equipment suppliers • Participate in software selection and proof-of-concept evaluations • Review Statements of Work and technical deliverables • Improve system reliability, availability, and performance • Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning • Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt • Mentor solution architects, analysts, and solution engineers • Share knowledge across IT teams and encourage architectural best practices and continuous learning

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field • 10+ years of experience implementing enterprise manufacturing solutions • Experience working directly with manufacturing operations • Strong solution architecture and systems integration experience • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives • Travel across all First Quality North American sites is required and is anticipated to be 40-50% • Preferred: Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and data historians • Preferred: Quality Management Systems • Preferred: Industrial Automation • Preferred: SAP integration • Preferred: Cloud platforms (Azure preferred) • Preferred: Knowledge of Integration Capabilities • Preferred: Operational Technology (OT) • Preferred: Enterprise architecture frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities • Paid time off (three-week minimum) • Medical, dental and vision starting day one • 401(k) with employer match • Paid parental leave • Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $3750) • Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby) • Tuition assistance • Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums