Team Lead - Digital

Job Purpose:

Job Responsibilities:

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

• Own end-to-end PLM solution
• Manage PLM roadmap, upgrades, enhancements, and system performance.
• Work with Engineering, R&D, Quality, and Supply Chain teams to align PLM processes (BOM, EBOMMBOM, change management, document management).
• Ensure integration of PLM with ERP S4HANA, MES, CAD, and other enterprise systems.
• Define and enforce PLM data governance, security, and compliance standards.

Plant Automation & Industrial IT

• Deploy & manage plant automation solution (e.g. SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, MES, historians, & IIoT)
• Lead digital manufacturing initiatives such as smart factory, predictive maintenance, energy monitoring, and real-time production dashboards.
• Ensure integration between automation systems and enterprise IT systems (ERP, PLM, BI).
• Collaborate with Operational Technology teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable automation infrastructure.
• Define cybersecurity standards for OT/ICS environments in line with IT security policies.

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Vendor management, licensing, and SLA adherence.
• Lead cross-functional digital transformation projects across plants and engineering.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budget, risks, and quality.
• Communicate with business partners to elicit, analyze, communicate, document, and validate requirements.
• Changes in business processes, revising existing system logic difficulties as necessary, policies and information systems ensuring testing requirements are met.
• Release requirement document to invite proposals for implementation and/or maintenance. Evaluate & internally recommend new technology solutions for customer facing application proposed by technology partners. Build business case in consultation with business stakeholders.
• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, technology partners and IT teams (SAP, Infra & Applications) to perform following:
• Act as business analyst for new requirements and change requests. Lead requirement gathering and BRD preparation in collaboration with the business teams.
• Track rollout deliveries as per agreed timelines & cost.
• Issue identification and timely escalation to relevant stakeholders to resolve exceptions.
• Organize scheduled functional IT reviews and provide updates on progress.
• Documentation and adherence to change control policies & procedures of software development or project management lifecycle methodologies.

Technical & Functional Skills:

• BE / B. Tech / MCA preferably from manufacturing / EPC industry.
• Techno-functional with 5+ years of experience in PLM platforms (e.g. Dassault, Teamcenter, Windchill or equivalent).
• Good understanding of CAD tools, BOM structures, and engineering change processes.
• Knowledge of plant automation systems: PLC, SCADA, DCS, MES, historians.
• Experience with system integration (SAPPLM–MES), APIs, middleware.
• Understanding of IIoT, Industry 4.0, and smart manufacturing concepts.
• Knowledge of IT–OT integrated cybersecurity principles.
• Good understanding of SAP PP/MM basics and S4HANA integration experience is preferred.
• Good verbal & written communication skills.