About the Role
Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) capabilities across the enterprise. This role bridges manufacturing operations, IT, and software development to ensure MES solutions deliver measurable business value in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the MES product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap aligned to enterprise manufacturing and digital transformation priorities.
- Ensure end-to-end alignment of MES with ERP (D365), planning/scheduling systems, shop floor automation, and enterprise data platforms.
- Identify and scale standard MES capabilities across sites to enable consistency, efficiency, and best practice adoption in manufacturing processes.
- Act as the voice of manufacturing operations, translating business and plant needs into clear, value-driven product capabilities.
- Partner cross-functionally with plant leadership, quality, engineering, and supply chain to prioritize high-impact use cases and solutions.
- Establish and govern business case development, prioritization frameworks, and value realization tracking to ensure measurable outcomes.
- Lead product execution by defining epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring clear definition of done and alignment with Agile practices.
- Drive backlog prioritization based on business value, risk, and strategic alignment, and actively participate in Agile ceremonies.
- Ensure MES architecture and integrations align with enterprise standards, including ERP (D365), machine connectivity (e.g., OPC/Kepware), and data/analytics platforms, in partnership with IT and architecture teams.
- Lead global or multi-site MES deployments, including UAT, change management, training, go-live execution, and hypercare, while driving user adoption and process standardization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field, or equivalent
- 5+ years in Manufacturing, MES, or industrial systems
- Experience with product management tools and methodologies, including Agile frameworks
- Excellent communication skills both with non-technical stakeholders and technical development team
- Excellent project management skills
- Warehouse/Inventory management system deployment experience preferred
- Experience with Data Analytics principles
- Experience with data management strongly preferred
- Experience in PowerBI, Tableau, or similar strongly preferred
- Eligible candidates must be a: U.S. citizen, U.S. national, person lawfully admitted for permanent residence, temporary resident under sections 210(a) or 245(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, person admitted in refugee status, or person granted asylum.
Skills
- Manufacturing domain knowledge
- Enterprise MES platforms
- Agile frameworks
- Product management tools
- Data Analytics principles
- Data management
- PowerBI
- Tableau
Location
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Other Hexcel manufacturing location
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field, or equivalent
About the Company
- Hexcel is the industry leader in the manufacturing of advance composite materials, including carbon fiber, woven reinforcements, resins, prepregs, honeycombs and engineered core.
- Hexcel (NYSE: HXL) is a global leader in advanced composites technology, a leading producer of carbon fiber, and the world leader in honeycomb manufacturing for the commercial aerospace industry.
Equal Opportunity
- Hexcel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected class.
