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
- Deploy IoT sensors and connect older machines, using retrofit methods when native connectivity is unavailable
- Build predictive and condition-based maintenance programs, including the supporting data flow
- Integrate cobots, pick-and-place systems, palletizing, and vision inspection into existing production lines
- Capture credible OEE results and connect MES or shop-floor systems with the ERP layer
- Train operators and maintenance teams, then validate the business benefits after implementation
What you bring
- At least ten years in manufacturing automation, controls, industrial engineering, or smart-factory implementation
- Hands-on experience with PLCs, SCADA, historians, and industrial networks
- A record of retrofitting equipment that was not built for connected operation
- Experience delivering automation projects through safety work, validation, and commissioning
- The ability to make a business case and demonstrate that its promised benefit arrived
Who this fits
You’ll suit hands-on technical work in active production environments, combining controls, connectivity, automation integration, and business-case ownership. The contract runs for six to twelve months and requires weekday travel across the continental United States. Stronger alignment comes from predictive maintenance, machine vision, robotics, OT cybersecurity, or multi-site smart-factory experience.
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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