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Product Owner, Enterprise Manufacturing Systems at Land O'Lakes | LAYIQ

1. Enterprise Manufacturing Systems Strategy and Roadmap
· Own and maintain the enterprise roadmap for ERP manufacturing capabilities, plant-floor data collection, historians, integration platforms, and related digital manufacturing solutions.
· Translate Digital Manufacturing strategy into scalable system capabilities, deployment plans, standards, and governance practices.
· Define where capabilities should reside across ERP, MES, SCADA, historian, edge, integration, enterprise data platform, and analytics layers.
· Rationalize legacy or redundant manufacturing applications and drive standardization across sites where appropriate.
· Prioritize investments based on business value, risk reduction, operational readiness, technical feasibility, and scalability.
2. ERP Manufacturing Process Integration
· Represent manufacturing needs in ERP process design, including process orders, bills of material, recipes, routings, confirmations, goods issue, goods receipt, inventory movements, batch management, and traceability.
· Partner with Operations and SC Engineering teams to define how ERP manufacturing functionality should interact with MES, SCADA, historians, warehouse systems, quality systems, and data platforms.
· Improve manufacturing master data quality and governance required for digital execution and analytics.
· Support ERP transformation programs by ensuring plant-level execution needs are understood and incorporated into end-to-end designs.
3. Plant-Floor Data Collection and OT/IT Integration
· Define strategy and standards for collecting data from PLCs, SCADA, historians, sensors, equipment systems, operator inputs, lab systems, and other manufacturing sources.
· Ensure plant-floor data is contextualized with production orders, materials, assets, lines, shifts, batches, downtime events, quality results, and operational states.
· Partner closely with Controls Engineering to align on tag standards, asset hierarchy, historian strategy, connectivity patterns, data ownership, and operational reliability.
· Partner with Technology teams to establish secure, scalable OT/IT integration patterns using appropriate mechanisms such as historians, OPC, MQTT, APIs, edge platforms, or middleware.
· Partner with Manufacturing Analytics to ensure systems produce accurate, contextualized, analytics-ready data for reporting, data engineering, data science, and visualization.
4. Program Delivery, Governance, and Adoption
· Lead cross-site implementation programs including requirements, solution design, testing, deployment planning, training, change management, hypercare, and support transition.
· Establish governance forums, intake processes, prioritization methods, decision rights, and system lifecycle management practices.
· Build strong partnerships with plant leadership, operators, supervisors, quality, maintenance, engineering, supply chain, IT, and external vendors.
· Ensure systems comply with cybersecurity, access control, business continuity, data governance, and enterprise architecture requirements.
· Build and lead a capable team of software engineers, business analysts, implementation resources, and platform support partners.
Required Qualifications: · Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
· 8 or more years of experience in digital manufacturing, manufacturing execution systems, supply chain technology, or related manufacturing roles.
· Experience leading cross-functional supply chain technology programs across multiple sites or business units.
· Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production execution, material flow, quality processes, traceability, yield, downtime, and operational performance metrics.
· Experience partnering with controls engineering, plant operations, IT, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, analytics, and external vendors.
· Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable technology capabilities and practical implementation plans.
· Experience serving as a product or capability owner for digital systems, including roadmap ownership, backlog prioritization, stakeholder alignment, value realization, and governance of manufacturing technology products.
· Proven people leadership, stakeholder management, vendor management, and program delivery capability.
· Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Product Owner, Enterprise Manufacturing Systems

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