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Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Expert Manufacturing Engineer & Shopfloor Management

Operations & Supply Chain ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHamburg, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed degree in mechanical engineering, production engineering, industrial engineering, or a comparable field.
  • At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in manufacturing engineering, manufacturing or assembly planning, work preparation, production, or shopfloor management.
  • Demonstrated experience independently analyzing and optimizing production processes and implementing improvements.
  • Sound knowledge of lean manufacturing and shopfloor management, such as SQCDP, 5S, Standard Work, PDCA, Kaizen, or structured problem solving.
  • Practical experience with production and shift planning, line balancing, and capacity, performance, or time-management analyses.
  • Experience with digital production systems and data; MES/MOM, SAP PP/MM, Power BI, or Skywise experience is advantageous.
  • Experience with requirements management, business acceptance testing, data validation, rollout, hypercare, and user enablement when introducing processes or technologies.
  • Practical experience with structured quality and problem-solving methods, ideally Root Cause Analysis, 8D, or FMEA.
  • Experience in stakeholder management and the ability to facilitate cross-functional workshops, decisions, conflicts, and critical implementation situations in a structured way.
  • Experience in the aerospace industry and knowledge of its production and process environment.
  • Strong process understanding, personal accountability, and consistent focus on results.
  • Very good German and English skills.

Responsibilities

  • Independently advise customers on analyzing, assessing, and optimizing complex manufacturing, assembly, and shopfloor processes.
  • Design and implement stable production and shopfloor management systems with clear metrics, control loops, and escalation paths.
  • Analyze and optimize production and shift planning, and conduct and interpret line-balancing, capacity, performance, and support analyses.
  • Lead potential and maturity assessments for work preparation, process planning, production control, and digital manufacturing processes.
  • Select, introduce, and integrate digital production solutions, such as MES/MOM, SAP-related applications, reporting tools, and data-analysis tools.
  • Define functional requirements, validate process and master data, support business acceptance tests, and manage data migration, rollout, and hypercare.
  • Apply structured quality and problem-solving methods, such as Root Cause Analysis, 8D, or FMEA, to sustainably stabilize production processes.
  • Determine standard times, plan methods, and assess work processes using MTM, REFA, or comparable methods.
  • Facilitate cross-functional workshops and coordinate systematically with stakeholders from production, manufacturing engineering, quality, logistics, IT, and management.
  • Support and develop shopfloor leaders and employees through audience-appropriate training, coaching, and sustained implementation support.
  • Manage assigned work packages or subprojects, including scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, quality of results, and management reporting.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with digital production systems and data, ideally MES/MOM, SAP PP/MM, Power BI, or Skywise.
  • Experience with structured quality and problem-solving methods, ideally Root Cause Analysis, 8D, or FMEA.

About the Company

Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Sopra Steria provides consulting, digital services and solutions to help large organizations transform their business through technology. Its offerings cover strategy, systems integration, cloud, cyber security, software development, and managed services, designed to be delivered end to end—from assessing needs and designing a plan to implementing and operating IT systems. The company combines deep knowledge of many industries with a collaborative approach to tailor projects to each client and to deliver measurable, sustainable improvements in performance. Differentiators include its European scale (about 51,000 employees across roughly 30 countries), broad scope—from strategy to operation—and emphasis on practical outcomes that help clients stay competitive. The group’s goal is to put digital to work for its clients in a way that creates a positive, more productive future for all stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1968

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