Industrial & Automotive Manufacturing Engineering Manager

WHO WE ARE

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com.

THE PRACTICE

This role will align to Industry X’s Manufacturing & Operations practice. Manufacturing & Operations professionals help our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation within their core manufacturing and operations throughout the full lifecycle of their assets. With domain expertise across consulting and technology they unlock new sources of opex and capex efficiency and effectiveness. Manufacturing Consultants define and design the future state of Manufacturing companies (within the 4 walls optimization). This includes organizational, operational, and technical models to enable modernization of core operations across the breadth and depth of EHS, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Operational/ Manufacturing Excellence functions. Professionals digitize plants, sites and centers by bringing cross-facility operations at scale. Our next generation production and manufacturing methods leverage AI, IoT, automation, wearables, and predictive analytics to enable multi-site plant optimization; to increase production reliability, product quality, worker safety and sustainable operations with a more productive digital workforce.

THE WORK

Support delivery of Industrial and Automotive reinvention, with a focus on realizing complex large scale manufacturing engineering initiatives. This includes transformation of large brownfield plants, design of greenfield plants and preparing for new product launches. Apply a strong understanding of manufacturing and supply chain value levers specific to the industrial and automotive environments. This includes the implementation of new digital, AI and physical automation technologies. The automation and transformation of material flow inside industrial and automotive plants is of specific importance for this role. Manage projects or workstreams endtoend, including scope, planning, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes, while adapting to evolving client priorities. Build and apply industry, functional, and technical knowledge to support client conversations, solution development, and delivery of innovative manufacturing-led ways of working. Lead and coordinate diverse, global Accenture teams, providing day-to-day direction, coaching, and quality oversight, while leveraging AI and digital tools to improve delivery effectiveness. Establish and maintain strong client relationships at the manager, director, and senior director levels through clear communication, structured problem solving, and delivery credibility. Collaborate across Accenture Supply Chain & Engineering team to deliver integrated, endtoend solutions spanning manufacturing operations, platforms, and supply chain. Contribute to manufacturing-focused thought leadership, including client-ready materials, points of view, and case examples related to manufacturing transformation, lifecycle integration, and product launch readiness. Develop and maintain awareness of the Industrial and Automotive ecosystem, including key platforms, vendors, and emerging capabilities relevant to operations and execution. Support the evolution of Accenture’s Manufacturing reinvention offerings, with opportunities to grow into broader capability, account, or portfolio leadership roles over time. The work could include any of the following processes: Accenture’s point of view amongst clients and other key stakeholders; Business process reengineering; Lean six sigma transformation; Manufacturing & Ops Excellence; Asset reliability & performance management; Process reliability; TPM & TQM; Production planning and scheduling; Quality management; Production operations; Inventory & Material handling; Workflow automation; Reporting & Dashboarding; Advance Automation; Process Design & Simulation. Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Minimum of 5 years experience as part of a team focused on manufacturing engineering and material flow in automotive and industrial manufacturing. Demonstrated experience with leading the large scale design and implementation of material delivery routes, simulations, ergonomic considerations, IT/OT integration considerations, PFEP, business case considerations when deploying automated mobile robots (AMRs). Expertise with vendors, risk considerations, technologies in this space is of critical importance.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE

Experience with shop floor change management, performance improvement, business case and value management. Understanding of related ERP modules. Understanding of Plant Control Systems (DCS, PLC, SCADA, HMI, etc.) Experience with simulation in factory environments.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at

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