Position Description:

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (base office) Employment Type: Full time / Staff Augmentation Experience Required: 7 12 years (Manufacturing Consulting / MES / Digital Manufacturing)

Role Overview CGI Malaysia is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Business Consultant to support a key client in assessing and shaping manufacturing capabilities, process readiness and digital manufacturing improvement opportunities across production and quality operations. This role is business facing and requires strong credibility with Production Managers, Quality Managers and operational stakeholders. The consultant will lead interviews, workshops and current state assessments to identify operational pain points, document process gaps and support the development of practical recommendations for MES / digital manufacturing initiatives. The successful candidate will combine manufacturing domain knowledge, Lean / Operational Excellence thinking, strong facilitation skills and structured documentation discipline to translate shop floor realities into actionable capability models, requirements and improvement roadmaps.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

1. Manufacturing Process Assessment & Discovery

• Conduct structured stakeholder interviews with production, quality, maintenance, planning, engineering, IT and operations teams to understand current state ways of working.

• Document end to end current state manufacturing processes, including shop floor execution, production planning touchpoints, quality inspection, traceability and issue escalation flows.

• Identify operational pain points, process inefficiencies, manual workarounds, data gaps and capability constraints affecting production performance, quality and visibility.

1. Workshop Facilitation & Stakeholder Alignment

• Lead capability assessment workshops with operational stakeholders to validate current state findings and identify priority improvement areas.

• Facilitate discussions with Production Managers and Quality Managers using manufacturing language and examples that reflect shop floor realities.

• Drive alignment across business and IT stakeholders on process priorities, critical dependencies, risks, assumptions and decision points.

1. Capability Modelling & Requirements Elicitation

• Develop capability models covering manufacturing execution, quality management, traceability, production planning, shop floor visibility and operational governance.

• Elicit, structure and document high level business requirements for MES or digital manufacturing initiatives, ensuring requirements are clear, testable and linked to business value.

• Translate operational needs into process models, pain point summaries, requirement themes and recommendation inputs for solution/design teams.

1. MES / Digital Manufacturing Advisory Support

• Support assessment of MES and digital manufacturing opportunities, including where digital workflows, shop floor data capture, traceability or quality controls can improve operational outcomes.

• Collaborate with digital manufacturing, IT architecture, application and data teams to ensure business findings are reflected in solution recommendations.

• Provide manufacturing domain input into roadmap development, prioritization and business case discussions.

1. Documentation, Validation & Recommendation Development

• Consolidate interview findings, workshop outputs and process observations into clear, executive ready documentation.

• Validate findings with operational champions / OCs and relevant business stakeholders to ensure accuracy and shared ownership.

• Support development of recommendations, including quick wins, capability gaps, implementation considerations and change impacts.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Qualifications & Experience Required

• 7 12 years of experience in manufacturing consulting, operational excellence, MES advisory, digital manufacturing or related transformation roles.

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, shop floor operations, production planning, quality management and traceability.

• Experience supporting MES or digital manufacturing projects, preferably in complex, high volume or high compliance manufacturing environments.

• Experience working directly with Production Managers, Quality Managers and operational teams; able to lead credible conversations on practical manufacturing challenges.

• Strong workshop facilitation, process modelling, requirements elicitation and documentation skills.

• Ability to identify pain points, analyze root causes and structure recommendations that balance business value, operational feasibility and implementation complexity.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to operate independently in a client facing consulting environment.

Preferred Certifications / Knowledge

• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence or continuous improvement certification / training is an advantage.

• MES / MOM knowledge or exposure to platforms such as Siemens Opcenter, Camstar, SAP Digital Manufacturing, Apriso, Rockwell, GE Proficy or equivalent is a plus.

• Familiarity with manufacturing KPIs such as throughput, cycle time, yield, scrap/rework, OEE, right first time quality and schedule adherence.

• Understanding of Industry 4.0, digital thread, paperless manufacturing, eDHR/eBR concepts, traceability and shop floor data capture.

Strong Advantage

• Electronics, semiconductor, discrete manufacturing or high tech manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.

• Experience conducting manufacturing maturity assessments, capability assessments or digital roadmap workshops.

• Exposure to quality processes such as non conformance, CAPA, defect handling, inspection, batch/serial traceability and audit readiness.

• Ability to connect shop floor operational issues to enterprise systems such as ERP, MES, PLM, QMS, planning and reporting platforms.

• Strong executive storytelling skills using PowerPoint, structured issue trees, capability maps and concise recommendation narratives.

Travel & Work Style

• Base office in Kuala Lumpur, with remote collaboration and potential client site workshops as required.

• Comfortable working directly with production, quality and IT stakeholders in workshop, interview and validation settings.

• Hands on, facilitative and delivery oriented working style with strong documentation discipline and follow through.

Success Profile at CGI

• Client first consulting mindset with the ability to become a trusted advisor to manufacturing and quality stakeholders.

• Strong manufacturing business fluency and ability to translate operational realities into clear process, capability and requirement artefacts.

• Structured problem solving approach: listens carefully, separates symptoms from root causes and develops practical recommendations.

• Collaborative working style across business, IT, operations and delivery teams.

• High ownership, clear communication and ability to drive outcomes in ambiguous and fast moving environments.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking

• MES

• Team Collaboration

• Manufacturing

• Production Support

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.