What are the responsibilities and job description for the MES Architect position at Kaleidoscope Innovation?
Job Description – PLM & MES Product Owner / Manager
Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite)
Experience: 5–10 years
Start: ASAP
Key Responsibilities
Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite)
Experience: 5–10 years
Start: ASAP
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the bridge between business teams, IT stakeholders, and delivery/support teams to ensure alignment on product vision and execution.
- Define and prioritize product backlog items in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Translate business requirements into clear, actionable functional and technical specifications for development teams.
- Ensure alignment with customer-specific requirements and enterprise standards.
- Facilitate communication and decision-making across cross-functional teams.
- Guide the team in resolving technical blockers through close coordination with Enterprise Architecture and other IT teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Willingness to relocate to Irvine, CA, and travel intermittently to other customer sites within the U.S.
- Strong functional understanding of PLM and MES systems, preferably within the Dassault Systèmes ecosystem:
- 3DExperience (PLM) – critical, complex implementation experience preferred
- Apriso MES
- Deep knowledge of the Discrete Manufacturing domain, ideally within the Aerospace industry.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- 5–10 years of relevant experience.
- Primarily a managerial / functional role — hands-on configuration or development experience is not mandatory, but strong conceptual and implementation-level understanding is required.
- Onsite role.
- Proven experience with 3DExperience PLM, especially in complex enterprise implementations.
- Solid understanding of how PLM and MES integrate within manufacturing environments.