What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paid Research Interviews – Batch Chemicals Automation & OT Leaders position at Lifecycle Insights?
Lifecycle Insights is an independent research and insights firm. We publish data-driven research and guidance to help engineering organizations develop better, more sustainable products — and we're currently recruiting **industry experts to participate in our research** on batch changeover practices in fine and specialty chemicals manufacturing.
We're looking to speak with automation and controls leaders — **Heads of Automation, Automation Managers, Directors of Control Systems, OT Managers, or Senior/Lead Automation Engineers** — who own the OT infrastructure: PLCs, DCS, SCADA, and MES integration. If recipe or product changes mean engineering change management headaches — control system updates that are time-consuming, fragile, and hard to test before deployment — and you feel the IT/OT integration gap and the tension between security and agility in your environment, we want to hear from you.
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**Who We're Looking to Interview**
Our research focuses on batch production (not continuous process) in fine or specialty chemical environments. Strong candidates will:
- Be responsible for automation systems in a batch chemical or process manufacturing environment
- Be directly involved in translating recipe or product changes into control system updates
- Have active batch changeover activity — NPI, recipe revision, or multi-product campaigns on shared equipment
- Work for a company with $50M in revenue, with direct production accountability (owner-operator preferred)
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**What Participation Looks Like**
This is a **paid research participation engagement** — straightforward and low-commitment. Here's how it works:
- **One-hour remote interviews** conducted via Zoom on a scheduled basis
- **Your insights inform our independent research.** What you share is one of many inputs we use to develop our own perspective — your views will not be attributed to you or shared directly with clients
- **Paid hourly** for each interview you complete
- **No disruption to your current role.** Keep your job (or your retirement) — this is purely supplemental. Our conversations focus on industry trends, processes, and practices, never anything specific to your employer
- **Starts with a brief fit conversation** to make sure the engagement works for both parties before any agreement is signed
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**About Lifecycle Insights**
We are a research firm, not a consulting or staffing company. Our mission is to produce independent, data-driven insights that help engineering organizations improve. We work with integrity — our research perspectives are formed internally, drawing on expert interviews as one input among many.
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If you have hands-on automation and OT experience in batch chemical manufacturing and an interest in contributing to serious industry research, we'd love to connect.
Salary : $150 - $200