Industry X Production and Operations Consultant

The Opportunity

Accenture is looking to recruit Production & Operations Consultant within our Industry X consulting practice in Canada with a focus on transforming how things are made. We focus on areas such as manufacturing execution, factory automation and robotics, asset, and equipment maintenance, connected worker, virtual and augmented reality, sophisticated analytics for operational and strategic decision making, and industrial IoT - all operating within a robust and secure infrastructure - both on-premises and in the Cloud. Find out more about Industry X

This role is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield factory / plant modernization programs. You will be working closely with technology and consulting colleagues across our Manufacturing and Operations domain throughout the lifecycle of a project, right from initial scoping to design and subsequent implementation, testing and support.

We digitize, optimize, and transform our clients’ traditional ways of planning, producing, and shipping to be more agile and dynamic.

In this role you will:

• Help clients target and deliver value through the digital transformation of their factory / plant / infrastructure operations.
• Support with the front-end planning for large-scale capital projects in growing production and manufacturing industries.
• Build relationships across industry and deliver projects that provide business value including current state assessments, seeing opportunities to increase efficiency, and developing application & technology enabled solutions and providing input into business cases and journey plans, to achieve the right value led outcomes for the client.
• Design the solutions to enable future ways of working - new operating models, business functions and processes, whilst working closely with business strategists, process owners and domain experts.
• Use digital technologies to enable clients’ future-state business capabilities and drive targeted business outcomes.
• Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally, and externally. This includes receiving and providing (based on experience) coaching and career development across the IX practice.

The Person

The successful candidate will be a hands-on process / technology practitioner with good knowledge and experience in large-scale construction or capital projects, or discrete or process manufacturing environments. We seek motivated professionals who are driven by the ability to address client problems with insights and innovation, and who thrive in a highly collaborative environment where team success takes priority over individual metrics.