Analyst - Digital Manufacturing IoT

Who You'll Work With

You'll join our Riyadh office as part of McKinsey's Client Capabilities
Network and Quantum Black to help build a Digital Capability Center (DCC) to
serve clients in KSA and beyond.
The DCC provides a holistic view on digital operations across regions,
industries, and business lines, bringing leading technology providers,
research and end-users into one location, and leveraging KSA's manufacturing,
research and technology providers. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on
practicality, our teams of experts work to develop and implement operational
strategies that solve our clients' most critical problems.
As part of the practice you will work alongside a team that helps our clients
to solve complex operational challenges. Tackling challenges in manufacturing,
digital services, change transformations, product development, purchasing,
supply chain management, capital productivity and advanced analytics, our
teams combine the comprehensive business understanding that underpins all
McKinsey disciplines with practical operations expertise in a wide range of
industries worldwide.

What You'll Do

You will be committed to helping clients align manufacturing strategy to
overall business strategy and design and execute manufacturing
transformations.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to implement operating and
production systems and to drive and support implementation of lean improvement
activities on the shop floor and along the value stream- You will work to
improve the energy efficiency of manufacturing operations and enhance quality
systems. You will also build lean manufacturing capabilities in client
organizations and optimize global networks of manufacturing facilities.
You will help develop industrial IoT solutions for smart manufacturing in
cross-sector industrial applications deploying applications such as digital
performance management systems, asset tracking and condition monitoring. You
will design and execute large scale IoT solutions. You will develop the
architecture and system integration with existing hardware & software and data
storage, and design of front-end applications.
This role will give you exposure to design and build prototypes, as well as
products and systems suitable for testing and set up on test-beds. In
addition, you will take technical leadership on projects, and be involved in
the technical planning, execution and delivery of development projects for
global industry members.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in engineering; advanced degree is preferred


• ‎2+ years of hands-on experience in a high-performance manufacturing environment where your role directly lead to demonstrable performance improvement & change management


• Knowledge and experience of working with IoT platforms such as PTC Thingworx, Siemens Mindsphere, Microsoft Azure, etc.; experience deploying IoT solutions is preferred


• Knowledge of how the entire IoT stack works - from data ingestion, storage, analysis to building front-end applications which will directly impact our customers


• Experience in rapid prototyping and ideation, ideally spanning sensors and microcontroller systems / embedded devices


• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS and Azure


• Experience with APIs and integration of multiple different software solutions through an IoT platform


• Experience of manufacturing systems and processes across a range of different industries


• Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative development environment engaging in an Agile way of working


• Highly analytical


• Strong problem-solving skills


• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written