Lead MES Designer - 1099/W2

This role requires a Siemens OpCenter practitioner who can take a BPM/BPD and turn it into a fully validated, production-ready PI. The Lead Designer owns the end-to-end design lifecycle for their assigned workstream: blueprinting, PI configuration in OpCenter, show-and-tell facilitation, Design Review Checklist (DRC) authorship and execution, Test-PI and sMBR development, master data creation, and testing/validation support through to PROD readiness. This is not a staffing role where someone follows a script — GSK will be actively reviewing design decisions and the Lead Designer must be able to defend them in a room with Process Owners, QA, and Operations.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Siemens OpCenter Execution Pharma (SIMATIC IT) configuration experience — including PI design, recipe/phase logic, sMBR development, and master data management
• Direct experience designing and validating eBR/MES PIs in an FDA-regulated pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical environment
• Experience authoring and executing Design Review Checklists (DRCs) and Validation Forms for MES PIs in a GMP context
• Experience building Test-PIs and master sBRs (sMBRs) aligned to BPM/BPD Use Cases and production requirements
• Working knowledge of MES master data structures: workcenters, equipment instances, classes, properties, statuses, and their relationships to SAP and OSI-PI interfaces
• Familiarity with transport request management across TEST, VAL, and PROD MES environments — including coordination with a COE or IT team for transport execution
• Experience working directly with GSK-provided or equivalent Business Process Maps (BPMs) and Business Process Detail documents (BPDs) as primary design inputs
• Ability to participate in and facilitate show-and-tell sessions with cross-functional stakeholders and incorporate feedback into iterative design
• Proficiency with Kneat or equivalent electronic validation management system for validation protocol authorship and incident management
• Proficiency with Veeva VQD or equivalent for MES Specification File creation and management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Weigh & Dispense PI design or scale integration in a pharma MES context (relevant to this engagement's custom Sub-PI requirement)
• Experience on a multi-workstream, parallel MES implementation with a formal project schedule and milestone commitments
• Familiarity with SAP-to-MES and OSI-PI-to-MES interfaces in a pharma production environment
• Experience executing formal E2E water runs and engineering runs in a TEST and/or PROD MES environment
• Prior GSK, Pfizer, Lilly, Novartis, AstraZeneca, or other large pharma MES experience

Key Tools & Platforms

Siemens OpCenter Execution Pharma (required, hands-on)  |  Kneat (required)  |  Veeva VQD (required)  |  SAP (awareness)  |  OSI-PI / PI System (awareness)  |  MS Project (awareness)  |  Microsoft Teams / SharePoint