Manufacturing Execution Specialist

Puffer Sweiven

Stafford, TX

Estimated pay: Est. $45–$54/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

**Company Description:**

For over 80 years, Puffer-Sweiven has set the standard in equipment and services for process control, automation, safety, and reliability. We help process-intensive facilities run more efficiently and safely by delivering quality products, technical support, and knowledgeable staff to implement the needed process solutions — with the goal of exceeding customer expectations. Our dedication brings the most advanced products and services to our customers throughout the Central and Gulf Coast regions of Texas.

**Specialties:**

As an Emerson Impact Partner, we offer a broad base of superior solutions including the top product lines for a given application. Our specialties at Puffer-Sweiven include:

• Process Control & Safety Systems
• Control Valves & Regulators
• Isolation Valves & Actuation
• Oil & Gas Automation
• Reliability Solutions & Services
• Pressure Management
• Specialty Pumps & Rotating Equipment
• Instrumentation
• Maintenance & Repair Services

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**MES Solution Design and Configuration**

• Design, configure, and implement Emerson Syncade MES applications in accordance with approved customer requirements, site standards, and project execution practices.
• Develop electronic workflows, electronic batch records, forms, procedures, recipes, equipment models, material definitions, and business rules within the MES platform.
• Participate in manufacturing process mapping, requirements workshops, solution design reviews, and technical discussions with customers and project stakeholders.
• Translate manufacturing and business processes into functional MES solutions that support safe, consistent, and efficient operations.
• Develop and maintain configuration documentation, design specifications, test records, and system turnover documentation.
• Apply ISA-88 and ISA-95 principles, as applicable, to support batch execution, equipment modeling, recipe management, and integration between enterprise and control systems.

**Project Execution and Documentation**

• Participate in project planning, estimating, scheduling, resource coordination, progress reporting, and risk identification for assigned MES scope.
• Develop, review, and execute project deliverables, including User Requirements Specifications (URS), Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Design Specifications (DS), Configuration Specifications, traceability documentation, and test scripts.
• Coordinate assigned work with Project Managers, Technical Leads, Automation Engineers, validation resources, customer representatives, and third-party suppliers.
• Communicate project status, technical issues, risks, and resource needs in a timely manner.
• Perform work in accordance with Puffer-Sweiven project execution, quality, cybersecurity, and documentation practices.
• Support management of change and configuration control throughout the system lifecycle.

**System Integration**

• Configure and support interfaces between Syncade and manufacturing systems such as Emerson DeltaV, PLC-based control systems, historians, ERP systems, LIMS, quality systems, and other plant applications.
• Collaborate with automation and OT/IT resources to define interface requirements, data exchange, equipment status, production events, alarms, and system handshakes.
• Support industrial communication technologies, databases, web services, OPC connectivity, and other integration methods used within the customer architecture.
• Assist with troubleshooting of application, interface, infrastructure, and data issues across integrated systems.

**Testing, Validation, and Startup**

• Develop and execute unit testing, integration testing, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), commissioning, and startup activities.
• Support Computer System Validation (CSV) activities and preparation or execution of IQ/OQ/PQ documentation, as required by the customer and project.
• Ensure MES deliverables support applicable GxP requirements, GAMP 5 guidance, 21 CFR Part 11, applicable Annex 11 expectations, and customer data integrity requirements.
• Document, investigate, and resolve software defects, test exceptions, deviations, and punch-list items.
• Provide onsite and remote support during installation, cutover, startup, and production stabilization.
• Support system backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and lifecycle planning activities as assigned.

**Customer Support and Continuous Improvement**

• Interface professionally with customer operations, engineering, quality, validation, maintenance, IT, and leadership personnel.
• Provide operator, engineering, and system administrator training for delivered MES solutions.
• Provide post-startup support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action recommendations.
• Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, usability, standardization, maintainability, and customer value.
• Maintain current technical knowledge through Emerson tra