IT Business Partner / IT Digitalization & Innovation specialist

🎯 Role Purpose:

You will bridge the gap between technology and manufacturing. Your mission is to actively seek out opportunities to simplify, streamline, and digitalize processes within a production environment. You will design practical solutions and lead them as structured projects – in close collaboration with colleagues from IT, production, and other departments.
Your ultimate goal: make people’s work easier and help move the company toward a smart, modern factory.

📌 Key Responsibilities:

Identify opportunities for digitalization, automation, and simplification of internal processes in both production and administration.
Lead and deliver IT/digital transformation projects from idea to implementation.
Collaborate with production, maintenance, logistics, and other departments to design practical solutions.
Analyze internal user needs and translate them into technical specifications.
Monitor technology trends and apply relevant innovations in practice (Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, RPA, etc.).
Actively participate in the internal IT team – sharing ideas, supporting colleagues, and fostering innovation.

✅ Candidate Requirements:
🎓 Education & Experience:

Secondary or university degree in a technical field (e.g. IT, electrical engineering, industrial engineering).
Experience in a manufacturing environment or a company with its own production is an advantage.
Hands-on experience with project management (e.g. leading internal IT projects) – certification is not required, but practical experience is key.
Solid understanding of digitalization principles, IT architecture, and system/data integration (e.g. MES, ERP, databases).

🛠 Technical Skills:

🧠 Personal Profile:

Proactive innovator – you spot opportunities to improve things and aren’t afraid to propose solutions.
Project driver – you can turn an idea into a concrete, real-world result.
Strong communicator and team player – you can communicate effectively with both shop-floor workers and senior management.
Practical thinker with common sense, systems thinking, and resilience to routine work.