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Brightbeam

Senior Manufacturing Discovery Specialist

4 × 8hr days100% payHybrid · Waterford, Ireland

PERMANENT/FULL-TIME

€ Competitive, DOE

IRELAND / REMOTE-FIRST - REGULAR CLIENT TRAVEL DUBLIN, GALWAY, CORK, WATERFORD

We are looking for a Senior Manufacturing Discovery Specialist to lead discovery strategy across Brightbeam's manufacturing and industrial engagements. Not someone who wants to run a single workstream well. Someone who wants to own the end-to-end discovery approach across supply chain, engineering and maintenance, and quality – shaping solution direction, influencing senior client stakeholders, and making the specialists around them better in the process.

You will lead discovery across multiple domains and workstreams within a single engagement, coach and review mid-level specialists, and earn the trust of plant directors and operations leads based on what you find and what you recommend. If you are a recognised expert in at least one manufacturing domain, credible enough to lead across all three, and ready to set the standard rather than follow it, this role is for you.

Key requirements:

  • Recognised depth in at least one of supply chain, engineering and maintenance, or quality – and credible enough to lead discovery across all three

  • Proven ability to lead discovery across multiple operational domains simultaneously, managing scope, stakeholder complexity and team quality within a single engagement

  • Track record of influencing senior client stakeholders – plant directors, operations leads, quality heads – based on discovery findings and solution recommendations

  • Experience coaching or mentoring more junior business analysts or discovery specialists and raising the quality of their outputs

  • Strong business analysis skills: requirements, user stories, process mapping, and the ability to shape solution direction and the case for change at engagement level

  • Systems fluency across ERP, asset/maintenance, quality and laboratory, and data platforms

  • Confident, structured communicator equally at home in an executive stakeholder conversation and a detailed process walkthrough with operational staff

  • Ten or more years of relevant experience

  • Direct experience with ERP (e.g. SAP), CMMS/EAM, quality or laboratory systems, or analytics platforms such as Databricks and Power BI – desirable but not essential

  • Consulting or client-facing delivery experience on data, digital or operational transformation programmes – desirable but not essential

What we offer:

  • Lead the discovery function on Brightbeam's most complex manufacturing engagements

  • Work at the frontier of AI adoption in manufacturing – you will see transformation happen in real time

  • A genuinely mission-motivated company – we believe AI should create meaningful work, not just cut headcount

  • A fast-scaling environment where your expertise shapes the practice, not just your workstream

How to apply:

Submit your details via and include your CV with a brief cover note explaining why this role interests you, what you would bring to Brightbeam, and one specific example of how you have used AI tools to improve your work. Quality over length.

Any questions: [email protected]

Diversity & inclusion:

Brightbeam is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are happy to discuss accommodations or adjustments to our process.