Vehicle IT Operations Lead-MES

TST Group is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the UK/European region . This role is with one of our clients in Germany who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role : Vehicle IT Operations Lead-MES

Location: Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across AMS, DevOps, enhancements & continual improvement.
• Lead due diligence, knowledge transfer, shadowing, reverse shadowing, cutover & hypercare.
• Act as the primary interface for Customer stakeholders, SIAM, plant/business owners, application owners & partners.
• Govern SLAs/KPIs, incidents, problems, changes, releases, risks & service improvements.
• Coordinate onsite, nearshore and offshore teams, value-stream leads and technical specialists.
• Lead major incident management and production recovery across logistics, sequencing, quality and shop-floor applications.
• Establish SOPs, runbooks, knowledge repositories, escalation paths and backup coverage.
• Drive automation, Shift-Left, observability, DevOps adoption, technical-debt reduction & modernization.
• Ensure security, audit, business continuity, data protection and plant change-control compliance.
• Provide executive reporting and service/transformation governance.

🔹 Must-Have Technical / Functional Skills

• Strong knowledge of production planning, body, paint, assembly, quality, logistics and vehicle release processes.
• Experience with MES/MOM, SAP, sequencing, JIT/JIS logistics, quality and shop-floor integration applications.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes – Incident, Problem, Change, Release, Knowledge & Major Incident Management.
• Experience with AMS & DevOps operating models, transition governance, SIAM integration and service readiness.
• Expertise in SLA/KPI governance, risk & dependency management, automation, AIOps and observability.

🔹 Managerial Skills

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across customers, SIAM, vendors and globally distributed teams.
• Self-driven leader with the ability to mentor teams, manage escalations and drive outcome-based delivery.