Freelance Dcs Automation Engineer Jobs in Oregon

Deloitte offers the opportunity to work with industry-leading clients on complex manufacturing challenges. In this role, you will support organizations as they modernize operations through shop floor digitization, manufacturing execution capabilities, and digital supply chain solutions. You will work alongside experienced practitioners and client stakeholders to help define use cases, support implementation activities, and contribute to operational excellence outcomes across the manufacturing value chain.

Recruiting for this role ends on 9/30/2026.

Work you'll do

As a Consultant you will be responsible for:

• Define use cases for work order execution, electronic batch records, genealogy and traceability, and non-conformance management
• Support shop floor digitization and operational excellence programs across production, quality, maintenance, and inventory processes
• Collaborate with technical teams on system configuration and integration with enterprise resource planning, automation, and data platform environments
• Participate in testing, deployment, hypercare, training, and user adoption activities across project delivery phases
• Support development and implementation activities for manufacturing execution systems and communicate progress to leadership
• Support process integration, root cause analysis, corrective action implementation, and delivery of Smart Factory and digital supply chain solutions

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The team

Our team helps clients transform their value chains into competitive advantages. We drive efficiency, improve flexibility, and increase responsiveness through proactive insights and decision-making. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions that bring world-class supply network and operational capabilities to our clients. We provide operational know-how, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry-specific hybrid solutions to deliver unprecedented client value. Additionally, we improve operations, product, and material flow across the breadth of the value chain and create greater supply network synergy and value.

You will work closely with operations leaders, plant managers, and IT teams to design and implement solutions that enhance production efficiency, quality, visibility, and traceability across the manufacturing value chain.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering-related discipline
• 3+ years of experience in core manufacturing processes and plant floor equipment and operations
• SQL experience
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience with electronic batch records, genealogy and traceability, or non-conformance management
• Experience with enterprise resource planning, automation, or data platform integration
• Experience supporting testing, deployment, training, or user adoption activities
• Project Experience in Industrial Automation platforms (Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and/or Process Historians (real-time database)
• Apriso experience
• Experience configuring, maintaining and resolving centralized collection systems via high level communication protocols (OPC-UA/DA, MQTT, et al)
• Experience with Manufacturing Executing System (MES) configuration and implementation

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $91,100 to $179,500.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Deloitte offers the opportunity to work with industry-leading clients on complex manufacturing challenges. In this role, you will support organizations as they modernize operations through shop floor digitization, manufacturing execution capabilities, and digital supply chain solutions. You will work alongside experienced practitioners and client stakeholders to help define use cases, support implementation activities, and contribute to operational excellence outcomes across the manufacturing value chain.

Recruiting for this role ends on 9/30/2026.

Work you'll do

As a Consultant you will be responsible for:

• Define use cases for work order execution, electronic batch records, genealogy and traceability, and non-conformance management
• Support shop floor digitization and operational excellence programs across production, quality, maintenance, and inventory processes
• Collaborate with technical teams on system configuration and integration with enterprise resource planning, automation, and data platform environments
• Participate in testing, deployment, hypercare, training, and user adoption activities across project delivery phases
• Support development and implementation activities for manufacturing execution systems and communicate progress to leadership
• Support process integration, root cause analysis, corrective action implementation, and delivery of Smart Factory and digital supply chain solutions

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The team

Our team helps clients transform their value chains into competitive advantages. We drive efficiency, improve flexibility, and increase responsiveness through proactive insights and decision-making. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions that bring world-class supply network and operational capabilities to our clients. We provide operational know-how, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry-specific hybrid solutions to deliver unprecedented client value. Additionally, we improve operations, product, and material flow across the breadth of the value chain and create greater supply network synergy and value.

You will work closely with operations leaders, plant managers, and IT teams to design and implement solutions that enhance production efficiency, quality, visibility, and traceability across the manufacturing value chain.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering-related discipline
• 3+ years of experience in core manufacturing processes and plant floor equipment and operations
• SQL experience
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience with electronic batch records, genealogy and traceability, or non-conformance management
• Experience with enterprise resource planning, automation, or data platform integration
• Experience supporting testing, deployment, training, or user adoption activities
• Project Experience in Industrial Automation platforms (Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and/or Process Historians (real-time database)
• Apriso experience
• Experience configuring, maintaining and resolving centralized collection systems via high level communication protocols (OPC-UA/DA, MQTT, et al)
• Experience with Manufacturing Executing System (MES) configuration and implementation

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $91,100 to $179,500.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.