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# Industry 4.0 Implementation Specialist

- **Company:** VDS Consulting Group
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Vision, Cyber Security, Data Systems, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Systems Integration, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/industry-4-0-implementation-specialist-houston-tx--f6c8164d-a733-4b50-9383-d520d017877e

## About the Role

Reporting Dashboards, Internet of Things, Retrofit, Data Management, Automation, Pallet Jack, Data Collection, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), System Integration (SI), Security Architecture, * 10+ years in manufacturing automation, controls, industrial engineering, or smart factory implementation

 * Hands-on capability with PLCs, SCADA, historians, and industrial networking
 * Practical retrofit experience - connecting equipment that was never designed to be connected
 * Automation integration project delivery, including safety, validation, and commissioning
 * Ability to build and defend a business case, then prove the benefit landed
 * Comfort working on the floor in an active production environment

Strong plus: predictive maintenance analytics; machine vision; robotics integration; OT cybersecurity; experience across multiple sites or a smart factory program.

## Description

* IoT sensor deployment and machine connectivity on legacy equipment, including retrofit approaches for assets without native connectivity
 * Predictive and condition-based maintenance implementation, and the data pipeline behind it
 * Robotic and automation integration onto existing lines - cobots, pick and place, palletizing, vision inspection
 * OEE data capture that reflects reality rather than the number the plant would like to report
 * MES and shop floor data system implementation or integration to the ERP layer
 * OT/IT convergence and the network and security architecture it requires
 * Business case development and post-implementation benefit validation
 * Operator and maintenance training on everything you install