Consultant - Industrial Automation
McKinsey & Company
Shanghai, China · Taipei City, Taiwan
Posted on Apr 29, 2025
Consultant - Industrial Automation
Job ID: 96349
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
Focusing on lean manufacturing and digital strategy, Industry 4.0, and Internet of things (IoT), you will work in a team with senior leaders to better understand the value at stake from digital transformation and shape targeted end to end manufacturing strategies.
We work to configure organizations so they can achieve rapid improvements in customer experience, innovation, revenue, and costs. You will help leaders translate their digital vision into a prioritized set of value-rich opportunities and help determine how organizations can be set up for success in a digital world. In order to achieve this, you will be expected to draw upon your deep industry or consulting experience as well as proprietary McKinsey data.
Your Growth
You’ll be working with McKinsey Industrial IoT Hub in Great China. Our team assists our clients in solving complex operational challenges. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality, our teams of consultants and experts work to develop and implement operational strategies that solve our clients' most critical problems.
Responding to the digital challenge that companies now face on a global scale, the McKinsey Industrial IoT Hub is seeking to leverage digital efforts and bring them to the next level. The Digital Operations group combines strategic thinking and technology expertise to deliver accelerated outcomes. We help clients separate digital opportunity from hype and we build business prototypes in order to prove that opportunities are real. We also orchestrate delivery to ensure that technology investment translates into business results.
Your qualifications and skills
- Professional industry experience gained from high tech, automotive, advanced electronics companies or industrial robot manufacturer
- Advanced graduate degree and excellent academic record required
- Hands on experience on automation and robotics key technology application
- Expertise in lean and demonstrated implementation evidence
- Experience in line level design required, factory level and layout design experience is a plus
- Industry 4.0 experience and IoT platform knowledge
- Proven track record and expertise in defining and implementing automation across all stages of the value chain (Industry 4.0/IoT)
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong record of leadership in an academic, professional, or extracurricular setting
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and Chinese
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Job Skill Group - CSS Associate
Job Skill Code - KS - Knowledge Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry - Automotive & Assembly;Consumer Packaged Goods;Industrials & Electronics
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LinkedIn Job Title - Consultant - Industrial Automation
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LinkedIn Industry - Automotive;Computer Hardware;Industrial Automation
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Job Skill Code - KS - Knowledge Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry - Automotive & Assembly;Consumer Packaged Goods;Industrials & Electronics
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Aug 15 00:00:00 GMT 2023
LinkedIn Posting City - Shanghai
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - China
LinkedIn Job Title - Consultant - Industrial Automation
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Engineering;Manufacturing
LinkedIn Industry - Automotive;Computer Hardware;Industrial Automation
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Not Applicable