# MES Deployment Lead

MES Deployment Lead Engagement Details Location: Houston, TX - On-siteStart Date: TBD - anticipated within the next 1-3 months, potentially sooner for the right candidateEngagement Type: ContractPay Rate: 1099: $130-$160/hr | W2: $110-$125/hrThe Opportunity Planet Pharma is proactively identifying a Senior Syncade MES Deployment Lead to support a large-scale greenfield pharmaceutical manufacturing program in Houston, TX. This is an early-stage, high-impact engagement, where the right candidate will be embedded directly within the client’s Houston IT team, serving as the senior technical authority and strategic right hand to the IT Lead as the MES program is built from the ground up. This is not a hands-on configuration role. The right candidate operates at program level - owning the deployment roadmap, driving validation strategy, and providing technical leadership to a contractor team that will scale to 10+ engineers. If you’ve led a Syncade deployment on a major capital program and can think and execute at both the strategy and system level, this role was built for you. What You’ll Own Lead end-to-end Syncade MES deployment strategy - including recipe creation planning, system ar

- **Id**: 3853529
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/planet-pharma-mes-deployment-lead>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T12:14:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 45
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2875
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 4467183
- **Name**: Planet Pharma
- **Domain**: planet-pharma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/planet-pharma>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 15
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 130
- **Max**: 160
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 320000

## Technologies

- **21 CFR Part 11** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no
- **Outlook** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 45

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T05:00:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.235
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 320000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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