Become a key player in the transformation of industrial organizations
Digital and industrial transformation has become a strategic challenge for all companies: manufacturing industry, energy, healthcare, logistics, services, technology, local authorities…
They are looking for professionals capable of managing complex projects, integrating future industry technologies, improving overall performance, and driving change.
The Advance Master CPDTI program trains these rare and highly sought-after profiles.
Rapid and targeted professional integration
Through a professional development program, an extended corporate assignment, and a professional thesis, graduates rapidly attain leadership roles within:
- industrial companies (all sectors),
- design offices and consulting firms,
- digital companies (ESN),
- supply chain / production / engineering / performance departments,
- R&D and innovation departments,
- public or semi-public organizations involved in industrial and environmental transition.
🟩 Rapid integration: graduates of Mines Saint-Étienne’s Advance Master programmes traditionally show very high employment rates within 6 months.
Targeted Professions
Graduates of the MS-CPTDI program attain high-level positions of responsibility, such as:
🔧 Industrial Transformation & Operational Excellence
- Industrial Transformation Project Manager
- Head of Operational Excellence
- Process Digitalization Manager
- Lean manager / Continuous improvement manager
- Industrial Performance Manager
💻 Digital Transformation & Systems
- Digital Transformation Project Manager
- Industry 4.0 Manager
- Digital Transformation Consultant
- Industrial Information Systems Project Manager
- Digital Solutions Deployment Officer
🏭 Production, Organization & Supply Chain
- Industrial Organization Manager
- Methods / Industrialization Engineer
- Continuous improvement manager
- Supply Chain Project Manager
- Operations Manager
🔬 Innovation & New Production Models
- Innovation Project Manager
- New Products / Services Manager
- Innovation and Industrial Transition Consultant
- Cyber-Physical Systems Engineer / Smart Manufacturing
🌱 Environmental Transition & Sustainable Industry
- Energy or Environmental Transition Project Manager
- LCA / Circular Economy Manager
- Sustainable Transformation Consultant
- Project Leader for Industrial Decarbonization
Career Progression
After a few years of experience, graduates progress to strategic positions:
- Transformation Manager / Director of Transformation
- Production or Supply Chain Manager
- Performance Manager / Operational Excellence
- Industrial Director
- Global Continuous Improvement Manager
- Senior Consultant / Consulting Firm Manager
- Project Director
These progressions are made possible by the dual expertise acquired: global understanding of industrial systems + mastery of technological and organizational levers.
Opportunities in France and internationally
Industrial, energy, and digital transition is a global challenge.
The program opens opportunities with:
- large international groups,
- SMEs undergoing transformation,
- expanding industrial companies,
- innovation ecosystems (clusters, hubs, startups),
- public organizations committed to ecological transition.
Contacts
Company and Student
Academic Director

