Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• As the SAP SME, lead the analysis of business processes and system integration to create interface requirements, design specifications, and test plans, using process flow diagrams, interface mapping, and sample interface messages.
• Analyze and develop technical documentation, detailing the functionality and configurations required for integration between SAP and MES.
• Lead the interaction with customers to gather and analyze business process and interface requirements for Inbound/Outbound transaction messages To/From SAP.
• Train and guide analysts, developers and customer resources on integration to SAP R3, S4/HANA in requirement, design, specification, deployment process to ensure customer business process requirements are met.
• Support customer integration to SAP with middleware configuration such as NetWeaver/PI/PO.
• Effectively work with Implementation Manager(s) in estimating, planning, prioritizing and execution of assigned tasks within project deadlines
• Become the expert on Manufacturing Execution System (MES) processes, its role and integration with other enterprise systems such as ERP (SAP), and the ability to discuss its benefits with customers.
• Validate integration by thoroughly testing the application. Manage functional integration testing during implementation and production rollout.
• Coordinate with product specialists and team lead to design and incorporate innovative functionality in product release to enable effective MES and ERP integration.
• Understand application schema logical and physical models. Deploy the best integration technique for the situation.
• Analyze software issues in terms of functionality, usability, performance.

Pre-Requisites:

• 8+ years’ experience in manufacturing processes, information systems and system implementation methodologies, specifically in the area of Process Planning (PP), Manufacturing Execution, and Quality Assurance.
• Strong skills in leadership, verbal and written communication, analysis and process decomposition, and process re-engineering.
• Successfully worked and managed a large cross-functional team in a project environment.
• Designed, configured, and tested integration solutions to meet business requirements in SAP R/3 and/or S4/HANA into production.
• Possess acute analytical and problem-solving skills and experienced in production support and troubleshooting throughout system lifecycle.
• Must have extensive experience in Materials Management (MM), and Production Planning (PP) modules in SAP R/3 and/or S4/HANA.
• Knowledge of ABAP, IDOC, SAP data dictionary, and debugging techniques. Worked with various interface formats including but not limited to XML, JSON, and flat file..
• Experience in SAP S4/HANA Customer Service (CS) and Plant Maintenance (PM) for MRO a plus
• Experience configuring in SAP PI/PO a plus.
• Experienced in three tier architecture using J2EE/JAVA, Web Services, and API. Knowledge of cloud deployment is a strong plus.
• A Bachelor’s or higher level degree is strongly preferred but an equivalent work experience may be considered.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment:

·        Regularly required to stand or sit, reach, bend and move about the facility

·        May require some light physical effort

·        Usual office working conditions

·        May experience various travel schedule and different time zones

·        Travel times may include Sunday evenings and Friday afternoons.

·        Must be US citizen

·        Security clearance a plus