Senior Application Configuration Analyst - SAP Plant Maintenance

Description

• Participates in business strategies, objectives and drivers.
• Configure and optimize maintenance planning and scheduling strategies
• Participates in project initiation and defines high-level requirements.
• Works to create Centers of Excellence based on best practices.
• Is responsible for conducting prototypes, developing functional specifications, data mapping, function mapping, setting of configuration tables and setting of transaction/control tables.
• Design implementing, and optimizing and configure SAP PM module functionalities including maintenance plans, work orders, and preventive maintenance strategies
• May participate in hardware/software selection, and vendor selection.
• Manage the complete maintenance lifecycle from planning and scheduling to execution and closure of maintenance activities
• Participate in system upgrades, patches, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Acts as a champion in standards and methodology governance, preforming code, design and standard reviews for others within the department.
• Formulates and defines business scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of business and industry requirements. With this knowledge, develops or modifies complex business process. Includes analysis of business and user needs, documenting requirements, and revising existing system logic difficulties as necessary.
• Works in all phases of systems analysis and considers the business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment.
• Develop and maintain work management processes aligned with business requirements and best practices
• Create and manage maintenance master data including equipment, technical locations, and bill of materials
• Involved in the installation and tuning of modification, as well as archiving data. Ensures compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations.
• Collaborate with other functional teams (Finance, Production, Materials Management) to ensure process integration
• Is responsible for the identification of and resolution of gaps in the business processes. Involved in security/authorization set-up, user documentation, data interface design, data migration and reconciliation.
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) related to maintenance operations
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for PM-related issues
• Performs independent research within business to resolve business issues and process improvements. Performs functional analysis, requirements, definition and application module configuration and testing.
• This role is critical for ensuring efficient asset management, preventive maintenance scheduling, and work order execution across our operations.
• Document system configurations, processes, and standard operating procedures
• Facilitates process to gather/establish business requirements.
• Conduct training sessions for end-users on PM module functionality

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Exposure to Fiori applications for PM functionality
• Ability to facilitate interactive design and functional specification sessions.
• Experience with mobile maintenance solutions in S/4HANA
• Good organizational skills, with the ability to meet objectives and effectively multi-task.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning , work orders (WO), and maintenance scheduling
• Experience with preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and breakdown maintenance processes
• Proactive, self-motivated with the ability to motivate others and a customer-focused service attitude.
• Experience migrating or working with SAP S/4HANA Plant Maintenance module
• Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms. Excellent technical writing and system documentation skills
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with SAP Plant Maintenance module implementation and support
• Proficiency in configuring equipment hierarchies, bill of materials (BOM), and technical locations
• 5+ years IT experience, including several years of systems development experience in the design and development of department-wide or enterprise-wide applications.
• Familiarity with SAP Cloud Platform and cloud-based PM solutions
• Understanding of digital transformation initiatives in maintenance management
• Has a thorough understanding of the business processes and flows to enable the analysis of business requirements and the development of solutions for the business functions.
• Knowledge of systems and/or business analysis design concepts. Demonstrated proficiency in the applied use of systems and process analysis tools. Full system life cycle experience, including development lifecycle methodologies.
• Ability to work with all levels of the organization, both technical and non-technical.
• Possesses full technical knowledge of phases of software development life cycle.
• Detailed understanding and experience: 5+ years hands-on systems experience in one or more (specialized technical requirements as shown in technical addendum) modules appropriate for the job (or other related functional area experience).
• Knowledge of S/4HANA new features for predictive maintenance
• Knowledge of work center definitions, operations, and resource planning
• Must be a “team player” able to work with management in developing and implementing new processes and enabling systems. Able to work with end user groups to define application needs and identify feasible solutions.
• Expertise in SAP PM master data management and data quality
• Demonstrated project management skills for smaller projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and conceptual skills.
• Understanding of PM integration with other SAP modules (Materials Management, Finance, Production)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance