ERP Data Strategy Engineer

INFICON•East Syracuse, NY

20h

About The Position

INFICON is seeking an ERP Data Strategy Engineer to lead the existing ERP Data Specialist team. This role involves solving problems related to SAP manufacturing data setup, providing technical guidance on SAP best practices, and playing a key role in INFICON's SAP 4/HANA transformation. The engineer will assess, analyze, and validate manufacturing data for the America region and lead improvement initiatives for SAP and other manufacturing software. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, a proven problem-solver, and resourceful.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience as a power-user of an ERP system(s) and deep familiarity with Engineering Changes, BOMs, routings & production work orders, preferably in a low-volume, high-mix manufacturing organization with customer-configurable product offerings.
Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline and 5+ years of experience or the equivalent combination of education, training & experience.
Experience with SAP is strongly preferred – experience with similar ERP systems is acceptable provided the individual has a demonstrated ability of being strong at self-education on software systems/capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to develop methods of entry/edits of large ERP datasets.
Detail-orientated and analytically focused individual who has a proven track record of problem solving and a resourceful mentality.
Individual who enjoys challenges and can articulate their thoughts and ideas clearly & effectively.
Independent and driven individual who is good at collaborating with others on projects and technical initiatives.
The ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
Establish credibility & trust from all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience generating data queries to investigate and make data edits/loads on a large-scale basis.

Responsibilities

Provide trouble-shooting and technical guidance to the ERP Data Specialists on SAP and other related issues they encounter during engineering change implementation and production-floor related issues.
Perform root-cause/corrective investigations on SAP related issues on the production-floor related to items such as inventory discrepancies, material allocations, cost-variances & work-instruction discrepancies.
Support data integrity and process alignment within SAP as part of the S/4HANA transformation.
Collaborate with the global governance team to develop documentation & maintenance strategies for master data responsibilities along with any associated business processes.
Assist in data migration activities by analyzing current-state data, performing data uploads & validations along with any associated troubleshooting and assessment of overall plant readiness.
Support training efforts to help end-users understand processes, impacts and relevant data prior to implementation/go-live.
Act as the technical project lead in the implementation of the full functionality across the organization of the SAP Engineering Change workflow process.
Develop and maintain template files, best-practice guides & other ERP related items that improve standardization and overall data integrity practices within the team.
Act as the intermediary between the ERP Data Specialist team and INFICON’s Global SAP team and become the regional Subject Matter Expert (SME) on SAP manufacturing related topics.
Provide guidance on data-structure and best-practices and ways of working as INFICON begins the roll-out and usage of a new Manufacturing Execution Software (MES) solution.
Work to recommend and implement standardizations on production floor digitization-related items such as bar-code, serialization & associated software tools.
Work to ensure both internal & external customers are satisfied with the team’s response in dealing with the inevitable SAP and other associated manufacturing data related issues that arise in a manufacturing organization.
Work jointly on a near-daily basis with INFICON’s production & Global SAP teams.