SAP Business Analyst Level 3

Description:

As a Manufacturing Engineering (ME) Business Analyst supporting SAP and MES (Apriso) production planning applications for the Space business area the employee will facilitate the development implementation and sustainment of the manufacturing execution system and processes to include interfaces with our ERP and PLM systems. The employee will work across multiple project teams to optimize engineering and manufacturing bill of material and work instruction processes working directly with both our Space shop floor users and our IT team to translate requirements resolve errors and improve processes.

Basic Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience in the following:

• Strong Apriso production planning quality/nonconformance and manufacturing execution experience (5 years) including configuring the Apriso system.
• Quality manufacturing engineering and shop floor execution process knowledge is also desired.
• 5 years configuration experience Apriso with ability to configure and customize configurations in manufacturing execution system.
• Minimum 3 years experience supporting full cycle implementation which includes Gap Analysis Requirements gathering blueprinting Development Testing Reporting Golive and Post Golive support.
• Demonstrated experience in writing functional specifications creating test plans and test scripts and performing system integration testing.
• Integral knowledge in manufacturing work instructions production order buy off and shop floor management.
• Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Prior experience in manufacturing engineering processes including ability to create and manage engineering and manufacturing bill of materials and manufacturing work instructions.
• Experience with manufacturing engineering change processes.
• Demonstrated analytic skills in analysing large production capacity MRP related data.
• Ability to adapt business processes into automated tools and techniques.
• Understanding of software agile development lifecycle and the implementation of user requirements into the environment via definition testing implementation and training
• Effective communication and facilitation skills ability to converse technically and functionally.
• Excellent documentation skills writing Functional Specification and performing Unit tests/Integration tests.

Skills

• Ability to perform manufacturing engineering processes in Apriso and SAP ERP (Change Management Bill of material management and Manufacturing Work Instructions)
• Ability to create and manage visual work instructions.
• SAP and Apriso implementation experience within the production business processes.
• Experience with SAP S4
• Experience in Apriso
• Experience in quality engineering.
• Experience in modelbased engineering.
• Experience in the deployment of manufacturing execution systems to include automation techniques security and project management.