Job Title: ERP Specialist
Location: CM9 5FA, Maldon, Essex.
Salary: £30,000 to £33,000 per annum
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Company is a leading life science company that designs & develops ultra low temperature freezers for liquid handling in laboratories worldwide.
Job Purpose:
- Manage and Maintain the ERP system.
- Act as the process owner and SME for the ERP system.
- Define material flow in ERP (BOM, costing, purchasing, part number, part issues).
Work with all business areas to ensure production and spares BOMs are up-to-date.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain the ERP System and support all business areas directly dependent on it (Planning, Production, R&D, Procurement, Servicing)
- Maintain and update items regarding purchasing details – cost, supplier details etc.
- Create product & sub-assembly structured BOMs & routing operations to provide build times & costs.
- Update & maintain revision status & production orders.
- Create part numbers (manufactured or purchased) and BOMs
- Maintain records for Servicing accessories & spares.
- Set up serialization of new products including creation of masks, forecasts, master plan files, etc.
- Support R&D projects and coordinate successful delivery of change requests in all aspects from development through to production.
- Liaise with all departments to ensure an efficient business process/day to day workings.
- Work closely with Planning to facilitate efficient consumption of existing stock, ensuring minimal scrapping and smooth transitioning across revisions (ie. CRs).
- Troubleshoot any process related issues from Planning / Production / Spares / R&D.
- Be familiar with the use of BI reporting tools to analyse information
- Investigate ad hoc BOM/stock/Servicing/spares validation issues and coordinate effective resolution
- Be the first point of contact and manage requests or queries from Servicing (Spares) in Hamburg
- Support and develop processes to validate and correct legacy BOMs
- Assist on requests from R&D regarding freezer development scrapping, BOM extractions, cost analysis and other ad hoc queries
Key Requirements
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor of Science Degree or similar
- ERP Experience
Professional competencies, special knowledge:
- Experience in the manufacturing sector
- In depth experience of ERP systems, preferably INFOR and/or SAP
- Experience of structured BOMs and an understanding of subassemblies (desired)
- Computer literate particularly Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of working within an international group
Personal Skills:
- Excellent communication skills across all levels of the business
- Team Orientated
- Willing and able to learn and effectively use new tools and systems (Jira, Confluence, etc)
- Proactive
- Perseverance & tenacity in obtaining approvals or confirming information
- Highly organized and able to prioritize and adapt to constantly changing demands from different business areas
- Detail oriented and conscientious
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience of: Project Manager, Production Project Coordinator, Infor, Infor CloudSuite Industrial, SyteLine, Senior Project Manager, Delivery Project Manager, Global Delivery Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Project Controller, Project Supervisor, Delivery Team Leader, IT Business Project Manager, PRINCE 2, Agile, IT Managed Services PM, PM, Implementation Manager, IT Infrastructure Manager, IT Project Manager, IT Project Coordinator may also be considered for this role.
