Senior IT Technologist- SAP Quality Management and production Planning

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

Job Description

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes.
• Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards.
• Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system.
• Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities.
• Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
• May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
• May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
• Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users.
• Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required.
• Gather and prioritize integration requirements.
• Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solves problems.
• Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems.
• Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems.
• Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility.
• Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically, an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.  May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower-level professionals.  The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.

Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.

Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists.

Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.

May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.

Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.

Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.

May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience in SAP PP Management:

• Lead the implementation, configuration, and support of the SAP Production Planning module.
• Manage system upgrades, enhancements, and patches within the SAP PP environment.
• Ensure the SAP QM/PM module system configuration aligns with the organization’s production processes and overall business strategy.
• Configure key SAP QM/PM components, including demand management, material requirements planning (MRP), production orders, and capacity planning.
• Integrate SAP QM/PM with other SAP modules such as MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution), and PP (Production Planning) to ensure seamless data flow.
• Configure SAP QM/PM solutions to meet specific business requirements, optimizing production schedules and resource utilization.
• Collaborate with production and supply chain teams to identify process improvements and automation opportunities within production planning and control.
• Develop and implement best practices for planning, scheduling, and Manufacturing execution using SAP QM/PM.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into functional specifications for system enhancements
• Provide expert-level support and troubleshooting for SAP QM/PM -related issues, ensuring minimal disruption to production operations.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of SAP QM/PM configurations, business processes, and system changes.
• Lead SAP QM/PM -related projects, including planning, resource allocation, and coordination with cross-functional teams.
• Manage project timelines, risks, and deliverables to ensure successful project completion.
• Work closely with stakeholders to align SAP QM/PM configurations with overall project goals.
• Travel required 10-25%

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree
• 5+ years of experience working with SAP Quality Management and Plant Maintenance, including multiple full life-cycle implementation experience.
• Proven expertise in SAP QM/PM configuration, customization, and integration with other SAP modules.
• May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Strong understanding of production planning, scheduling, and control processes.
• Experience leading SAP projects and working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with SAP ECC and migration to S/4HANA and Fiori apps related to SAP Production Planning module.
•  Knowledge of SAP integration with MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and other production systems.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles and production optimization strategies.
• Strong leadership and project management capabilities.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities and projects.
• SAP QM/PM certification is highly desirable.

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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