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Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running. We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life.

Job Summary

The SAP Plant Operations Lead is responsible for the integration, development, and delivery of technical solutions deployed in the global production environment. This role provides day-to-day configuration and process support for applications that enable critical operating functions. The SAP Plant Operations Lead collaborates closely with business partners, from Directors to individual department employees, to structure business requirements and design IT solutions. This requires an understanding of numerous end-to-end business processes in manufacturing, warehousing, and shipping operations, and in-depth knowledge of how these processes are implemented in IT solutions. The Lead provides hands-on guidance on system design and project management to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget to direct and distributed teams.

The SAP Plant Operations Lead is solely responsible for ensuring the operation and improvement of IT Applications supporting business processes related to Plant Maintenance, Manufacturing, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, Package Shipping, Bulk Shipping (Pacweigh/JWS), and Warehouse Management.

This position requires an innovative individual who can mobilize distributed teams within a multinational company to execute technology solutions and business processes in alignment with the business vision. The Lead works with peers and external partners to improve existing systems and provide new solutions to support the business strategy, as well as envision and prepare for the future. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of innovation, effective execution, business process improvement, solution ownership, and productive partnership.

The business will consider the SAP Plant Operations Lead to be their business and systems expert, and their key technology partner in executing projects and system sustainment towards increased efficiency and revenue generation.

This role can be performed at any Morton Salt plant location.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure IT applications are available and operating on a day-to-day basis.
• Respond to and provide timely resolution of any problems with IT applications that impact our ability to manufacture, store, or ship products.
• Lead the implementation and integration of SAP systems within our plant operations, ensuring that business processes are effectively supported and streamlined.
• Work with Managers, Business, and Process Leads to identify and prioritize issues, improvements, and projects.
• Provide project management that effectively manages multiple tasks and resources (employees and vendors), while meeting project timelines, goals, and staying within budget.
• Ensure team members and vendors utilize approved maintenance and support processes.
• Provide leadership in collaboration with members of other functional teams.
• Work closely with other team members, locally and globally, with proactive sharing of expertise to improve and ensure team success.
• Participate fully in the success of the overall global IT team.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of SAP configurations, processes, and procedures related to plant operations.
• Work with software vendors to develop solutions in response to system malfunctions, software bugs, and program changes.