First Quality

Solutions Engineer

• Support system integration activities, including mapping and transformation of data between SAP TM and other enterprise systems
• Own SAP TM system configuration, end-to-end transportation processes, and related procedures
• Troubleshoot and resolve SAP TM system issues, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions
• Document SAP TM configurations, selection and planning profiles, batch jobs, and ensure documentation is up to date and well maintained
• Ensure SAP TM environments across ECC and S/4HANA remain synchronized and consistent over time
• Perform integrated quality assurance testing for transportation planning and management scenarios
• Ensure test scripts are adequate and complete to cover all transportation scenarios for successful end-to-end testing before deployment to production
• Lead an active role in low-level design, testing, and implementation phases of projects, collaborating closely with the business transportation team
• Write functional and technical specifications for new developments and system enhancements
• Analyze transportation-related data and develop logical business application solutions in collaboration with IT and user teams
• Review SAP TM system customizations and replace with standard solutions wherever feasible
• Comply with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and governance standards.

SAP Transportation Management Solution Engineer

Payroll

• Transmission of multi-state weekly and bi-weekly payrolls for multiple companies
• Reconciles payroll each pay period for hours, earnings and deductions
• Provide information and answer employee questions about payroll related matters
• Maintaining employee records
• Coordinating with HR to ensure correct employee data
• Assist with system maintenance: calendars, bonus processing
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within payroll, changes in wage and tax laws
• Provide reports to finance and other departments as necessary
• Audits timekeeping records for compliance with established policies and procedures, as necessary
• Other duties, as may be required

Payroll Analyst

• Provides functional and technical leadership for the definition, design, and delivery of First Quality’s manufacturing systems
• Works with business leadership to document a clear vision of a business problem/opportunity and how it supports the business plan
• Ensures sound integration of processes and assigned systems across FQ
• Ensures adherence to IT Architecture principles and guidelines
• Ensures optimal application performance and maintainability of assigned systems thus enabling scalability and continuous updates from software vendors
• Stays current on emerging manufacturing technologies
• Supports and optimizes the MES systems (Proficy, PARCview) as well as MES bolt-on solutions (i.e., Loftware, NiceLabel, etc.)
• Works with plant personnel and Divisional IT Leaders to understand and address business requirements

MES Solution Engineer

Procurement

• Develop and execute comprehensive raw material category strategies aligned with business objectives and long-term growth plans.
• Drive total delivered cost optimization across material, logistics, duties, and related cost elements.
• Monitor commodity markets and translate insights into pricing strategy and proactive risk mitigation plans.
• Lead structured risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies to ensure supply continuity.
• Identify and execute value-creation initiatives including supplier consolidation, dual sourcing strategies, and supplier-driven innovation.
• Build and maintain strategic supplier partnerships that support cost competitiveness, quality, service, and innovation.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations including pricing, contracts, and long-term supply agreements.
• Structure and implement supply agreements that protect business interests and proactively mitigate commercial and supply risk.
• Establish and manage supplier performance scorecards, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Quality and Operations teams to support supplier audits and compliance evaluations.
• Partner closely with Planning, Operations, and Plant teams to ensure uninterrupted raw material supply.
• Align sourcing strategies with production forecasts and evolving business requirements.
• Lead cross-functional response to supply disruptions to protect service levels and operational continuity.
• Ensure supplier compliance with GMP, FDA, ISO, and internal quality and regulatory standards.
• Deliver measurable cost savings, cost avoidance, and supplier-led innovation initiatives.
• Leverage spend analytics and market intelligence to inform leadership decisions and category strategy.
• Manage raw material spend and contribute directly to profitability, productivity, and working capital objectives.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance procurement processes and efficiencies.
• Own supplier selection and sourcing decisions within delegated authority limits.
• Lead, coach, and develop procurement team members through performance management and succession planning.
• Facilitate cross-functional category teams to drive alignment and execution of sourcing initiatives.
• Serve as the Procurement representative on Business Unit leadership teams, influencing strategic decisions impacting cost, supply, and innovation.
• Deliver annual cost savings and productivity targets.
• Maintain high raw material service levels.
• Reduce supply risk exposure across strategic categories.
• Improve supplier performance metrics.
• Support innovation and new product initiatives.

Raw Material Procurement Manager

Data Engineer

• Design and implement data architecture and ETL solutions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, and data scientists to understand data requirements and design scalable and flexible data models.
• Develop data ingestion pipelines and frameworks to efficiently capture and integrate data from various sources into data warehouse platform (on-prem & cloud).
• Define data storage and retrieval mechanisms, including multi-tenant data partitioning, indexing, and compression, to optimize performance and cost efficiency.
• Create and maintain data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes to transform, cleanse, and integrate data across different data sources.
• Perform data profiling, analysis, and troubleshooting to identify and resolve data-related issues.
• Identify technical areas for improvement and present detailed business cases for improvements or new areas of opportunities.
• Work with external and internal teams to resolve infrastructure-related issues when developing integration solutions.
• Work with IT functional leads to understand the application architecture and setup right integration mechanisms.
• Follow DevOps practices across all analytics systems.
• Communicate complex ideas in simple terms, and effectively interact with decision makers.

• Provide technical oversight of SAP on NetWeaver 7.5 running on Oracle/Linux
• Partner with Managed Service Basis and infrastructure teams on: System performance optimization, Capacity planning, Landscape stability, Transport and environment coordination
• Monitor and optimize Oracle database performance
• Ensure reliable connectivity between: ECC, EWM, TM, SCM systems, MDG, GRC, BW, External MES and warehouse systems
• Lead execution of SAP data archiving strategies

Senior SAP Technical Engineer

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Develops understanding of diverse business processes selected for analytics or automation
• Evaluates feasibility and fit, maps solution and creates relevant documents, such as, the process definition document, process flowcharts, etc.
• Works with process owners to complete project request requirements and assists with return on investment estimates
• Develops solutions using diverse software tools, such as Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, MS Forms, among others
• Ensures that automated workflows are set up, tested, and monitored, and that the design and technology solution meet governance standards
• Tests and supports the launch and implementation of solutions and participates in the solution deployment process
• Runs tools, as needed, and resolves running issues
• Identifies, tracks and reports on automations’ performance metrics
• Follows governance processes and drives the adoption of best practices around coding, design, quality, and performance
• Creates and/or executes control testing procedures and documents work performed in accordance with the Department's standards
• Shadows Central Finance Manager to become knowledgeable on: Group’s internal and external financial analyses, including elimination and consolidation of financial statements
• Identifies and develops analytics and automation opportunities for Central Finance processes
• Performs financial closing and reporting activities, as back-up for Central Finance Manager, as needed

Financial Analyst – Automation

Technical Project Manager

• Accomplishes project objectives by evaluating requirements and outcomes needed from the project as well as planning, executing, monitoring/controlling and closing project activities
• Ensures change is introduced efficiently and effectively in the organization
• Leads, directs, coordinates and provides visibility into the organization’s change management efforts
• Creates change management strategies and develops change workstreams that maximize employees’ change readiness and adoption
• Employs structured project management methodologies (e.g. PMI) to deliver successful business outcomes through expertly managed projects
• Develops detailed project plans, deliverables, milestones, goals and inter/intra project dependency maps
• Works with project sponsors and stakeholders to define appropriate resource requirements
• Assembles and coordinates project team members and assignments across individuals maintaining balanced workloads
• Creates comprehensive communications plans for the project team, stakeholders, and sponsors
• Develops proper risk management strategies that focus on risk identification and proactive response/mitigation
• Ensures issue management is comprehensive, visible and timely to minimize impact on the project

IT Project Manager

• Provides input into overall direction, development and integration of warehouse control systems, warehouse automation (AS/RS), and automated guided vehicles.
• Focuses on strategic initiatives and plans; is proactive, anticipatory, and driving in nature to provide significant value to divisions/functions.
• Plays a lead role in enabling the business to achieve their objectives through the effective use of technology and continuous improvement.
• Work with business leadership to document a clear vision of a business opportunities and how they support the business plan.
• Works with the Campus/Divisions to understand business strategy and define system requirements.
• Ensures sound integration of processes for assigned systems across FQ.
• Serves as Subject Matter Expert for assigned systems in the areas of: Integration, Warehouse Control Systems, Material Handling Equipment, AS/RS, and Automated-Guided Vehicle integration to Business Systems (SAP, SAP-EWM)
• Ensures relevant Automation systems data is available in First Quality Analytics platform.
• Leads the delivery of assigned Automation Systems projects on time, within budget and meeting business requirements.
• Ensures adherence to IT enterprise architecture principles and guidelines.
• Ensures all assigned solutions are designed, built, and deployed to meet or exceed application performance and maintainability requirements thus enabling scalability and continuous updates from software vendors.
• Stays current on emerging Automation Solution technologies.

Solution Engineer – IT Automation

• Evaluate and recommend end-user software and hardware; create and negotiate proposals for purchasing new or upgraded products
• Establish and maintain the “Digital Workplace Roadmap” which includes processes and technologies which continuously enhance and modernize our end user experience
• Deploy Enterprise solutions which drive collaboration between team members enabling them to work together easily and efficiently in a modern workplace
• Work closely with Information Security to ensure endpoint security platforms are deployed, managed, and maintained properly
• Assist in establishing and maintaining standards for endpoint software, hardware, and related peripherals as well as setting and maintaining the roadmaps
• Provide training to the End User Technology team members around use and administration of relevant platforms and services
• Validate new and existing IT services provided to customers are optimal and meet business needs
• Collaborate with other IT team members and business members to plan, build, and operate technologies and systems
• Ensure end user technology solutions are a best fit to First Quality and adhere to enterprise architecture and principles
• Create and maintain current documentation associated with applications and systems managed by the team
• Responsible for software licensing management and compliance
• Provide Tier IV and escalation support to End User Technicians and engage with vendors and partners to resolve issues
• Work closely with vendors for escalated issues and roadmap strategies for End User Hardware and Peripherals
• Assist in project change management efforts
• Active Directory (AD) administration to maintain user and machine accounts, access rights for users and groups, machines, and group policy updates to deliver end user capabilities
• Utilize resources and tools to monitor and manage systems and services ensuring their overall health and availability
• Responsible for maintaining up to date and secure desktop Operating System images for FQ