Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Pay Rate $58.30 to $69.00 per hour

Essential Job Functions

• Will be responsible for decision making associated with the design, development, configuration, customization, testing, documenting, implementation, and support of business solutions based on the requirements and priorities set forth by the IT project lead/manager/director. Also responsible for providing guidance and decision making for other programmer/analysts and associate programmer analysts.
• Will work as a member of the Business Systems Team having daily contact with team members, subject matter experts, business end users, and business and IT management to design, develop, test, document, implement, and support the assigned business solutions. This position will provide enterprise-wide support of these business/functional modules. This position requires frequent communication with end users including troubleshooting and providing assistance.
• Documenting business requirements, solution alternatives, test scenarios and results, training materials, business end-user communications, design and configuration, and implementation details.
• This position may be required to participate in very large and complex programming and configuration related projects.
• Will provide design and implementation support for the installed Quality Management and Manufacturing Execution Systems. This may include requirement collection, solution design and concept writing as well as performing heavy development and customizing activities of SAP ECC and SAP MII systems and their interfaces to other non-SAP systems.
• Will provide primary end user support for the SAP ECC, SAP MII, and non-SAP Quality Management and Manufacturing Execution Systems. This includes:
  • Troubleshooting, diagnosis, documentation improvement, and resolution of end user problems.
  • Performing routine system maintenance checks, creation and maintenance of master data and corrective actions such as maintaining, adjusting, and manipulating interfaces between the SAP MII manufacturing system and the SAP ECC system.
• Contribute to ongoing system improvement efforts to include:
  • Collecting requirements from business users, researching available solutions, developing and documenting conceptual design alternatives.
  • Communicate effective conceptual designs, writing technical specifications and coordinating development work with more senior analysts and/or programming staff, building and configuring prototypes and prototype documentation.
  • Development of new or enhanced capabilities in the existing Quality Management and Manufacturing Execution Systems. Adhere to development and documentation best practices producing effective and bug free code.
  • Communicate with and educate business users, conduct unit testing, and coordinate integration and user acceptance testing.
  • Work with security team to ensure appropriate system authorization, migrating to production.
  • Prepare comprehensive and thorough design and training documentation, train subject matter experts, provide post-implementation support efforts.
• Will interact regularly with end users, engaging in troubleshooting and root cause analysis of production issues, and providing continuous improvements to all aspects of design and processes.

Minimum Qualifications

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  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, or engineering required.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive responsibility in software design, development, configuration, and programming including web development experience using SQL, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Data tables, XML, XSL, XSLT.
• Excellent understanding of coding methods and best practices.
• Extensive relational database and operating systems experience with MSSQL Server, DB2, or Oracle.
• Experience learning and documenting complex business processes and requirements.
• Experience defining, designing, building, configuring, testing, and implementing IT solutions for complex business functions.
• Capable of teaching others.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively with non-technical staff and members of other IT and business teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with varying levels of management, users, and team members, both written and verbal.
• Must be capable of working to a structured work plan with aggressive milestones and have strong problem-solving skills, sound judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making ability.
• Must be highly goal and results oriented.
• Must be highly self-motivated and driven – must be capable and willing to learn complex systems with minimal supervision.
• Project experience is beneficial.
• Excellent technical skills (e.g. SAP, MS Office suite, MS Project, programming, etc.).
• This position requires possession or development of specific skills, knowledge and experience with the SAP system, specifically in SAP Quality Management, Materials Management, Production Planning, PP-Process Industries, Inventory Management, and BAPI development. Experience with non-SAP systems is also desired.
• Familiarity with SAP ECC or S/4 HANA and SAP MII and quality management / manufacturing processes and document flow are beneficial.
• Basic understanding of the SAP system’s roles, interfaces, and standard content.
  

Preferred Qualifications

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  Master’s Degree.
• Experience in supporting Quality Management or Manufacturing Execution Systems – preferably in a food or other
  consumer goods production environment.
• IT experience working in a manufacturing organization for a $1+ billion organization.
• Broad consumer products industry experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to move up within the organization.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.