•         Adherence to safety procedures and participation in safety initiatives.

•         Designing, developing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining MES solutions according to applications according to functional and technical specifications whilst applying set standards and processes.

•         Managing the operation of MES Systems in his/her allocated area of responsibility with the aim of ensuring maximum service levels to the related production units and other departments.

•         Obtain knowledge of plant processes and/or business processes in allocated area of responsibilities.

•         Participates in forums or working groups as required by corporate or departmental focus.

•         Applies corporate and departmental standards, policies (testing, validation, change control, disaster recovery and incident/problem management) and rules in the choice of tools and methods during MES Systems software development.

•         Strives to deliver high quality, fit-for-purpose, reusable and maintainable software within the allocated time and with a minimum of rework.

•         Maintaining a detailed understanding and self-education in terms of current best practices, trends and events in the software development industry.

•         Obtain detail knowledge of plant processes in his/her allocated area of responsibility.

•         Callout service including scheduled 24/7 standby as part of the team.

•         Change and Incident Resolution and Management.

•         Attending applicable Information management, project related and other meetings as and when required

•         Creating documentation such as Design Documentation, Training manuals, Functional and technical specifications.

•         Troubleshooting, monitoring and status reporting.

•         Work estimation and planning of own tasks.

·         Minimum 18 months experience in most of the following software technologies/skills:

• NET development (VB.NET, ASP.NET, or .NET CORE)
• Visual Studio
• Web development (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Entity framework, Blazor)
• C /C# development
• Maintain database objects via Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and/or SQL Developer
• Developing within a Microsoft SQL database (T/SQL)
• Developing within an Oracle database (PL/SQL)
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
• Business Objects
• GIT Repository management
• Unix and the Windows family of operating systems

 Experience in the following:

• Business Analysis
• System / Solutions Analysis
• Full System Development Life Cycle including project scoping, solution design, development, inter-system integration, full factory testing, deployment, and maintenance
• System Support, Incident Management and Problem Solving

• Understand business processes relating to Order Management, Planning and Scheduling, Production, Stock Management, Costing, Financial and Logistical systems for a manufacturing environment (Manufacturing Execution systems).
• Experience in supporting and a working knowledge of the above environments.
• Understanding the essentials of system integration and inter-system communication.
• Exposure to Agile system development and Project management processes.
• Knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) related to systems and processes.
• Ability to understand a business process from a workflow diagram and to conceptualize it as an automated solution.
• Ability to read and interpret technical IT documents such as flow charts, database design documents and functional/technical specifications.
• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Exposure to project management responsibilities such as work estimation and planning of tasks
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office range of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Visio) is required.
• Exposure / experience in improvising and modernizing existing tool sets and systems