OxyChem SAP Basis (Dallas or Houston, TX)

  • OPC Occidental Petroleum Corp
  • Dallas, Texas
  • 2mo ago
  • Full-Time
  • On-site

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

OxyChem, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading producer of essential chemistry with operations in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. OxyChem’s products play an essential role in everyday life, supporting critical applications in water treatment, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, personal hygiene, and residential and commercial construction. OxyChem actively participates in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program, underscoring our commitment to safety. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, OxyChem is a top three U.S. manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride, chlor-alkali and chlorinated organic chemicals, and calcium chloride. Visit oxychem.com for more information.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

SAP Basis is a purely IT / Technical function that entails understanding and supporting SAP applications and their underlying components such as databases, operating systems as well as any ancillary systems and native or third-party interfaces that connect interact with SAP systems.

Responsibilities for this position

  • Provide assistance to end users, business users and functional personnel with varied issues of a technical nature that can arise
  • Be able to anticipate, plan and coordinate various tasks with SAP and SAP ECS
  • Communicate with business users, technical users and overall user community about any planned and unplanned activities
  • Being able to represent the SAP Basis team in various projects that can include SAP release upgrades, SP updates, HANA DB release updates and projects involving critical integrations with SAP
  • Support day-to-day business operations with respect to planned and/or ad-hoc SAP Basis-related events and issues
  • Being able to support an SAP environment that contains SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BW/4 HANA, SAP Solution Manager, SAP BTP, SAP Fiori, SAP Cloud Connector and various other SAP systems
  • Manage and configure Solution Manager and ChaRM as needed
  • Provide analysis and apply SAP notes as required
  • Manage SAP Service Requests and SAP Cases along with SAP ECS
  • Coordinate patching of OS/DB instances, kernel patching and other patching and configuration activities along with SAP ECS as required
  • Managing and coordinating SAP top issues

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree IT such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
  • At least 5 years of SAP Basis experience
  • Experience analyzing and troubleshooting technical issues
  • Experience working with SAP Netweaver-based systems, SAP ECC, SAP BW, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BW/4 HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP BTP, SAP HANA DB
  • Prior experience planning, installing and configuring SAP systems, databases, operating systems
  • Be a team player, motivated and well intentioned
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication (verbal/written), and teamwork abilities
  • Be willing to stay up-to-date with new technologies required to support our critical business functions
  • SAP-certified candidates are preferred

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