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Engineering SME

ROTORK PLC
Bristol
3 days ago
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Company Description

Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow or liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.

Job Description

The Engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) role is an 12 month Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

Purpose of the Job:
This role is responsible for supporting the delivery of Dynamics 365 and the associated engineering optimisation programme as a technical SME. The Engineering SME will work with the global sites to ensure they are aligned with best practices as part of entity readiness, and ensure they are ready to deploy D365.

Key Responsibilities and Outcomes:

  • Develop a plan to align entity sites to the D365 global blueprint in line with the overall project plan timelines.
  • Provide knowledge transfer on D365 across all areas of Engineering for both Fin/Ops and CE solutions.
  • Lead superusers through change management to adopt the core D365 solution.
  • Work with local superusers and Business Analysts to define, validate, and sign off requirements/deliverables to ensure the solution meets global best practices or local needs.
  • Hold and report upon the view of progress against solution and business readiness for Engineering tasks.
  • Work with the cross-functional team of SMEs to ensure data quality and lead on all data migration (ETL) cycles for Engineering.
  • Support coordination of Engineering cutover activities for Rotork sites.
  • Support solution deployment through testing, training and go live.

Process & Data:

  • Work with global process owners, business analysts, and enterprise architects to ensure the global process changes are delivered in time for go live for each entity.
  • Work with the data migration team to complete data profiling and mapping as part of business readiness, as well as leading on the issue resolution for each data transformation cycle across all entities

Change Management/Localisations Capture:

  • Prepare content for any workshops, taking users through the key areas of change, drawing out high-level discussions on potential changes between "as is" and "to be".
  • Where localisations are required, work with the relevant programme teams to translate Engineering needs into system configuration requirements and provide solution testing once developed.
  • Where changes from current ways of working need to be managed, identify, monitor, and manage any actions required to prepare for and embed the change.
  • Support local leadership teams in leading the change.
  • Provide on-site support to all entities to ensure readiness for the go-live of D365.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Technical knowledge:

  • 3 5 years working in engineering management roles.
  • Proficient level of knowledge and experience of key engineering processes in business areas listed.
  • Experience working on a deployment of D365 or similar ERP.
  • Continuous improvement experience.

Personal Specification:

  • Comfortable working in a high-pressure environment, in an agile and dynamic way to tackle unexpected and emerging issues.
  • Demonstrable track record, and sufficient gravitas and experience, to deliver positive, high-impact business outcomes and change.
  • Experience managing senior internal and external stakeholders to provide information, drive decisions, and resolve issues.

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Additional Information

About Rotork

Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.

For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.

Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.

Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.


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