IT Engineer MES - Ngodwana at Sappi

Role and responsibilities:  

• You will be part of the global IT team responsible to analyze, implement, improve, and support Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions for all our global production locations (South Africa, Europe, North America).

Doing this, you will: 

• learn about various business processes and will translate these into IT solutions 
• be responsible for creating technical concepts with a strong focus on standardizing processes 
• support global changes and extensions to existing functionality 
• have the opportunity to join a multi-year global project to standardize Sappi’s solution landscape for pulp and paper processes including the interfaces of future and current MES with Sappi’s ERP system and various automation equipment 

Required qualifications: 

• Analytical and structured thinking is easy for you 
• Due to your education or work experience, you’ve gained comprehensive understanding of the whole application development process from initial user discussions to post-go-live support 
• You have solid knowledge in databases, specifically Oracle, PL/SQL  
• Experience in programming tools/languages is helpful (e.g. 4GL, C, Java, .NET Core, JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML5…) 
• You completed your university level education in the field of computer science and/or gained relevant professional experience 
• You are willing to learn exciting industry-specific processes 
• You can speak and write in English