SAP PP & PM Senior Consultant

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Lead the SAP PP, PM/EAM, QM and EHS functional track and serve as the senior escalation point for complex production, maintenance, quality, safety, and cross-functional issues.
• ● Provide L2/L3 application support for incidents, service requests, problems, and minor enhancements in accordance with agreed SLAs, priorities, escalation procedures, and ITIL-based processes.
• ● Own issue resolution from triage through root-cause analysis, permanent correction, preventive action, validation, and knowledge capture.
• ● Protect business continuity and mission readiness during critical incidents, production cycles, maintenance windows, shutdowns, quality events, safety incidents, and planned releases.
• ● Translate business requirements into fit-to-standard solutions, functional designs, configuration changes, specifications, estimates, test scenarios, deployment plans, and support documentation.
• ● Govern change requests through impact assessment, solution review, configuration, development coordination, testing, approval, transport, deployment, and post-release stabilization.
• ● Lead unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing; ensure complete test evidence, defect closure, business sign-off, and traceability.
• ● Monitor ticket trends, recurring failures, ageing backlog, interface exceptions, batch jobs, master-data issues, and process bottlenecks; drive measurable service improvements and automation.
• ● Coordinate with business process owners, manufacturing, maintenance, quality, HSE, supply chain, engineering, security, Basis, ABAP, integration, data, and infrastructure teams.
• ● Lead onsite-offshore coordination, work allocation, quality reviews, shift handovers, knowledge transfer, and mentoring of functional consultants.
• ● Prepare and maintain runbooks, SOPs, functional specifications, configuration records, known-error articles, release notes, support guides, and audit-ready evidence.
• ● Participate in service reviews, major-incident forums, change advisory boards, problem-management reviews, and continual-service-improvement planning.
• ● Provide on-call or after-hours support for priority incidents and business-critical activities when required by the AMS operating model.
• ● Module and Process Expertise
• ● SAP Production Planning (PP)
• ● Production master data including bills of material, work centers, routings, recipes where applicable, production versions, and control parameters.
• ● Demand management, material requirements planning, capacity planning, production scheduling, shop-floor control, production orders, confirmations, backflushing, and variance analysis.
• ● Make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, repetitive, discrete, and project-oriented manufacturing scenarios, as applicable.
• ● Batch and serial-number traceability, engineering-change impacts, subcontracting, rework, scrap, yield, and production reporting.
• ● Integration with MM, SD, QM, PM, PS, EWM/WM, MES, and FI/CO.

Requirements

• ● Role Summary
• ● We are seeking a Senior SAP Lead with 15-18 years of experience and deep functional expertise across SAP Production Planning, Plant Maintenance / Enterprise Asset Management, Quality Management, and Environment, Health and Safety. The role will provide end-to-end functional leadership, L2/L3 support, solution governance, and continuous improvement for a mission-critical SAP AMS engagement supporting a customer in the UAE. The successful candidate will own integrated manufacturing, maintenance, quality, and safety processes while ensuring production stability, asset readiness, quality compliance, operational safety, security, confidentiality, and auditability.