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Functional application administrator

Papendrecht, The Netherlands, GKN Aerospace [GKN-FAA]

Field(s) of expertise
Business Administration and Finance
Job type
Contract
Education
Vocational
Deadline
Closed

About this job

The successful candidate will guarantee the functioning of the assigned application by resolving issues, and by improving and optimising the application in accordance with agreed planning, costs and quality.

The job owner reports hierarchical to the manager Global supply chain support.

 

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

  • Solve issues with the application yourself or escalate to technical support, IT or external application supplier
  • Maintain the relevant GKN procedures
  • Perform maintenance to the application to avoid downtime of the application
  • Maintain the calamity recovery plan of the application that describes what actions need to be taken by whom, when the application is not operational
  • Specify, develop, test and implement change requests in the application
  • Maintain authorizations in the application
  • Advise key users on the use of the application
  • Keep up with the developments and new releases of the application and advise the organization on these opportunities
  • Train functional application administrators

General Communication:

  • Key users in the global organization and local production sites on issues, change requests and optimal use of the application
  • GKN IT departments, technical administration, application managers, application suppliers on the maintenance of the application and interfaces
  • Process owners (GKN/Fokker Elmo Leadership team)
  • Application Change board

The successful candidate will be authorized to:

  • Handle standard requests in the application
  • Develop and implement changes in the application
  • Give compulsory advice on the use of the application
  • Give compulsory advice on change requests
  • Advice the organization and key users on the use of the application

They will responsible for: 

  • The proper functioning of the application in relation to reasonable costs
  • The availability of the application as the primary process will come to a stop within one day when this application fails
  • The calamity recovery plan for this application
  • Continuously improve the application
  • Functionally maintain the interfaces with related applications
  • Planning and costs of change requests

 

 

Profile

Communication in other languages:

Good knowledge and understanding of the English language is mandatory (reading/writing)

Knowledge:

  • Higher Vocational Education, Computer science and/or Business administration
  • Functional and technical expertise of this application
  • Knowledge of the use of the application within GKN/Fokker Elmo process
  • At least 5 years of experience of application administration in an international multi-site production environment

Competences:

  • Working meticulously and independently
  • Communicative and able to clearly communicate on complex matters
  • Analytical
  • Ability to work with other cultures
  • Pro-active attitude by interacting with and involving all stakeholders in the right way

 

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