SAP Basis (Dallas or Houston, TX)

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.

Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda - key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem's market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

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

Recruitment Fraud

It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.

Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:

*Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees

*Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or

*Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.

We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.