Vacancy: Epicor Project Manager

Epicor Implementation Manager The Role

12-month contract.  Strictly No Agencies

You will be responsible for the successful implementation of Epicor ERP (Kinetic) at Dynamic Aerospace Fabrications, leading and assisting in the transition from Epicor Avante and other legacy systems.

You will involve employees at an early stage to ensure the necessary commitment, culture and motivation is established to engage in the process of change.  You will chair a small multifunctional project team to determine minimum critical success criteria and involve them in determining the detail system design.

Using your knowledge and experience, your role will involve assessing the project requirements and mapping those requirements to the capabilities of Epicor.  Functionality gaps currently filled by the capabilities of existing legacy systems are to be critically assessed and a plan created for resolving them, making use of in-house expertise or budgeting for third party consultancy if required.

You will work together with the team to oversee and verify the validity of data transfer from legacy systems into Epicor and take the opportunity to make changes to optimise the performance of the new system.  You will work together with the existing IT team to customise and tailor the Epicor system, creating custom BPM rules and BAQs, customising the user interface and creating custom reports.

You will lead a program of testing and piloting, ensuring that all conceivable scenarios are trialled and procedures of work clearly defined.  The project team should be fully involved and be responsible for obtaining sign-off on the critical success criteria before go-live implementation.  You will be responsible for coordinating the training of end users.  Go-live implementation will need to be managed carefully to minimise disruption to the business.

Post implementation, you will identify and prioritise areas for improvements.

Your Experience

• You will have previous project management experience in the roll out of new ERP systems.
• You will have previous experience using and customising Epicor ERP, ideally in a manufacturing engineering setting.
• You will have gained an appreciation of the organisational and cultural issues surrounding change management and have experience working in multi-discipline teams.

Your Skills

• You will have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and have a record of finding creative compromise solutions that enable project success.
• You will have commercial acumen and have strong communication, organisational and prioritisation skills.
• You will be competent in writing custom Epicor BPM rules, BAQs and Epicor reports using SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Ideally you will have technical knowledge of SQL Server.
• You will have the ability to rapidly gain an understanding of legacy IT systems.

Application

If you would like to apply for the role, please forward your CV and covering letter detailing your current salary to Nicola Coultas, HR Manager, c/o Hydram, Avenue One, Chilton Industrial Estate, Chilton, County Durham.  DL17 0SG.

Hours of work:  Monday – Thursday 8:00-5:00, Friday 8:00-12:30

Strictly No Agencies

The Organisation

Dynamic Aerospace Fabrications Limited is a specialist manufacturer of complex precision sheet metal fabrications and machined assemblies for the aerospace industry located in Castle Donnington near Derby.  Dynamic is a tier 1 aerospace supplier, possessing many specialist capabilities including 6-axis laser cutting and 5-axis CNC milling and turning.