Maintenance Lead

Title: Maintenance Lead

location: Location Parsippany, NJ.

Role Overview (Maintenance Lead)

The SAP S/4HANA EAM Lead is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and optimization of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) capabilities within SAP S/4HANA, with a strong focus on work management, detailed scheduling, and integrated MRO supply chain execution. This role plays a critical part in connecting maintenance operations, warehouse execution, and procurement to ensure high asset availability, efficient maintenance execution, and optimized inventory management.

This role requires deep hands on expertise in S/4HANA Asset Management, work order planning and scheduling, and directed warehouse processes for MRO parts, along with strong integration knowledge of SAP Ariba.

• Lead end to end SAP S/4HANA EAM solution design covering:
• Maintenance notifications and orders
• Preventive maintenance (maintenance plans and task lists)
• Corrective and shutdown maintenance
• Asset hierarchies, functional locations, and equipment
• Design and support work order lifecycle management from create plan schedule execute close.
• Enable segregation of duties between Planner, Scheduler, Supervisor, and Technician roles.

• Design and configure detailed maintenance scheduling using standard SAP S/4HANA EAM capabilities.
• Support:
• Weekly and daily scheduling
• Capacity based scheduling by work center and craft
• Prioritization of preventive maintenance vs backlog work
• Enable schedule freezing, dispatching, and execution tracking.
• Support schedule compliance measurement and execution variance analysis.

• Integrate EAM with warehouse processes supporting MRO material flow.
• Enable directed picking for maintenance orders based on:
• Required date
• Order status
• Optimized bin sequence
• Enable directed putaway for inbound and return MRO materials, including:
• Receipt to staging or dock
• Putaway to final bin locations
• Ensure materials are staged, issued, returned, and counted accurately for maintenance execution.

• Design and support integration between SAP S/4HANA EAM and SAP Ariba for:
• External services procurement
• MRO material sourcing
• Purchase requisitions and purchase orders generated from maintenance orders
• Ensure seamless flow of:
• Service entry sheets
• Goods receipts
• Invoice verification
• Support governance, compliance, and audit requirements for indirect procurement.

• Support cycle counting and physical inventory processes for MRO parts.
• Enable counting strategies by:
• ABC classification
• Storage location and bin ranges
• Ensure reconciliation of inventory movements tied to maintenance work orders.

• Act as the EAM functional lead for business stakeholders in Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Supply Chain, and Procurement.
• Translate maintenance strategy and operational requirements into scalable S/4HANA solutions.
• Provide guidance on SAP best practices while accommodating real world maintenance execution realities.
• Support testing, cutover, training, and hypercare activities.

• 10 years of hands on experience with SAP EAM / Asset Management
• Proven experience delivering S/4HANA EAM implementations or conversions
• Deep knowledge of:
• Maintenance work management
• Work order planning and detailed scheduling
• MRO inventory and warehouse integration
• Strong integration experience with SAP Ariba for services and material procurement
• Solid understanding of manufacturing, utilities, oil & gas, chemicals, or asset intensive industries
• Strong communication skills with the ability to lead cross functional workshops

• Experience supporting shutdown, turnaround, or outage maintenance
• Exposure to EWM enabled or WM integrated MRO environments (directed picking/putaway)
• Experience with SAP Fiori apps for EAM and warehouse operations
• Background working in globally distributed asset environments