IT Professional

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) is the global leader in automotive interiors. YFAI is redefining how people relax, work and play in their vehicle interiors today and decades from now. Headquartered in Shanghai, the company has 114 manufacturing plants and technical centers in 20 countries and more than 33,000 employees globally. They design, develop and manufacture interior components for all automakers. Established in 2015, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors is a joint venture between Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Huayu Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (HASCO), the component group of SAIC Motor Corporation Limited (SAIC Motor), and Adient, the global leader in automotive seating. For more information, please visit www.YFAI.com.

Job Summary:

3rd Shift IT Professional needed for Yanfeng's Chattanooga manufacturing plant. IT Professional coordinates, designs, builds, integrates, develops, tests, and deploys application technology solutions and delivers IT services and provides launch consulting services for the responsible software, specifically MES, WMS and manufacturing related software.  This role will be responsible for information systems analysis to improve manufacturing productivity and workflow or expanding systems to serve new purposes.  This role needs apply system analysis to solve problems, including determining software and system functional and technical specifications.

• Provide Level 1 support for the responsible platform/system.  As the MES software is production critical for YFAI plants, this could include off shift and weekend support in the case of production downtime.
• To recommend solutions of technical specifications.  Support the team during implementations.  Work closely with the vendor to find viable solutions.
• Drive fixes and/or enhancements with the supporting resources.
• Document requirements to support required business functionality.   Review with internal customers, vendors and other IT support staff as necessary. 
• Monitor existing system interfaces between both internal and external systems and correct errors.
• Monitor system error reports and logs and make corrections while working with key business users to prevent future errors.
• Provide technical documentations, work instructions, knowledge base articles

Additional Responsibilities: 

• Learn new technologies to support other systems in YFAI including the replacement of existing platform/systems. 
•  Actively participate in the architecture and implementation of new solutions to support the future regional or global system solutions.
• Manage ongoing support requests and administrative needs.
• PC and Server management within manufacturing plant, administer backup and recovery.  
• Communicate effectively with end users to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Communicate and coordinate with infrastructure teams to execute system changes.
• Ensure issues and defects are resolved in a timely manner, including during non-work hours to resolve critical production issues. 
• Other important functions as required, such as developing requirements documentation to support business functionality in YFAI’s strategic system solution, providing valuable input to the development of this strategy, working closely with the system software vendors to ensure understanding and on-time delivery, ensuring existing system functionality is tested in the future strategic system solution.

Required Education Level     High School Graduate or Equivalent
Area of Study:    Information Technology or related
*Equivalent work experience may also be considered for certain positions.

Required Qualifications     

• 5-9 Minimum Years of Experience within Information Technology specifically in the area of related system implementations.
• Knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle including requirements analysis, design, development, testing (integration, user, and performance), implementation, and support.
• Must have hardware and software skills.
• Experiences with the related systems and .NET development
• Knowledge of coding languages (e.g. C , Java, JavaScript, HTML)
• Experience with relational database (SQL, Oracle) and SQL programming
• TCP/IP, Cisco Switches
• PLC programming and communication architecture a plus, Kepware
  Working knowledge of QAD, MS SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• 1-3 Minimum Years of Experience within the automotive industry
• Experience working in global corporation preferred.
• Experience in a JIT/JIS automotive supplier or manufacturer, FCA knowledge is preferred.