EDI Developer - Military veterans preferred

S.P. Richards Company

S.P. Richards is an Equal Opportunity Employer and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity. The company ensures that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion and job status, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Summary: Primarily responsible for the continuous, successful operation of the SPR EDI tool set, the creation and maintenance of EDI / B2B business processes and maps and application integration.

Location: Smyrna, GA (Near Battery Center)

Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop, modify, and maintain EDI/B2B business processes.
• Design, develop, and maintain EDI/B2B maps.
• Deploy solutions from the EDI/B2B test environments to the production environment.
• Maintain and perform maintenance on development, test, and production EDI/B2B environments.
• Tune EDI/B2B tools for optimal performance. 
• Monitor, Trouble-Shoot, and Maintain EDI/B2B processes. 
• Create and Maintain EDI/B2B documentation.
• Ensure the integrity of transmitted data.
• Suggest methods to improve EDI/B2B processes.

• Interface with other SPR departments as required.  

• Solve problems relating to EDI/B2B.
• Participate in the testing, implementation of new EDI/B2B maps, business processes, applications and scripts.
• Participate in EDI/B2B reporting activities.
• Interact as needed with trading partners.
• Interact with other applications and application owners to resolve EDI/B2B issues.
• All other duties assigned by the Manager.

Qualifications: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies:

Communication

Customer Focus

Decision Making/Judgment

Delivers Results

Productivity

Quality

Teamwork

Work Environment/Safety

Requirements:

•  Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• Expert Computer Skills including Unix and Linux commands/scripts, Web applications, Internet navigation and technology, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Project, and Visio.  
• Expert knowledge of EDI, B2Bi, Business Process mapping, EDI/B2B Mapping, XML, BPEL, X12, AS2, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, EDI encryption/decryption, EDI security, and other EDI standards.
• Competence to understand technical documents and apply technical information to solve problems.
• Must be a creative problem solver
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Available for a rotating on-call schedule
• Available for occasional travel.
• Working in Unix platform and Oracle base applications and environment.
• Working knowledge of shell scripts.

Education/Experience: 

• 4 year B.S. degree in a technical discipline preferred
• 4 years minimum experience in EDI and/or B2B technologies.
• 2 years minimum experience with IBM B2Bi / Sterling Integrator
• Experience with large trading partners.
• Experience with providing customer service to internal and external customers.

Required Competencies

Active Learner:  

Must be able to learn quickly when facing new situations.   Must be open to change. Ability to analyze both successes and failures for clues to improvement.. 

Customer Focused:  

Must be dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of both internal and external customers.

Decision Quality:  

Must be able to make timely, effective decisions without equivocating.  Must be able to make decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment.

Manage Priorities:  

Must be able to manage multiple priorities at the same time and to work with management to effectively establish correct priority levels.

Communication Skills:

The ability to communicate with distribution center operations management, customers, vendors, and merchandising management.  The skills to communicate in a training capacity.

Language Ability:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.   Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Math Ability: 

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.  Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability: 

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to organize and prioritize.

Computer Skills: 

Advanced knowledge computer operations, communications and development lifecycles.

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

This position has no direct supervisory role. 

Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The noise level in the environment is moderate.

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk. 

The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 10 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

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