Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: SAP Basis Administrator
Career Level From: Specialist
Career Level To: Senior Specialist
Job Specialty: Application Delivery
What You'll Do
This position is responsible for the administration, support, and technical maintenance of SAP systems with primary responsibility for SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME) and SAP ECC environments.
This role provides hands-on technical support for SAP landscapes that directly support shop floor operations and production activities. The position ensures system availability, performance, stability, and compliance with enterprise cybersecurity and governance standards. Responsibilities include system monitoring, patching, upgrades, performance troubleshooting, transport management, and support of integrations between SAP ME and SAP ECC.
Due to the operational nature of manufacturing systems, this position follows a hybrid work model with onsite presence required at least two days per week.
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
- Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
- Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
- Career advancement and professional development programs
- Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline with five (5) or more years of relevant SAP Basis experience
Preferred Job Requirements
SAP Basis & Manufacturing Execution Expertise
- Experience administering SAP systems including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and system lifecycle management (ECC, NetWeaver, SAP HANA).
- Direct experience supporting SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME) and/or SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) environments.
- Understanding of manufacturing system architectures, including integration between SAP ERP and shop floor systems.
- Experience supporting highly available, production-critical systems.
Platform & Systems Administration
- Experience supporting SAP environments across Linux and Windows platforms
- Experience with SAP HANA and/or Oracle database administration, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with system performance optimization in high-throughput manufacturing environments.
Integration & Operational Support
- Experience supporting integrations between SAP ME and other enterprise systems (ERP, quality systems, warehouse management, etc.).
- Knowledge of interface technologies and middleware commonly used in SAP landscapes.
- Experience troubleshooting cross-system and network-related issues affecting production operations.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based service management practices.
Automation & Development Support
- Experience with shell scripting and/or Python for operational automation.
- Working familiarity with ABAP, UI5/Fiori, or SAP development tools sufficient to support developers and troubleshoot system-level issues.
Communication & Collaboration
- Ability to work closely with manufacturing stakeholders, production support teams, application developers, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
SAP Manufacturing Execution Support
- Administer and maintain SAP ME and related SAP systems supporting manufacturing operations.
- Ensure system availability and performance for production-critical environments.
- Support production deployments, manufacturing system updates, and planned maintenance activities.
- Participate in root cause analysis for shop floor system incidents.
SAP Basis Administration
- Perform SAP installations, upgrades, patches, kernel updates, and system refreshes.
- Monitor system health, performance, and capacity.
- Support database administration activities
- Maintain transport management and landscape consistency across environments.
Integration & Operational Reliability
- Support system interfaces between SAP ME and other enterprise or shop floor systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve integration and performance issues.
- Ensure systems operate in compliance with cybersecurity, audit, and governance requirements.
Documentation & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks.
- Identify automation opportunities to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives related to SAP platform stability and modernization.
Why Y-12?
You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
Notes
The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.
