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Solar Turbines Package Refurbishment and Upgrades department searches for Project Support Sales Order Administrator (SOA) responsible for processing a Windchill Bill of Material into a service order so that planners and buyers can procure the required project hardware in support of the customer shipment date. The Sales Order Administrator tracks project parts availability and develops recovery plans for parts that do not support build, test, or shipping dates. In addition, the SOA provides parts updates to Project Managers, ensuring there is a plan to ship the project either with complete parts or with shortages identified. The SOA also works with Global Trade Compliance to assign tariff codes and classifications to parts.
The SOA is responsible for uploading pricing into BAAN to support project commercial invoices for international project shipments and provides complete and accurate packing and crating definitions to the Shipping and Logistics teams.
The SOA works closely with the Factory Precommissioning (FPC) team to support parts and systems that will be used during testing.
The SOA also has responsibility for working with the Packing team to coordinate material releases for packing in order to meet project Readiness‑to‑Ship requirements. The role requires close communication with the Traffic team to collect drop‑ship materials to be delivered either to a packer or to the customer site.
Requirements
Strong knowledge of BAAN 5C and/or basic to intermediate LN knowledge
Familiarity with Trade Automation
Basic Windchill knowledge
Ability to multitask and manage several projects in execution (planning, tracking, and release for packing)
Strong communication skills
1 to 4 years of experience in planning, purchasing, or equivalent experience working with PSU projects (packing by systems, Windchill BOMs, containers, etc.)
Possesses good interpersonal skills, and be detail‑oriented
Planning and/or buying experience is a plus
What is Solar Turbines offering to you?
Excellent professional growth and career opportunities in an international environment of a worldwide leader in a very exciting and growing sector of industry
Fair and friendly atmosphere
Interesting remuneration package - at Solar we share our achievements with all employees
Corporate bonus paid once a year
Performance bonus paid twice a year
5 weeks holiday
Meal allowance
Cafeteria system 15000 points per year
Multisport card
Excellent coffee for free
Pension or life insurance up to 24 000 CZ/per year
Language trainings provided by company
This position requires a 5-days in the office schedule.
Any offer of employment may be conditioned upon the successful completion of a background screening.
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About Solar Turbines
Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines, with more than 16,000 units and over 3 billion operating hours in over 100 countries. Products from Solar Turbines play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world. Solar Turbines’ products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1,590 to 52,500 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1 to 39 megawatts). Solar’s customers put the company’s products to work in many areas including production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Solar’s foundation is people and Solar’s culture is one where individual contributions are valued, diversity in the workplace is encouraged, and safety is emphasized in all aspects of the business. Solar Turbines, founded in 1927, is comprised of a dedicated and multi-talented workforce of more than 8,000 employees with decades of experience working as a global team.
What you'll do
- The Sales Order Administrator is responsible for processing service orders and tracking project parts availability to ensure timely customer shipments. They also coordinate with various teams to manage parts updates and compliance with trade regulations.
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