SAP Coordinator

Company Overview:

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

SAP Coordinator|Franklin Park, IL|HIRING IMMEDIATELY

Compensation:

• $21.43-$26.78 (per hour)

Available Shift:

• Day Shift
• 7:00 am - 3:30 pm

TEXT TO APPLY NUMBER:

• 928-668-6539 (928-NOVOLEX)

Position Overview:

The SAP Coordinator is responsible for execution readiness and SAP integrity for extrusion and thermoforming operations. This role ensures production orders, labels, and inventory are correct and available to support continuous 24/7 manufacturing. The role is execution-focused and accountable for system accuracy that enables safe, compliant, and efficient production.

Esstential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Verify and close production orders in SAP for extrusion and thermoforming operations to ensure accurate production reporting.
• Review completed production orders for accuracy of quantities produced, material consumption, scrap reporting, and labor confirmations.
• Validate inventory transactions in SAP to ensure resin, boxes, regrind, sheet, WIP, and finished goods balances accurately reflect physical production.
• Investigate and reconcile inventory variances resulting from production execution, material usage, or posting errors.
• Support production execution by ensuring work orders and production documentation are complete, accurate, and properly closed in SAP.
• Verify label usage and part identification information to ensure accurate production and traceability records in SAP.
• Coordinate daily with the onsite Scheduler to review completed orders, execution issues, and inventory impacts from a 24/7 operation.
• Support thermoforming operations by verifying BOM materials consumption, rejects, and finished goods reporting.
• Monitor SAP inventory for negative balances, abnormal adjustments, or discrepancies and initiate corrective actions as needed.
• Assist with cycle counts, physical inventory activities, and reconciliation to maintain SAP inventory accuracy.
• Generate and review production, scrap, yield, and inventory reports to identify execution gaps and data integrity issues.
• Document execution issues, SAP errors, and recurring variances, and escalate trends impacting plant performance or compliance.
• Support plant execution standards, procedures, and controls to ensure consistent SAP discipline across all shifts.
• Provide SAP transaction support and guidance to supervisors and leads to reinforce accurate and timely production reporting.
• Develop working knowledge of SAP scheduling functions, routings, and BOMs to support progression into a future Scheduler role.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED required; Associate’s degree in Finance, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or related field preferred.
• 2–4 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in extrusion, thermoforming, or high-volume production.
• Hands-on experience using SAP in a production or plant execution role, including order confirmations and transaction review.
• Working knowledge of production reporting, scrap reporting, and order closure processes in SAP.
• Experience working with production documentation, work orders, and labeling in a manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of manufacturing inventory flows, including raw materials, WIP, and finished goods (execution-level, not analytical).
• Ability to identify SAP posting errors, execution discrepancies, and data integrity issues and escalate appropriately.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and basic reporting tools for reviewing and validating production data.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to work across multiple production lines and shifts.
• Effective communication skills for working with supervisors, leads, schedulers, and inventory analysts.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn SAP scheduling functions, BOMs, and routings as part of career progression.

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact [email protected].

Formerly Pactiv Evergreen