Functional Application Engineer

Depending on your level of education and experience, gross salaries may vary between €2000 - €3500.

This is complemented by:

- flexibility in working hours & location

- company car + fuel card

- internet fee €20/month

- hospitalisation & group insurance

- 12-ADV days in 40-hour working week

- MCs €8

- ECs

For a company supplying customers in the industry with advice and the mechanical parts required for maintenance, repair and optimisation projects, we are looking for a Functional Application Engineer.

The company works with a PIM system (Informatica Product 360). As a PIM engineer, you will be responsible for the development of PIM as the central storage medium for the management of all product information. On a daily basis you will contribute to the availability and user-friendliness of PIM/MDM for the internal users, the assessment and roll-out of new functions and you will also pay attention to data exchange with other data systems (ERP, DAM, WCS,...)

For this position, you will work 1 day a week in Mol, 1 day a week at a location of your choice (Antwerp, Mol, Asse, Moorsele) and 3 days a week at home (if desired) within a flexible hourly schedule: start between 7:00 and 9:30 and stop between 15:00 and 18:00 in consultation with your colleagues.

You are responsible for the following tasks:

- You become an expert in the PIM system

- Based on questions, problems and complaints from the business, you look for possibilities to improve the user-friendliness and speed of processes.

- You carry out the necessary programming or code changes for this purpose

- You supervise the rollout of new functionalities and provide training to colleagues for this purpose as well

- You manage ENG language documentation

- You map out new user requirements and ensure that templates are built for preview purposes, among other things

- Assessing new releases for their usability for ERIKS

- You then carry out system updates

- You work out project proposals, e.g. the unlocking of PIM data to another application

In short: a varied job and ideal for those who do not want to programme full-time.

The emphasis is on back-end development, but if required, front-end can also be included (e.g. for visualisations, previews, templates, elaboration of 3-monthly written catalogues, ...)

The company supplies customers in the industry with advice and the mechanical parts required for maintenance, repair and optimisation projects

- BA in computer science-ICT or experienced in IT direction

- IT knowledge through training, hobby, self-made, ...

- No previous knowledge of PIM is required

- Knowledge of and interest in programming (HTML, XML or Java are most important)

- Growth and training path can be provided by team

- SQL and PhP can be learnt or deepened

- Depending on your interests, we can focus more on variation (communication, front-end variation, ...) or on actual programming (back-end)

- Knowledge of NL and ENG

- Front-end knowledge may be a plus (Indesign Easycatalog)