Can experience EHS professional work for SAP EHS

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I am EHS professional, having 14 years of work experience in Environment Health and Safety domain in Manufacturing as well as project industries. I would like to switch my career from Manufacturing Industries to IT industries - SAP EHS with the help of my core expertise in Environment Health and Safety domain. Request guidance on following aspect

Is it possible to changing career path from Manufacturing to IT ?

If yes,What avenues available for this change?

Can i able to use my domain expertise?

Is i need to take sort of education in SAP?

If yes, please elaborate

Regards!

Rahul

[former_member191252 · Accepted solution]

Hi Rahul,

Let me answer your question in detailed:

Pros:

Having domain knowledge is really helpful you anyone, in your case, i think you are like SME, an expert in EHS domain.

Hopefully you may have seen many solutions in EHS, technically in order to do EHS, we need to have some software, so SAP is one of the top notch solution provider in Environmental, Health and Safety Management, which is technically called SAP EH&S and newly EHSM component extension.

If you join a client that will add a value. Client may look for domain knowledge and IT experience.

Cons:

You need to have IT knowledge and also need to learn SAP / SAP EH&S.

Christoper (SAP EHS forum, one of the top notch forum contributer wrote many blogs for starters, one of the top one is So please go through it for help in detailed.

Software companies may hire some of the SME in EHS, but many may need some SAP experience and some may not prefer.

You will find many course in SAP in this like, you need to search for what you need https://training.sap.com/us/en/

In my opinion, i think even if you are SME in EHS, you need to under how the SAP tool works and you need to answer clients specific questions, like: Why SAP EHS, why not other EHS tools. What SAP EHS can do for them, how easy to do that one. So conclusion, you may need some time to learn SAP /SAP EHS.

Hope this is helpful.

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[former_member1313393 · Accepted solution]

now a days it is getting tough to get a SAP EHS consultant job from those who wanted to shift from domain.

[former_member1313393 · Accepted solution]

please tell me whether u got opportunity in SAP EHS