Business Analyst - Digital MES & Mfg Systems
$73,300–$120,700 year
On-siteStaunton, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Collect, analyze, and interpret complex manufacturing data to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for process improvement. Collaborate with various departments, including IT, operations, materials, and engineering, to ensure alignment of goals and data-driven decision-making. Investigate issues with manufacturing applications, conducting root cause analysis and aligning resources to correct the issues. Lead, manage, and participate in cross-functional business projects independently by gathering, documenting, clarifying, and validating business requirements. Define solution design alternatives, estimate high-level project timelines, and communicate functional specifications to developer teams. Train end users through documentation of user guides, training materials, and business processes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in IT or related or equivalent experience
- 3 - 5 years' experience in a manufacturing or corporate business environment
- Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools such as Excel, Power BI, or similar
- Expertise in translating complex datasets into actionable insights using advanced SQL queries and stored procedures
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
- Strong commitment to accuracy, quality, and continuous improvement
- Must be able to deal with ambiguity in a productive and positive manner by bringing the appropriate stakeholders together to gain clarity and consensus for next steps
- Ability to lead, manage, and participate in cross-functional business projects independently
- Ability to gather, document, clarify, and validate business requirements
- Ability to clarify and document current-state, future-state, and the gap that exists between the two states
- Ability to develop and document solution design alternatives, and then lead a group through the collaborative process of finalizing recommendations and documenting rationale
- Ability to estimate high-level project timelines, resource needs, and funding needs
- Ability to define a project to the degree required to gain business support, funding, and resource
- Ability to communicate functional requirement/specifications to developer team
- Ability to lead end users through training and testing by documenting user guides, training materials, business processes, test plans, and then performing the required in-person reviews of the material
- Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes, Lean methodologies, and Six Sigma principles is preferred
- Experience with ERP systems and databases is a plus
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