Our Operations Data Analyst will be in charge of:
- Analyzing operations data to improve shop operations;
- Utilizing operations data and managing scheduling software to generate the company’s production plan;
- Collaborating with managers and company leadership to formulate the operations strategy; and
- Conducting operational performance evaluations to identify opportunities for improvement.
Responsibilities
- Collect, organize, and analyze operations data and communicate your insights to the operations team and company leaders
- Formulate the scheduling strategy to achieve on time delivery targets
- With the support of scheduling software, simulate various scenarios to recommend strategic approaches for decisionmakers
- Communicate the pros and cons of schedules and associated risks with internal stakeholders
- Operate scheduling tools like TACTIC and ERP systems like Epicor to create operations schedules
- Identify data issues and areas for training and partner with operations teams to support training to address these issues
- Track the success of our tools and processes through the creation and monitoring of KPIs and dashboards
- Collaborate effectively with partners and stakeholders
Requirements
What You Have Done
- 3+ years of total experience
- 2+ years of data analyst, business operations, intelligence, or analysis experience (e.g. business analyst, business operations, etc.) or a similar role within a manufacturing or production environment
- Knowledge of business analytics best practices and of the use of tools such as Visio or Lucid Charts
- Experience with ERP or CRM systems, scheduling software, and a strong understanding of production metrics and KPIs.
- Experience and a good understanding of tools like SQL Excel, and PowerBI (or other BI related tools) and experience in designing, tracking and operationalizing analytical dashboards
- Exposure to a wide range of business issues, especially those across IT, Operations, and Finance
- BA / BS in a STEM or business-related discipline
Desired Requirements
- Experience working with a scheduling system
- Operations research background
- Project management experience; a plus if it is in business or IT related projects
- Previous consulting or investment banking experience
- Experience in manufacturing, especially at job shops
- Proven experience in assessing and implementing IT solutions
- Python or other programming languages
- MS (in STEM) or MBA
Who You Are
- You’re highly collaborative, you thrive on receiving input, you know how to ask the right questions.
- You enjoy challenges. Challenges excite you; they don’t intimidate you. You are persistent and determined to continue working when you encounter obstacles.
- You are an effective, succinct communicator. You can take something really complex and figure out a simple way to communicate it, so stakeholders follow your rationale.
- You’re flexible. You are not easily daunted by obstacles, but rather find ways around them
- You are humble. You realize that years of institutional knowledge are critical, and that your role is to make this knowledge readily available and useable
- You’re a good negotiator. You’re experienced enough to ask vendors the hard questions and to require rigor in quality and fairness in pricing
- You like numbers, you like digging into numbers and processes using various known techniques to understand underlying root-causes