AI Data Analyst

Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support. We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity. We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes.

Elessent Clean Technologies is seeking an AI Data Analyst to support our growing internal AI and analytics program. This role applies AI, automation, and data tools to solve real business problems — including dashboard development, workflow automation, AI agent prototyping, document processing, and user training. You will work closely with teams across engineering, operations, finance, and corporate functions to understand how work is performed, identify opportunities to improve speed and consistency, and deliver practical solutions using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power BI, Microsoft Office, and AI assisted development tools such as Cursor. Projects are typically short and outcome driven (weeks, not months), giving you frequent exposure to different business challenges and clear visibility into the impact of your work. In addition to building solutions, you will help enable others by supporting dashboards, lightweight apps or agents, and hands on training that accelerates adoption of AI tools across the organization. As part of this role, you will also support efforts to organize and prepare company information for use with AI knowledge agents. This work helps ensure dashboards, workflows, and AI tools are built on consistent, well organized, and trusted sources, enabling reliable analytics, automation, and AI assisted insights. This position emphasizes delivery, collaboration, and continuous learning, rather than research or theoretical data science.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities:
Understand and improve workflows

• Meet with internal teams to understand how work is currently performed
• Identify manual steps, handoffs, data silos, and bottlenecks
• Help prioritize AI and automation opportunities with clear success criteria

Build practical AI powered solutions

• Use tools such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate research, drafting, and solution design
• Build and iterate on AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio to support internal workflows
• Use Cursor or similar AI assisted development environments to rapidly prototype and refine lightweight scripts or automations
• Create document processing workflows that extract, structure, and validate data

Work with Microsoft platforms

• Build solutions that integrate with Microsoft Office and SharePoint based collaboration tools
• Use metadata, AI assisted tagging, and knowledge agents to improve information organization and reuse
• Support dashboards or analytics solutions where AI or automation improves visibility and insight

Enable others to use AI effectively

• Create clear documentation, templates, and examples
• Support hands on training sessions and informal walkthroughs
• Help non technical users adopt AI tools safely and productively in their daily work

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

• Deliver 1-2 well-scoped AI or automation solutions that reduce manual effort, improve turnaround time, or increase consistency
• Contribute to a document processing or knowledge enablement solution that supports reporting, automation, or AI assisted workflows
• Establish a simple, repeatable way to share progress and outcomes with stakeholders (e.g., brief summaries, examples, demos)

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience level: 0–2 years of relevant experience, including internships, academic projects, or self directed work involving AI, analytics, or automation
• AI proficiency: Hands on experience using tools such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot to research, prototype, or improve workflows
• Analytical mindset: Ability to understand business processes, identify inefficiencies, and propose practical, measurable improvements
• Communication skills: Comfortable explaining AI assisted solutions to non technical audiences and supporting adoption through clear guidance or training
• Technical foundation: Basic familiarity with scripting or logic (e.g., Python, VBA, or similar), or the ability to use AI tools to generate and adapt code as needed
• Microsoft Office proficiency: Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with the ability to incorporate AI outputs into everyday business tools
• Ownership and initiative: Willingness to take ideas from concept to completion, document work clearly, and stay focused on delivering real business value

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Experience supporting or leading workshops, training sessions, or enablement efforts related to digital tools, automation, or process improvement
• Familiarity with using AI for data extraction, summarization, reporting, or analysis
• Experience building lightweight dashboards or visual reports to support business decision making
• Interest in emerging AI applications for engineering, analytics, or business process optimization

Positions are open to candidates authorized to work in the United States for any employer. Elessent Clean Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.