Senior Business Analyst - Manufacturing

Job Overview

As a Senior Business Analyst specializing in Manufacturing, you will help Komatsu to support existing plants as well as to build and deploy new solutions such as MES/MOM and OT Security. As such, you will use your industry insights and experience to understand and enrich our product vision. Main tasks will include performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting processes and process changes, relaying requirements to downstream technical teams for build and deploy functions, and coordinating user acceptance testing. To succeed in this role you should have strong communications skills, an analytical way of thinking and be able to quickly learn, absorb, and explain complex business concepts as well as IT enablement concepts.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify and capture business requirements, documenting those in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Analyze and document current processes, changes to processes, and/or new processes to be defined, including cross-functional impacts across business functions.
• Cascade requirements to downstream technical teams, including providing explanations as needed to build teams and/or project teams.
• Make configuration changes to manufacturing applications or PLCs, including system updates as needed, and provide business support.
• Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
• Lead meetings, e.g., business requirements review, testing engagement, etc.
• Actively participate in formal presentations to a variety of management levels.
• Coordinate system/user testing as required; analyze and validate testing results.
• Act as a reference and provide support to application users with respect to questions arising from application/functionality adoption and use.
• Perform rules authoring as required to support business requirements
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in manufacturing.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field
• Minimum of five years of prior Business Analyst experience or equivalent experience supporting Manufacturing systems.
• Strong understanding of process engineering and re-engineering, as well as process optimization.
• Experience with manufacturing systems, from PLCs to SCADA, and MES/MOM systems.
• Familiarity with DevOps platforms, including documentation of epics/user stories/features, as well as requirements traceability (RTM).

Proven track record of success enterprise deployments related to:
o Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
o Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
o Remanufacturing (REMAN) processes
o Operation Technology (OT) Security
o SCADA systems
o PLCs, and other shop-floor systems.
o General manufacturing processes

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