Business Analyst

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Engineering Birmingham , Alabama Contract To Hire  Oct 2, 2026

IT Business Analyst

$28.85/hr

8:00 AM–5:00 PM or 9:00 AM–6:00 PM

Rotates approximately every 7 weeks

• Candidate Profile: Not looking for someone right out of school; needs someone with hands-on workplace experience who can hit the ground running
• Role Focus: Heavy emphasis on continuous improvement of business processes, reporting/data, ERP systems, and supporting the manufacturing environment
• Audit Responsibility: Will be the primary IT resource for Kamtek audits
• Key Experience Discussed: EDI, Power BI, ERP/CMS, SAP, manufacturing, and building reports/queries

• Business Systems Alignment:
  Analyze business requirements and ensure ERP/CMS, EDI, reporting, and data collection systems support current and future business processes.
• Industry 4.0 / IoT Enablement:
  Develop, recommend, and support standard concepts for connecting PLCs, equipment, SCADA, OPC/Kepware, MQTT, SQL, Power BI, and other systems into their IoT architecture.
• Application and Report Development:
  Develop or supervise development of applications, reports, dashboards, integrations, and custom functions that support ERP/CMS, shop-floor, inventory, production, quality, and label-printing needs.
• ERP/CMS and EDI Support:
  Provide functional and technical support for ERP/CMS modules, EDI mappings, vendor/customer connections, data interfaces, reporting, and related external applications.
• Data Governance and Accuracy:
  Validate shop-floor, production, inventory and quality data with business owners and Controls resources to ensure reporting accuracy and traceability.
• Documentation and Training:
  Maintain process documentation, technical specifications, security documentation, data-flow diagrams, training materials, and support knowledge articles.
• Compliance and Change Control:
  Follow approved change-management processes and support cybersecurity, TISAX, SOX, IT security, license, backup, and access-control requirements.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Facilitate improvement projects, identify process waste, develop KPIs, and recommend technology solutions that improve system utilization and return on investment.

• Follow and enforce all plant safety rules and policies.
• Understand and promote Magna’s philosophies, including Magna Operational Principles, Corporate Constitution, and Employee’s Charter.
• Design, document, implement, and support Industry 4.0 solutions using SCADA systems such as Ignition, SQL databases, Power BI, OPC/Kepware, MQTT, and approved application platforms.
• Support ERP/CMS configuration, reporting, data integration, implementation, testing, and process improvement activities across departments.
• Create, maintain, test, and troubleshoot EDI maps, vendor/customer connections, scheduled EDI jobs, and ANSI X12 or EDIFACT transaction processes as applicable.
• Develop reports, dashboards, KPIs, metrics, monitoring tools, and data models to support production, quality, inventory, maintenance, and management decision-making.
• Work with Controls Engineering and plant resources to verify the accuracy of shop-floor data collected from PLCs, equipment, SCADA, MES-like systems, and other data sources.
• Support custom shop-floor applications, label printing applications, inventory reporting applications, production reporting applications, and related integrations.
• Design, configure, and maintain label printing processes, including Zebra printer logic, Zebra Programming Language requirements, print templates, and data-driven label output.
• Develop new techniques to connect legacy equipment to modern infrastructure while maintaining safe, supportable, and secure integration practices.
• Create detailed…