Manufacturing Business Analyst

Location & Job Information

1110 East Lincoln Way, Laporte, IN,  (On-site).

Job Schedule:

Full time.

This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.

• Data-informed consultant – listens well to understand processes and critical performance aspects, then provides data-informed insights and recommendations; maintains focus as an internal partner versus outside observer; balances predictive insights with problem solving and allocates time (both to projects and globally) accordingly.
• Strategy support – understands plant, campus, segment and enterprise strategy and prioritizes efforts accordingly; quantifies prospective interventions using common metrics; uses analytics to improve stakeholders' ability to identify and achieve toward established hoshin.
• Forecast oriented – comprehends how both project and system-oriented decisions and interventions scale into the future; analyzes trends, anticipates business needs based on partner input and prioritizes focal points accordingly.
• Persuasion and influence – is objectively persuasive based on data, and interpersonally persuasive based on the ability to create trust and emphasize common goals; overcomes skepticism and invites hypothesis testing; understands the culture and how to accomplish things within it, yet has the courage to challenge existing methods.
• System creation – standardizes data use to create structure and systems of information and access; makes recommendations that, over time, alter existing systems or create new systems.
• Measurement implementation – collaborates with stakeholders to create measurement for interventions; tracks effectiveness as a guiding standard; learns information and outcomes that might initially be unfamiliar or outside incumbent expertise; maximizes and proves returns on investment at local and global levels.
• Builder/creator – has an entrepreneurial spirit to build a position/department/practice that grows and provides increasing benefits over time; enjoys the challenge of creating possibilities and proving concepts; believes in the prospective benefits and wants to scale them.
• Translator and storyteller – acts as liaison between information and application; synthesizes information and conveys it in the best form for stakeholder understanding and use; creates narratives from numbers, creating clear and engaging ideal state scenarios toward which the enterprise can strive.
• Complexity comfort – manages the tension between what we know and what we don't know, between what we can implement now and what we must implement later; understands the breadth and depth of available information, yet introduces it to others in discerned measures, always toward practical and aspirational outcomes; transitions between global and local focus with ease.
• Interpersonally adept – builds and maintains relationships at varying levels throughout the organization; inspires trust and connection based on objectivity, expertise and curiosity.

• Serve as the plant's Power BI owner; build, maintain, and continuously improve dashboards tracking production rate, yield, downtime, scrap, and quality.
• Serve as the site's subject matter expert and primary user for OHCMS; act as backup to the Lot Trace Administrator and maintain lot integrity across production operations.
• Support inventory management functions including data pulls, reconciliation support, and reporting tied to production and supply chain accuracy.
• Pull, clean, and consolidate production data from MES systems including OHCMS; establish and maintain data standards and governance protocols for site-level data.
• Perform cost modeling in support of manufacturing engineering and operations decisions.
• Translate raw operational data into actionable insights for frontline supervisors and plant leadership.
• Analyze and disseminate data to relevant audiences.
• Make recommendations based on synthesis and interpretation of data.
• Align recommendations to business outcomes.
• Serve as link between information and application functions.
• Create and monitor standardized systems of…