Sr. Business Analyst 1st Shift

Airlite Plastics is a premier, privately held, family‑owned manufacturer headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Our family style and personal culture is what makes Airlite an amazing place to grow and build a successful career. Airlite’s company values of unquestionable integrity and respect and appreciation for each other are at the core of our success! These values set a strong foundation to build on where we can ‘wow’ our customers with innovative products and sustainable solutions, and continuously improve our processes and efficiencies.

Our product lines include rigid plastic containers and lids for food packaging and cosmetics, dry powder scoops, plastic drink cups, shipping containers, industrial strength insulated concrete forms (ICF) and sustainable permeable paving systems. As pioneers in our industry, focused on sustainable solutions, we strive to provide our customers with top‑notch service and quality, which aligns with our award‑winning products.

This role is a contributing member of our Airlite – Omaha team, located in Omaha, NE. As a Sr. Business Analyst our are a key to continued growth and success of Airlite. The Sr. Business Analyst serves as the subject matter expert in enterprise business processes across Airlite Plastics’ commercial and custom applications. This position sits at the intersection of business analysis, ERP functional expertise, and system configuration—encompassing requirements gathering, process design, user training, acceptance testing, and hands‑on ERP administration.

The Sr. Business Analyst partners with stakeholders across all divisions to document current‑state processes, design future‑state solutions, and drive continuous improvement within the ERP environment (IQMS/DELMIAworks) and integrated systems spanning production, warehouse management, scheduling, MRP, order processing, and financial reporting.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in the business analyst role with departmental employees, and management to document business needs.
• Document requirements, business processes, swimlane charts, and diagrams of current business practices.
• Identify gaps in current workflows and business processes; gather stakeholder input to define operational objectives and output requirements.
• Create functional and design specifications based on business needs.
• Lead, define, author, and update business process documentation on designed processes.
• Work within project management software to prioritize and update tasks as assigned to achieve project timeline.
• Conduct training and user acceptance meetings with internal customers to ensure designed solution meets business needs.
• Design and conduct testing procedures related to designed business processes for the ERP application, as well as custom software integrations.
• Implement finalized designed solutions for internal and external customers.
• Evaluate current system usage and recommend targeted improvements that align with evolving business needs.
• Analyze and optimize current use of the ERP application within business needs; including newly released features applicable to an internal business unit.
• Actively engage in the evolution of the ERP system to enhance internal business processes.
• Identify process gaps and recommend controls, writing clear and actionable improved procedures.
• Perform and maintain system set‑ups, configurations and parameter settings.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Successful candidates for the role will possess the following:

• Capability to solve complex problems, utilizing strong critical thinking and decision making skills.
• Superior organizational skills and the ability to assemble resources needed to orchestrate multiple projects/activities and accomplish goals.
• Model a collaborative leadership style with the ability to build partnerships and influence others into action.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and consultative approach; tactful in dealing with people at all levels.
• Strong sense of urgency, self‑motivated…