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Job Title: Process Improvement Data Analyst
Role Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Process Improvement Data Analyst to join our manufacturing team. The successful candidate will analyse production, operational, and customer data, and work with cross-functional teams to implement changes that drive process efficiency and performance improvements. This role requires a blend of analytical skills, lean thinking, and hands-on implementation.
Continuous Improvement Analyst – Job Specification
* Focussed on communicating technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
* Managing multiple data sources.
* Working with your Continuous Improvement Engineers to create bespoke, reproducible datasets (i.e. taking the multiple data sources and making them into one, meaningful thing).
* Data visualisation (so Power BI, Tableau, Qlikview etc – all broadly similar though using what the company uses is helpful).
* Time/Project management & Prioritisation (ideally you will be familiar with Agile or another workload management process).
Objectives of the Role:
* Working with your colleagues in the Continuous Improvement team, you will develop, implement, and maintain Continuous Improvement solutions, taking complex requirements from the business and building simple, usable analytics tools.
* Transforming commercial and business-process understanding into actionable insights using new and existing data models that can be clearly communicated to the various stakeholders in the business.
* Create datasets, reports and dashboards based on best-practice in data processing, modelling & visualisation.
* Work in partnership with the BI team and its stakeholders to drive a culture of continuous improvement across all aspects of delivery for the business.
Responsibilities:
* Work closely with the business to understand analytics needs, produce clear project outlines, undertake efficient development, and deliver high-quality solutions to support the site's continuous improvement and efficiency programme.
* Proactively analyse data to answer key questions or provide value-added solutions during development to drive business performance and commercial success.
* Make use of new and existing data sources with a high degree of efficiency to reduce redundancy and improve solution performance.
* In development and maintenance, be conscious of data integrity, security, and protection as a priority.
* Participate in personal and professional development in BI including learning new technologies and taking external certifications.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2+ years working in Continuous Improvement or Lean Manufacturing as a data, systems or business improvement process analyst or similar in a data-adjacent role.
* You will have a passion for continuous improvement.
* The candidate will have proven analytics skills and knowledge of business processes which have resulted in efficiency and process improvements.
* Strong SQL skills and a working knowledge of SQL Server Management Server.
* Ideally you will be at expert proficiency level on Power BI, Tableau or similar and you have an aptitude for learning other analytics tools.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:
* You will have worked in a manufacturing or manufacturing support environment, and you have worked with multiple stakeholders across an organisation.
* Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, statistical analysis, statistics etc.
* Experience with database and model design and normalisation techniques.
* Working knowledge of Azure Analysis Services and model maintenance/development through Visual Studio.
* Practical experience with Azure Data Factory and ETL pipelines.
* Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
If you are interested in this new job opportunity, then please send your CV to shane.gleeson@cpl.ie in complete confidence and I will review and respond to you within 24 hours.
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