Business Analyst - Asplundh Innovate

Business Analyst- Asplundh Innovate

Job Type : Exempt

Pay : Salary

Are you a real go-getter looking for an amazing opportunity with a nationwide full-service-utility contractor offering competitive wages and incredible benefits? Keep reading because this job might be for you!

Since 1928, Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient, and innovative line clearance services for the utility industry. Reliable, uninterrupted power is an important service provided by the world's electrical utilities and Asplundh has the expertise to help keep the power flowing. Over the years, diversification has opened vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation.

A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh has grown to employ over 33,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Benefits

• Benefits Available and vary per position and location.

About the Opportunity

Asplundh Tree Expert (Asplundh) is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Asplundh Innovate Team, reporting to the Application Development Manager. The Innovate Team provide digital technology & solutions across key parts of the business and have international relations with the Australian Tech Team. They are a diverse international team that operate across all levels of the business. This position can work remotely.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a key member of the Innovate Team to develop and support critical business solutions & projects, including the Vegetation & Asset Management Solution.

• Collaborate with development, reporting and business intelligence platforms

• Provide support to understand and determine high-level business requirements and then develop dashboards to identify trends and value creation opportunities.

• Support efforts to improve data integrity and quality.

• Identify and develop processes that improve efficiency and derive value for the organization.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Strong communication skills, performance & proficiency management, time management, coordination, training, financial planning and strategy management, efficient in standards development, sound in decision making and strategic management, positive approach.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Business Analyst role

• Understanding of technology platforms including FME, SQL & Power BI is preferred.

• Experience with software development life cycle

• Ability to assess a situation, seek multiple perspectives, gather more information if necessary, and identify key issues that need to be addressed; breaking information into components, patterns and relationships, probing for further information or greater understanding of a problem.

• Exceptional listener and communicator who effectively conveys information verbally and in writing.

• Resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with customers and colleagues.

• Strong aptitude for process improvement and change management.

• Knowledge of or experience working with utility and or government clients (desirable).

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

Physical Requirements

• Rarely: walking, Kneeling, Squatting, Crawling, Climbing, Color Vision, Lifting, Carrying, Pushing, Pulling, Climbing Ladders, Balancing, Lifting up to 10lbs, Lifting 10lbs to 50lbs, Lifting over 50lbs.

• Occasionally: Standing, Stooping, Body Twisting, Seeing Distant, Climbing On/Off Truck, Gripping, Reaching, Range of Motion, Depth Perception, Climbing Stairs.

• Frequently : Sitting, Sense of Touch, Manual Dexterity, Speaking Clearly, Reading, Hearing-Speech Range.

• Constantly: Seeing.

Safety

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods, be able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments, be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, be able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, be capable of performing job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, be able to communicate with others, read, write, and comprehend written/verbal job instructions and information, and communicate and handle conflict professionally.

• Able to identify job site hazards.

• Exhibits and carries out cognitive problem-solving skills.

• Able to read, comprehend, and visualize job build and all prints.

• Works near/around energized, hazardous parts and equipment.

• Exposed to traffic.

• Works around excessive noise from machines (bore drill, backhoe, trencher, mini excavator, bucket trucks, digger derricks, concrete saw, jackhammers).

• May be exposed to hot and cold environments, poisonous plants or reptiles, and stinging insects.

About Us

As a full-service utility contractor, Asplundh performs tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, vegetation management with herbicides, and emergency storm work and logistical support. Asplundh is the parent company of UtiliCon Solutions whose subsidiaries provide overhead and underground line construction, planning and design, meter reading and AMR/AMI installation, electrical testing, and street lighting/traffic signal services. Asplundh also operates Rotor Blade Airborne Utilities Management, overhead electric distribution, and transmission lines using MD 500 helicopters.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at ~~~, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.