Business Analyst

We are CorSource Technology Group, a locally owned technical staffing and recruiting firm in Portland, Oregon.

We encourage you to submit your resume to the job posting link, or directly contact: recruiting@corsource.com, 503-726-4545

19820

Business Analyst 2

12 months

Vancouver

This position closes to submittals on July 21st.

Position requires the ability to meet federal background and compliance requirements.

OVERVIEW

Assignment

This full-time contract Business Analyst 2 assignment will provide data and research expertise and assistance to the Transmission Continuous Improvement Program Implementation (TCIPI) Team, a part of the Reliability Operations (TOOD) group, under the Technical Operations (TOO) organization, and System Operations (TO) organization of the Transmission (T) business line at the company. This position serves as an analyst and advisor to the organization’s manager to provide analysis, information, and assistance in planning, organizing, managing, integrating, and evaluating the Transmission Continuous Improvement Program Implementation (TCIPI), Human Organizational Performance (HOP) activities, and After Action Review (AAR) functions.

Organization

Reliability Operations provides expertise in three major areas.

We deliver operational expertise in the field of system restoration, and in power system disturbance monitoring, investigations and response. We provide expert guidance, engineering and analysis, primarily to Dispatch, to operate the transmission system reliably.

We deliver operational expertise in the field of Remedial Action Schemes (RAS). The team provides expert guidance, engineering, and analysis of RAS. The team’s customers include Dispatch, field crews, RAS engineering, System Planners, account executives, customers, Peak, WECC, etc. This team has the overall responsibility of company RAS; everything from writing dispatcher standing orders, supporting RAS modeling, to coordinating Control Center based RAS testing.

We deliver operational expertise in investigations involving human initiated reliability events, driving a team of SMEs to analyze events, perform root cause analysis, and developing lessons learned and corrective actions with a directive of continuously improving reliability.

ASSIGNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Note: All official drafts, documents and recommendations, as listed below, must be reviewed, finalized and approved / accepted by appropriate manager or other federal personnel with the authority to do so.

• Transmission Continuous Improvement Program Implementation (TCIPI) Support
• Develops a coordinated and cost-efficient mechanism for nurturing a learning culture for reliability-based event analysis.
• Identifies operational triggers and causal/contributing factors contributing to inadvertent or mis-operations.
• Provides visibility to mitigation measuring and trend reporting of the systemic drivers impacting the safe and reliable operation of the Bulk Electric System.
• Applies Human Organizational Performance (HOP) principles to facilitate problem solving activities; Focus on identifying and deploying error and mis-operation reduction techniques and; Conduct After Action Report (AAR) or Learning Teams to support incident assessments (IA).
• Facilitates the resolution of mis-operation events and supports the technical implementation of corrective actions within the Transmission organizations.
• Human Organizational Performance (HOP) Planning, Coordination, and Support
• Provides necessary project management support for all human organizational performance activities and reviews compliance with all regulatory and company standards and guidelines related to human organizational performance.
• This position:
• Recognizes the importance of preventing significant human organizational performance events.
• Assists with the continuous support and development of the HOP program. The company HOP program focuses getting workers to discuss error-prevention and wanting to learn more as it relates to detection, prevention, and correction for Reliability.
• Provides data analysis and analytics utilizing data from a multitude of Company’s systems and using various analytical methodologies and techniques.
• Models and enhances business processes and other related models to capture business operations change requirements within defined opportunities or projects, modeling both current and future state, typically using a graphical or business process modeling tool.
• Assists in coordinating cross-organizationally to ensure that human organizational performance is being adopted and implemented consistently.
• Provides data analysis and reporting from various systems across Transmission to support a data driven and metric based approach to Program Management.
• After Action Review (AAR) Team, Learning Teams, and Transmission Incident Review Teams (TIRT) Planning and Coordination
• Establishes a systems-based approach to assessing mishaps, incidents, and near-hits incorporating human and organizational performance principles to identify root-cause factors associated with an event.
• Investigates, researches, and makes recommendations to company management and senior leadership regarding best practices with respects to incident analysis.
• Develop cross-Transmission teams of real-time SMEs to triage system disturbances that appear to have been human-initiated.
• Develops and delivers training on error-reduction tools and implementation of human organizational performance improvement strategies for employees and contractors as it relates to the incident assessment process.
• Provides guidance to the management, senior leadership, employees and training coordinators on the effective use of incident assessment tools.
• Assist in internal and external task forces, committees, and working groups to ensure human organizational performance program is consistent with industry objectives and meets company requirements.
• Benchmarks human organizational performance program and statistics with internal and external organizations as it relates to the functionality and efficiency of the IAT process.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Corresponding Experience

• A degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Accounting, Computer Science, Organizational Development (or a closely related field) is preferred.
• 5 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor’s degree.
• 7 years of experience is required with an applicable associates degree.
• 9 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.
• Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of business analysis, progressively more technical in nature, and include work-related experience as a program analyst, business analyst, systems analyst, project manager, QA analyst or equivalent.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Direct work experience and knowledge of data management principles and methodologies with a solid understanding of how business processes are executed and how data flows through the various operational systems.
• Experience in strong written and verbal communication to disseminate technical information to various audiences.
• Technical interview skills sufficient to facilitate group process design/requirements gathering sessions in a business environment.
• Intermediate to expert proficiency in Visio, including the ability to create complex flowcharts.
• Intermediate proficiency with SharePoint, including the ability to create lists, modify pages and familiarity with workflow.
• Intermediate proficiency MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

All qualified applicants at CorSource Technology Group will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Does this position sound interesting, but perhaps not for you? If you know of a friend or colleague that could be a match, your referral could be worth a referral bonus.

recruiting@corsource.com, 503-726-4545