Operations Analyst - Biomass

Job Summary

Location: Detroit, MI

Provides analytical, budget, process, and system support for business unit. Works independently and identifies appropriate course of action to analyze issues, recommend solutions and administer programs for Operations and Asset Management reporting. Manages and coordinates various administrative and technical programs. Performs analysis, research, and studies, and prepares various reports including gas curve modeling. Develop rules for data integrity and automated implementation for compliance with California Air Resource Board (CARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program. Support monitoring plan updates in coordination with operations and asset management.

Key Accountabilities

• Perform monthly data reporting for regulated programs ensuring data meets program requirements
  in close coordination with regulated program manager.
• Develop tools for automated data integrity to support credit generating registration and ongoing
  reporting. Deploy best practices across project portfolio on proper file completion and verification of
  data. Work closely with engineering to ensure data reliability.
• Manage dairy and landfill gas curves, updating models and comparing predicted values to actual
  for forecast improvement
• Update factors of revenue and Key Process Indicators (KPIs) to provide performance feedback to
  operations and escalate concerns
• Works with operations to understand gaps to performance requirements and forecasting of
  production
• Tracks data for metric measurements; leading development of PowerBI reporting and dashboarding
  of KPIs
• Responsible for process flow documentation, preparing countermeasure worksheets to improve
  process design, identifying waste, adding pre-specifications and embedded tests to continuously
  improve departmental processes
• Coordinates budget data and information from groups throughout the department and generates
  required reports by assigned deadlines
• Performs investigations and moderately complex analyses statistical, trend, root cause, etc.
• Assists remote sites/startups with managing business unit requirements
• Performs all other related duties as assigned

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of three years of budget development and operational reporting/management experience is required

Other Qualifications

Preferred:    

• Prior experience with land fill and/or dairy operations

Other Requirements:  

• Knowledge of operations business culture
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project, Access, Excel); exceptional Excel skills given priority
• Demonstrated experience creating pivot tables, charts, graphs, etc. in Excel
• Understanding of Metrics and Measurements for achieving targeted results and making performance gaps apparent
• Understanding and application of capital accounting rules

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

The physical demands characterized here epitomize those that must be met by an employee to properly perform the integral functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. In order to properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to:

• Occasionally stand or walk and stoop or kneel. Frequently, the employee is required to sit 
• Talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use wrists, hands and/or fingers in a repetitive motion; and reach with hands and arms extensively
• Occasionally lift objects of up to 10 pounds in weight
• Use computers with exposure to video display terminals; and some repetitive motion associated with data entry, the use of a computer mouse, and while using other office equipment
• Vision requirements for this position include close vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

The employee performs job duties primarily in a work from home capacity and periodically from a climate-controlled office environment, with a moderate noise level. However, on an occasional basis the employee may be required to travel to project sites where noise levels and environmental conditions may vary.

Additional Information

Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the activities and accountabilities and utilize a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision.