Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst

Worker Type

Regular

Job Description

Summary

The Directed Energy Sr Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst serves as the bridge between manufacturing operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and information technology. This role gathers, analyzes, documents, and prioritizes business and technical requirements for manufacturing systems, including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

The analyst supports system implementations, process improvements, integrations, data governance, testing, training, and ongoing operational support. The position ensures that manufacturing applications effectively support product development, production planning, material control, shop-floor execution, quality processes, traceability, and business reporting.

Position Responsibilities

Requirements and Process Analysis

- Partner with business stakeholders to understand current and future-state manufacturing processes. - Elicit, document, validate, and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements. - Translate business needs into clear user stories, use cases, process flows, specifications, and acceptance criteria. - Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for automation. - Facilitate workshops with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT teams. - Ensure requirements are aligned across PLM, ERP, MRP, MES,…