Sr. Systems Analyst - MES

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's IT department is looking for a Senior Systems Analyst - MES to join our Digital Manufacturing team! This role will be key to success in growing and maintaining our MES platforms.

This key role will partner with the business to deliver both tactical and strategic solutions, ensuring initiatives provide expected business value through project execution, collaboration, and stakeholder communication. Success will be achieved by leveraging cross-functional relationships in helping to deliver process and technology solutions within the manufacturing environment.

Our Team

The Senior Systems Analyst - MES will be part of an international team that designs, develops and delivers MES (Manufacturing Execution System) solutions for Georgia-Pacific. The MES team at Georgia-Pacific creates value by advancing an enterprise MES capability that is accurate, consistent, and user-friendly to all manufacturing users so that they can drive continuous improvement. This role will help support, maintain and create new solutions to advance our MES platform as we standardize across business segments and introduce new ERP functionality.

What You Will Do

• Designing, testing, and troubleshooting of application features and data/system integrations
• Documenting requirements and creating specifications for new features
• Working directly with stakeholders to analyze requirements, design solutions, and use available data to guide strategic platform growth
• Performing application configuration and code changes to satisfy business needs
• Defining technology roadmaps based on business and IT strategies
• Developing and implementing customer adoption strategies for new MES functionality
• Providing daily support to end users of MES platforms, including providing after-hours support on a rotating schedule

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working with an MES platform, or in applying MES concepts in a technical role
• SQL Server experience - complex queries, database design, T-SQL
• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Prior success with customer adoption of MES and related systems, especially when integrated with an ERP
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT or manufacturing experience
• Experience developing with and supporting Ignition, especially with MES solutions
• Programming/Scripting in Python, experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Strong manufacturing background with proven experience understanding operations processes

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

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