Senior Operations Analyst (ONSITE)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for an Operations Analyst for their Vancouver, Washington location. This position’s key responsibilities include formulating and applying various modeling techniques and optimizing methods to develop and validate information that aids management in decision making, policy formulation, and process development. Additionally, the role focuses on collecting and analyzing data, analyzing workflow, and developing process analysis and decision support information and documents.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Pay Range: $59.00 - $62.50/hr. DOE.
Location: Vancouver, WA. (ONSITE)
Key Responsibilities for Operations Analyst:
- Provide project management support for compliance mitigation plans and asset strategy initiatives:
- Track mitigation dates.
- Follow-up with assigned resources to verify action items for mitigation plans are completed on-time.
- Facilitate meetings to address questions related to compliance and asset strategy plans and initiatives.
- Create reports and timelines detailing status of mitigation plan activities.
- Perform quarterly review of users with authorized cyber access to systems and unescorted physical access to Critical Cyber Assets, Access and Control Monitoring (ACM) Cyber Assets.
- Lead / facilitate project initiatives and process improvement efforts arising from Process Support and Management team processes.
- Evaluate current org processes and policies alignment to compliance standards and regulations for accuracy with the standard. Recommend changes to management.
- Draft management reporting tools that document and communicate the progress of standards-related activities to verify timely completion.
- Participate in Incident Reviews (IRs) and Rapid Response Team (RRT) meetings, represent the implementing manager to provide information, evidence, and artifacts that apply to compliance incidents.
- Provide recommendations to management to mitigate, comment on, or provide further review for NERC and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) proposed rulemaking and policies.
- Draft and recommend processes and procedures.
- Assist in the maintenance and execution of the implemented procedures, which may include assistance with change management.
- Provide direct support for data calls and industry surveys. This consists of review and analysis of existing documentation and any new/changing requirements; confer with appropriate SMEs for input; and draft control center responses for management review.
- Organize, monitor, analyze, and report on performance / metrics pertaining to data call artifacts collection and processes.
- Maintain and update process artifacts, verifying they are up-to-date and of adequate quality (reliable, consistent, and useful).
- Draft, recommend, and provide briefings, as requested, to staff and managers on information quality to raise awareness, transfer knowledge on information quality fundamentals, and best practices.
- Provide input and recommendations regarding how information is organized and displayed in SharePoint and the CCN library.
- Provide budgetary tracking and analysis for services, equipment orders, O&M trending cost, and expense tail tracking.
- Assist in tracking access (physical and cyber) privileges granted for the control center and maintain current system privilege, and resource manager information.
- Coordinate with the Security and Compliance Team (SCT) and the training office to verify completion of NERC-CIP training before granting new cyber, physical, or logical access and yearly to verify all current access grants maintain training requirements.
- Maintain up-to-date, auditable documentation of security privilege control processes.
- Develop new tools, drafting training, and present training to facilitate move to new processes
- Assist management in implementing and integration of automated data management procedures.
- Collect, organize, and validate data and model results to establish data reporting completeness, accuracy, and quality.
Requirements for Operations Analyst:
- An associate or bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business management/administration, organizational development, or closely related technical discipline is preferred.
- 8-12 years’ experience required.
- 8+ years’ experience: Written communication and technical writing to interpret SME’s input and convert into meaningful performance target language.
- Expert proficiency: Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, SharePoint, Access.
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
PG/BH #12603
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $59.00 - $62.50 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Operational analysis: 8 years (Required)
- technical writing: 8 years (Required)
- Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, SharePoint, Access: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person