What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operational Data Analyst position at Professional Resource Group, LLC?
Job Title: Operational Data Analyst
Job #: 3379
Location: Remote, PST
Duration: 1 year contract
About The Team And Process
The role with the Joint Use Office Operation team in the Utility Asset Management department is integral to efficiently managing communication equipment on our poles. The dedicated team is tasked with ensuring adherence to operational processes designed to cater to communication companies (licensees) while upholding safety standards mandated by OPUC, OAR, and NESC regulations. Compliance with strict timelines and obligations set forth by these regulatory bodies remains a top priority for the team, reflecting the professionalism and commitment required to effectively execute their responsibilities.
About The Role And Tools
In this role, the data analyst plays a crucial part in collecting and analyzing data, maintaining databases, preparing insightful reports, develop visualization and creating interactive dashboards for both leadership and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). This position requires seamless collaboration with fellow colleagues to pinpoint areas for enhancing existing reports and analyses, underscoring the necessity for strong communication and problem-solving skills alongside a knack for teamwork to comprehend business processes and requirements effectively.
Proficiency with tools such as SQL, Snowflake, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Excel, and Outlook is paramount.
As typical day-to-day tasks, the data analyst takes on a variety of responsibilities to ensure data-driven decision-making is at the forefront of operational success. This involves
Top 3 Must-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):
5 years of experience
Pre-Employment Requirement
All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About APR Staffing
APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions, founded in 2002, enjoyed an impressive reputation as one of the largest locally-owned and most respected technical staffing companies. Professional Resource Group, aka Data Resource Group, founded in 2009, also earned regional acclaim for being a fast-growing and highly-motivated professional staffing agency. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Job #: 3379
Location: Remote, PST
Duration: 1 year contract
About The Team And Process
The role with the Joint Use Office Operation team in the Utility Asset Management department is integral to efficiently managing communication equipment on our poles. The dedicated team is tasked with ensuring adherence to operational processes designed to cater to communication companies (licensees) while upholding safety standards mandated by OPUC, OAR, and NESC regulations. Compliance with strict timelines and obligations set forth by these regulatory bodies remains a top priority for the team, reflecting the professionalism and commitment required to effectively execute their responsibilities.
About The Role And Tools
In this role, the data analyst plays a crucial part in collecting and analyzing data, maintaining databases, preparing insightful reports, develop visualization and creating interactive dashboards for both leadership and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). This position requires seamless collaboration with fellow colleagues to pinpoint areas for enhancing existing reports and analyses, underscoring the necessity for strong communication and problem-solving skills alongside a knack for teamwork to comprehend business processes and requirements effectively.
Proficiency with tools such as SQL, Snowflake, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Excel, and Outlook is paramount.
As typical day-to-day tasks, the data analyst takes on a variety of responsibilities to ensure data-driven decision-making is at the forefront of operational success. This involves
- Using data in Snowflake, Tableau Extracts, and Excel to extract information from data sets and identify correlations and patterns
- Using Tableau desktop to visualize data in easy-to-understand formats, such as diagrams, graphs, filters, parameters, creating complex calculated fields, creating LOD expression
- Using Tableau server to publish workbooks and data extracts
- Organizing and transforming information into comprehensible structures
- Performing statistical analysis of data
- Preparing reports and presenting these to management or SMEs
- Monitoring data quality and removing corrupt data
- Validating their analysis results
- Communicating with stakeholders to understand data content and business requirements
- Requirement Gathering and Documentation
- Understanding business needs
- Documenting project requirements
- Comfortable with Ambiguity
- Ability to work in uncertain situations
- Adaptability to changing requirements
- Strong Communication Skill Sets
- Clear and concise verbal communication
- Effective written communication
- Strong Active Listening
- Focus on understanding before responding
- Paraphrasing to ensure comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Evaluating information objectively
- Identifying potential solutions
- Analytical Mindset
- Ability to breakdown complex problems
- Utilizing data-driven methods
- Knowledge of Databases like Oracle and Snowflake
- Querying databases for information
- Understanding database structures
- Tableau Desktop
- Creating and designing visualizations
- Data manipulation within Tableau
- Tableau Server
- Publishing and sharing visualizations
- Access control and permissions management
- Excel
- Proficient in using Excel for data analysis and reporting
- Outlook
- Efficiently manage communications and schedules using Outlook
Top 3 Must-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):
- critical thinking
- comfort with ambiguity/change
- Tableau experience
- degree in engineering
- utility experience
- data science experience
5 years of experience
Pre-Employment Requirement
All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About APR Staffing
APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions, founded in 2002, enjoyed an impressive reputation as one of the largest locally-owned and most respected technical staffing companies. Professional Resource Group, aka Data Resource Group, founded in 2009, also earned regional acclaim for being a fast-growing and highly-motivated professional staffing agency. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.