Business Analyst - Any Line Shop Location OH at FirstEnergyAkron, OH, United States — full-time

Description

Business Analyst

Location: Any First Energy line shop location within OH

FirstEnergy at a Glance

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp.

This is a full-time, on-site position that can be located in any of our OH Line Shop locations:

Responsibilities:

Designing, building, and optimizing relational databases, custom macros/modules, and automation tools within the Microsoft Office suite (specifically Access and Excel).
Translate complex business requirements into clean, scalable, and user-friendly automation solutions.
Create intuitive, user-friendly GUIs, forms, dashboards, and reporting interfaces for non-technical end-users.
Analyze and upgrade existing legacy databases, spreadsheets, and VBA applications to improve performance and stability.
Write technical documentation and user guides for the tools and scripts.
The following tasks will be more as a backup or as needed to support the other Business Analysts in the department:
- Facilitating recurring meetings to discuss the work plans. Attendees include the short term planning personnel, the Operations Manager (when available), and Engineering personnel with responsibility for the designers.
- Collecting agreed upon target changes for remaining work and remaining absences via recurring meetings and collaboration with key stakeholders. Entering collected data into a change log and providing to the database administrator for implementation in the database.
- Preparing, publishing, and/or distributing WMO Consolidated Planning reports as needed.

Promoting safety and safe work practices.
Providing sto