Data Analyst - Decatur, IL

Position Summary

The Reporting and Data Specialist is responsible for building, maintaining, enhancing and leveraging data, information and reporting systems for the Decatur East Plant. This role is a critical partner and stakeholder in ensuring the integrity of the site process, production and quality information, and delivers value by fostering clear and confident direction and data-based decision making.

Job Responsibilities

• OSI PI Subject matter expert and super-user for site
• Ownership of all PI reporter content
• Upgrade and maintain existing content
• Align production reports
• Engineer out redundancy and inefficiency in production reporting workflow
• Automate production reporting where possible
• Construct and maintain PI asset framework hierarchy
• Ownership of PI Vision Dashboards
• Align and streamline to reduce redundancy and obsolescence
• Utility reporting
• Daily and monthly process analysis and allocation tie-out
• Align with operations and improvement team on yield reporting
• Long term goal of rebuilding yield file, in partnership with accounting, operations, and engineering
• Support Improvement team along with plant leadership to implement and track performance metrics to maintain or improve the effectiveness of operating assets
• Partner and support with quality, maintenance and EHS teams to optimize and streamline data and reporting products
• Partner with and provide local support for initiatives such as digital SMS, digital value stream mapping, advanced analytics, business intelligence, QMS systems and industrial transformation and modernization

Job Requirements

• BS degree required in engineering, computer science, IT or equivalent
• 5+ years in process operations with preferred exposure to engineering, project and operations management, or, 5+ years in IT management systems and data processing and architecture systems coupled with strong process operations acumen
• Operations experience is preferred
• Dedication to working safely and to the awareness for the safety of others
• Excellent communication and people skills for working with plant personnel and regional management
• Willingness to spend time in plant areas – tolerate extreme temperatures, walk long distances, stand, climb stairs and ladders and move through close spaces
• Ability to work effectively on a team as well as independently while traveling to remote plant locations

Skills

• Problem solving, diagnostic and analytical skills, with a result focused approach
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team player with a propensity for collaboration
• Working knowledge of data and analytics architecture, data warehousing concepts, and data integration best practices is helpful
• Awareness-level or better competency in several to all of the following platforms and systems: SQL, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Javascript, Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, Web development, Visual Studio, Excel PowerQuery, and Power BI is helpful
• Self-motivated work habits and capable of prioritizing and balancing resources between multiple simultaneous initiatives
• Direct experience in applicable manufacturing unit operations preferred, for example: soybean extraction/refining, spray drying, dry blending, emulsions, reactions, separations, distillation, filtration, corn wet milling is helpful but not necessary in this role
• Controls and plant automation knowledge or experience is very helpful
• Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

Benefits And Perks

• Physical wellness – medical/Rx, dental, vision and on-site wellness center access or gym reimbursement (as applicable)
• Financial wellness – flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401(k) with matching contributions and cash balance plan, discounted employee stock purchasing program, life insurance, disability, workers’ compensation, legal assistance, identity theft protection
• Mental and social wellness – Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Colleague Giving Programs (ADM Cares)
• Additional Benefits Include Paid time off including paid holidays
• Adoption assistance and paid maternity and parental leave
• Tuition assistance
• Company-sponsored training and development resources, such as LinkedIn Learning, language training and mentoring programs

About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over.