Location: Vancouver, Washington
* Type: Contract
* Job #8594
Overview:
ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Business Analyst 3 will lead and support multiple projects from initiation through completion, analyzing data across systems, identifying discrepancies, and aligning reporting with project milestones. The role facilitates requirements gathering sessions, collaborates with stakeholders and SMEs, and develops project plans, schedules, and deliverables while tracking progress and resolving issues. Responsibilities include reviewing engineering documentation, supporting control center systems, maintaining project records, and ensuring compliance with data governance standards. Requires a relevant degree (or equivalent experience), 8-12 years of progressively technical business analysis experience, strong data management knowledge, and proficiency with tools such as Visio, MS Project, Access, and SharePoint. Experience with control center systems, power system operations, and applicable ind
ustry standards is essential. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.
Pay Rate: $41.9 - $59.87
Benefits:
* Paid holidays: 11
* PTO: Starting at 10 days
* Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
* EAP: Employee Assistance Program
* Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
* Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program
Responsibilities:
* Support and facilitate manager-assigned project or multiple projects, relating primarily to operational requirements for Transmission Grid changes, from beginning to end in collaboration with senior management, external industry entities, subject matter experts, and stakeholders by:
* Analyze existing data across multiple data sources and update source systems for energization date changes.
* Collect, compile and report on data discrepancies from multiple data sources.
* Research business intelligence reporting output and relate it to design and construction milestones for in-flight capital projects.
* Facilitate working sessions, collaborate, document, and participate in discussions with various groups within the Control Center, Transmission Technology, Asset Management, the Outage Office, project management team, and other interested parties to gather project requirements (and comments), develop and recommend project work plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, etc.
* Facilitate and maintain consistent communication with the project sponsor, performance managers, subject matter experts, and clients on the progress of projects versus the plans. Manage and maintain tools to track project progress and task completion to support control center activities with design, construction, and system / equipment testing schedules when projects are placed into the work plan.
* Coordinate, arrange, facilitate, and document business requirements gathering sessions; conduct needs analysis from various stakeholder perspectives; work with SMEs and the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) to review, draft and recommend project specifications.
* Research, collect, and document project documents, drawings, relevant links and modeling information to support the needs of control center Energy Management Systems (EMS) programmers and System Administrators.
* Ability to review and analyze standard engineering drawings and project explanations, similar to Project Require
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