Business Analyst, Construction & Equipment

J.D. Irving, Limited; Saint John; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in New Brunswick is seeking a Business Analyst to enhance IT solutions supporting their Construction & Equipment Division. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational skills and at least 3 years of experience in a business setting, preferably in IT or related fields. Key responsibilities include documenting business processes, understanding business needs, and collaborating on IT roadmaps. This full-time position demands a detail-oriented professional with excellent communication skills and a proactive approach to learning.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years work experience in a business environment.
• Preferably experience in IT, Construction, or Manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of mobile applications and devices.

Responsibilities

• Support the Construction & Equipment Division as part of the IT Team.
• Understand how IT supports business success.
• Document business processes and build use cases.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Organizational skills

Communication

Customer focused

Analytical skills

Technically inclined

Process oriented

Continuous learner

Education

University degree or college diploma

Tools

Microsoft O365

Power Platform

SharePoint

Azure Dev Ops

Job description

Are you curious about how technology and processes drive business and innovation? You don’t need to have a technical background to grow into the IT world. If you are motivated by connecting with others and leading change this is an opportunity to spread your wings in a new, diverse, and critical position within a fast-paced environment. To be successful as a Business Analyst you will need to live and breathe detail. Organization is your middle name, and no one can lead a meeting as effectively as you. We are seeking aptitude and passion to learn, grow and contribute.

Responsibilities will include eliciting and documenting the actual needs of stakeholders—which frequently involves investigating and clarifying their expressed desires—to determine underlying business requirements.

With support, Business Analysts enable change within JDI by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders while also considering the potential implications of technology in the current business environment.

This position requires full-time on-site presence.

Qualifications

• Education Required: A university degree, college diploma or a related discipline
• At least 3 years work experience in a business environment
• Preferably experience in an IT work environment, or experience in Construction, Manufacturing or Heavy Equipment & Civil Engineering industries
• Expert experience in Microsoft Technologies, particularly in O365, the Power Platform, SharePoint, Teams, and Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
• Strong understanding of mobile applications and devices
• Experience with securely integrating external and internal systems
• Customer focused: motivated by inspiring others to do things differently
• Technically inclined, process oriented and driven by a natural curiosity
• Happy in an environment where you can work independently as well as collaboratively
• A continuous learner: acquiring new skills and software applications is second nature
• At home in a fast-paced work environment where solutions are not always clearly defined
• A practiced communicator with strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
• Organized, analytical and business savvy

Bonus

• Lean Six Sigma Methodologies
• Agile Product Owner
• Business Process Modeling
• Experience using IT support & management tools such as ServiceNow, Visio, Intune, Active Directory, Microsoft SCCM, etc.
• Experience with learning management tools such as TT Perform and Convergence
• Experience with data modelling and presentation tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, and PowerBI
• Experience with business tools such as JD Edwards, DSI, Jira, AutoCAD, MS CRM, MS Project, Bid2Win, Kronos, GeoTab

Responsibilities

• As part of the JD Irving IT Team, you will be supporting the Construction & Equipment Division
• Understand business needs and how IT supports and enables business success
• Prioritizing and delivering IT service and solutions to meet business needs
• Providing input to the IT roadmap to support business strategy
• Modernizing processes by leveraging various technologies
• Understanding key business data and quality
• Performing requirements elicitation & documentation
• Building use cases (definition and development) and developing test cases
• Documenting business processes
• Understanding capability of analytics tools and enabling business to act from analytical insight
• Managing integrity, confidentiality, and security of all datasets
• Expediting data analysis and reporting
• Understanding the risk tolerance/profile of the business
• Collaborating with design and architecture
• Translating business process model to technical realization
• Participating in and in some cases leading IT projects