Project data Analyst

Central Business Solutions; Pomona (CA); Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Trident Consulting is seeking a Project Analyst for a client engagement in Pomona, CA. This hybrid onsite/remote role focuses on scoping, planning, data management, and program support for distribution and transmission inspections.

The position involves coordinating stakeholders, managing schedules, and delivering dashboards and reports to track performance and risk. Contract through 12 months with W2 hourly compensation.

Qualifications

• Data management, including data structure and controls design.
• Time management to meet due dates and inspection milestones.
• Ability to engage multiple SMEs and secure stakeholder buy-in across teams.
• Project tracking from issue ID to resolution on inspections.
• Data visualization, dashboards and reporting for performance insights.

Responsibilities

• Support scoping and planning for inspection programs across distribution and transmission.
• Manage schedules for data collection, contractor deliverables, QA, risk, and final reports.
• Lead meetings across all phases of the inspection process.
• Develop and distribute progress reports on inspection activities and risks.
• Coordinate communications among contractors and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee the inspection program's financial planning and execution.
• Create scope packages/work orders with guidelines and checks.
• Map access issues using spatial tools and coordinate with vendors.

Skills

Data management

Time management

Stakeholder collaboration

Project tracking

Data visualization

Tools

MS Office Suite

SAS

SAP

PowerBI

SQL

Python

Snowflake

ArcGIS

Job description

Trident Consulting is seeking a " Project Analyst for one of our client in**" Pomona, CA**A global leader in business and technology services

Title : Project Analyst

Rate : $38/hr on w2

Location: Pomona, CA 91768

Hybrid: Onsite M & U

12 Months contract

Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload

Responsible for supporting scoping and planning for internal and external inspection teams supporting multiple Distribution and Transmission programs, including detailed inspections in high-fire and non-high-fire areas, annual grid patrols, streetlight patrol surveys, infrared scanning, and intrusive pole evaluations.

Key program management, planning, and scheduling responsibilities include:

• Managing schedules for data collection and processing, contractor deliverables, quality assurance, risk assessment, and final delivery of inspection results.
• Leading meetings across all phases of the inspection process, from data collection through risk review and distribution.
• Developing, maintaining, and distributing progress reports covering inspection collection, processing, delivery, quality control, and risk evaluation.
• Coordinating communications and managing impacts among contractors and internal SCE stakeholders involved in inspections, data processing, and overall program support.
• Managing the inspection program s financial planning and execution.

Key Scoping & Planning responsibilities include:

• Scope Refreshes - Create scope packages/work orders taking all the necessary steps to ensure accuracy of scope ensuring all appropriate guidelines are met.
• Collaborate with SP&E and Inspections to improve scoping strategy (e.g., work order bundling, minimizing visits, 1-2-skip a few, etc.)
• Maintain and refine lessons learned and change control logs for planning/scoping process.
• Communicate and meet with stakeholders periodically to ensure feedback obtained and reviewed against existing/future planning efforts (i.e. pain point tracker).

Key Exception Processing responsibilities include:

• Preparation of weekly performance report, UTC Tracker, Customer Access Tracker, CROPS & Government Lands Tracker, etc.
• Mapping - Create .kmz and spatial joins in Excel to determine potential access issues related to CROPS, Government Lands, etc.
• Create work orders for released access issues and send them to vendors with notes regarding appointments, gate codes, special instructions, contact info, etc.
• Tracking and oversight of constrained inspections to actively mitigate the potential for non-compliant inspections and not meeting risk mitigation commitment.

• o Drive down 'double dip' inspection charges for access issues.
• o Assist in development and monitoring of data management tools to provide more timely and accurate status reporting to management.
• o Identify follow-up actions required by various stakeholders in the inspection workflow.

• An additional resource can take advantage of the data management tools and process improvements being developed, to provide more timely and accurate status reporting to management and to identify follow-up actions required by various stakeholders in the inspection workflow.

Key Data Analysis responsibilities include:

• Performance monitoring and tracking to ensure completion of various scopes on a regular basis.
• Responsible for running regular weekly/daily reports, ad hoc reports internally and externally as well as any special analysis needed to resolve issues/process improvements, reports related to finance/cost analysis, supporting any issues that arise from contractors or internally such as data discrepancies.
• Identify data discrepancies through SAP, InspectApp, EZYViewer research using systems like SAS Enterprise, SAS VA, SAP, PowerBi, Python, WiSDM, Snowflake to:

• o Report on historical performance (by structure, region, resource, etc.)
• o Find sync issues
• o Understand trends in survey results (by inspector, resource, type of inspection)

• Validate that inspections are populating in dashboards (SAS, Power BI) and follow through to resolution.
• Communicate with InspectApp/InspectForce team both internal to Inspections and IT regarding sync issues and tracking resolution.

Required Skills/Attributes

Knowledge & Skills

• data management (data structure and controls design, data querying, and report development)
• time management (manage resolution of work to align with workflow due dates and inspection due dates)
• comfortable engaging multiple SMEs across multiple organizations, presenting issues and potential solutions, and securing support and/or buy-in from stakeholders and support partners
• project tracking from issue ID, causal analysis, solutioning, through resolution of issue
• data visualization reporting and dashboard development

Software Proficiency

• MS Office Suite, SAS, SAP, PowerBI, SQL, Python, Snowflake
• SAP experience navigating work orders, maintenance plans, mdocs, FLOC/Equipment data)
• ArcGIS experience Joining different visual layers/maps (districts, FLOCs, circuits, hexbins, constrained areas) to create tables of data to work with more effectively