Public Forestry Operations Analyst | Data-Driven Efficiency

City of St. Louis; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

City of St. Louis is seeking a Government Services Analyst (Forestry) to apply professional public administration and operations analysis to forestry service delivery. The role focuses on vegetation management projects, budget allocations, and workflow optimization aligned with city standards.

Responsibilities include evaluating workflows, developing data-driven insights, and implementing improvements while ensuring regulatory compliance and coordination with city partners. Downtown St.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in a related field and two years of professional experience conducting statistical research, data analysis, and/or other advanced modeling techniques to streamline operations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates division workflows to identify operational efficiencies including tree maintenance, emergency storm response, and weed abatement schedules.
• Analyzes workflows and problems from multiple angles, develops hypotheses, and tests those hypotheses through data and operations review.
• Designs solutions to overcome obstacles, recommends them to leadership, and implements them when appropriate.
• Identifies and overcomes obstacles to solutions including ordinances, policy constraints, and information gaps.
• Develops and monitors KPIs to track citizen service response times and field crew productivity.
• Generates data-driven reports on division activities and resource usage using asset/work tracking systems.
• Prepares reports, presentations, and briefings on performance, system metrics, and process improvements.
• Conducts spot checks of procurement data and field activities to ensure data integrity for reporting.
• Organizes regular accountability meetings with Division leadership and partners to track procurement improvement progress.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical modeling

Public administration

Operational analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, Business Administration, Business Technology Management, Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Environmental Science, Urban Planning, or related field

Tools

ESRI ArcGIS

Asset Lifecycle Management (Cityworks/Trimble/Cityworks)

Maximo

OpenGov

Job description

City of St. Louis is seeking a Government Services Analyst (Forestry) to apply professional public administration and operations analysis to forestry service delivery. The role focuses on vegetation management projects, budget allocations, and workflow optimization aligned with city standards.

Responsibilities include evaluating workflows, developing data-driven insights, and implementing improvements while ensuring regulatory compliance and coordination with city partners. Downtown St.