Senior AMI Operations Analyst - Forecasting & Insights

Aquent; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental plans

Retirement plans with company match

Free online training via Aquent Gym

Job summary

Aquent partners with a leading utility client to drive a multi-year advanced metering initiative. The role focuses on optimizing material readiness, inventory planning, and data-driven decision making across operations.

You will transform complex data into actionable insights, create forecasting models, and develop dashboards that monitor deployment readiness and performance, ensuring reliability and efficiency of critical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, operational analytics, forecasting, or reporting.

Responsibilities

• Analyze work order and installation data to identify materials consumed during meter deployment activities.
• Develop quarterly and annual material demand forecasts to support inventory planning and procurement.
• Create and maintain forecasting models, dashboards, and performance metrics that measure material readiness and deployment risk.
• Establish reporting frameworks that classify inventory health and deployment readiness as Good to Go or At Risk.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, Operations, and Program Management teams to align forecasted demand with deployment schedules.
• Collect, organize, and analyze operational data related to meter installations, repairs, maintenance, and field activities.
• Develop reporting and analytics that measure productivity, quality, deployment performance, and operational efficiency.
• Identify trends, bottlenecks, process gaps, and opportunities for workflow standardization and performance improvement.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations for leadership and stakeholders.
• Support data governance, reporting standards, and analytics best practices across the initiative.
• Analyze smart meter telemetry and operational data to identify anomalies and risks.

Skills

SAP

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Google BigQuery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data Analytics, Engineering, Information Systems, Supply Chain

Job description

Aquent partners with a leading utility client to drive a multi-year advanced metering initiative. The role focuses on optimizing material readiness, inventory planning, and data-driven decision making across operations.

You will transform complex data into actionable insights, create forecasting models, and develop dashboards that monitor deployment readiness and performance, ensuring reliability and efficiency of critical infrastructure.