Senior Business Analyst — MES/QMS & ERP LN Integrations

Solar Turbines Incorporated; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Paid time off (Vacation, Holidays)

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Adoption benefits

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead functional analysis for PLEX MES/QMS deployment and ERP LN integration.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and IT to translate requirements into scalable solutions and support site deployments and knowledge transfer. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in business/functional analysis and experience across ERP/MES/QMS, with strong manufacturing process knowledge and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Business Analyst or Functional Analyst experience.
• 5+ years supporting ERP, MES, QMS, or manufacturing applications.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes including production orders, BOMs, routings, work centers, material movement, inventory/WIP, and quality.
• Experience leading requirements gathering, functional design, SIT/UAT, and enterprise system deployments.
• Experience working across business, IT, architecture, integration, and vendor teams.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering, process-design workshops, and functional solution development.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify process, system, data, and integration gaps.
• Promote standardized, scalable solutions while minimizing unnecessary customization.
• Serve as a functional SME for PLEX MES/QMS processes and ERP LN integration.
• Support solution design across production, BOMs, routings, inventory/WIP, master data, quality, traceability, and related manufacturing processes.
• Define functional requirements and data mappings between PLEX, ERP LN, and connected applications.
• Partner with technical and integration teams to troubleshoot transactional and integration issues.
• Lead functional testing, including SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end business-process testing.
• Coordinate defect triage, resolution, and retesting.
• Support manufacturing master-data conversion, validation, and reconciliation.
• Support site readiness, cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities.
• Troubleshoot functional issues and coordinate resolution across business and technical teams.
• Capture lessons learned and establish reusable processes and standards for future deployments.
• Maintain key functional, process, testing, configuration, and support documentation.
• Lead knowledge transfer from implementation partners to internal teams.

Skills

Business analysis

Functional analysis

Requirements gathering

SIT/UAT leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead functional analysis for PLEX MES/QMS deployment and ERP LN integration.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and IT to translate requirements into scalable solutions and support site deployments and knowledge transfer. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in business/functional analysis and experience across ERP/MES/QMS, with strong manufacturing process knowledge and stakeholder management.