Senior Manufacturing Systems Analyst: MES/ERP Integrations

Roboticsconnected; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 91,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Paid holiday shutdown

Job summary

AeroVironment is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst to bridge manufacturing operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT. You will gather and prioritize requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, MES and support implementations, integrations and data governance.

Responsibilities include workshops, traceability, testing, training, and post-launch support, ensuring manufacturing applications enable shop-floor execution and quality processes with strong data integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 3 - 7 years of experience in business analysis, manufacturing systems, ERP, MES, PLM, MRP, or related manufacturing technology.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements for complex business processes.
• Understanding of manufacturing, production planning, supply chain, engineering, or quality processes.
• Experience supporting system implementations, enhancements, integrations, or upgrades.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with process-mapping and requirements tools.
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand current and future-state manufacturing processes.
• Elicit, document, validate, and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, use cases, process flows, specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for automation.
• Facilitate workshops with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT teams.
• Ensure requirements are aligned across PLM, ERP, MRP, MES, and related systems.
• Analyze and support business processes involving product data, BOMs, engineering change management, production planning, MRP, work orders, inventory and shop-floor execution.
• Support system configuration decisions and ensure solutions meet operational requirements.
• Coordinate with system administrators, developers, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Assist with troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, issue resolution, and production support.
• Participate in system upgrades, implementations, migrations, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Define data, workflow, reporting, and integration requirements.
• Support integration analysis between PLM, ERP, MRP, MES, and other enterprise applications.
• Review proposed solutions for process alignment, usability, scalability, security, and data integrity.
• Maintain requirements traceability from business need through design, testing, and deployment.
• Develop test scenarios, test scripts, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Document defects and work with technical teams to verify corrective actions.
• Support cutover planning, deployment, release management, and post-launch stabilization.
• Develop user procedures, job aids, training materials, and release communications.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Arena

Unanet

Job description

AeroVironment is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst to bridge manufacturing operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT. You will gather and prioritize requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, MES and support implementations, integrations and data governance.

Responsibilities include workshops, traceability, testing, training, and post-launch support, ensuring manufacturing applications enable shop-floor execution and quality processes with strong data integrity.