Senior Manufacturing Systems Analyst (PLM/ERP/MES)

AeroVironment, Inc.; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 91,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

401K plan

9/80 schedule

Holiday shutdown

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst to bridge manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT.

You will gather and translate requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, and MES, and drive improvements across systems and data governance. You will support implementations, testing, training, cutover planning, and post-launch support, ensuring manufacturing applications enable accurate planning, traceability, and reporting across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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, and production planning.
• 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 improvements.
• 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

Business analysis

Manufacturing systems

ERP systems

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder collaboration

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Fusion ERP

Arena

Unanet

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst to bridge manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT.

You will gather and translate requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, and MES, and drive improvements across systems and data governance. You will support implementations, testing, training, cutover planning, and post-launch support, ensuring manufacturing applications enable accurate planning, traceability, and reporting across