Senior Manufacturing Systems Analyst — PLM/ERP/MES

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Paid holiday shutdown

Job summary

AeroVironment seeks a Directed Energy Sr Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst to bridge manufacturing operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT. This role gathers, analyzes, documents, and prioritizes requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, and MES to support product development and shop-floor execution.

The analyst will participate in system upgrades, data governance, testing, training, and post-launch support, ensuring manufacturing apps meet production planning, traceability,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, or a 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.

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 and bills of material, engineering change management, production planning and scheduling, material requirements planning, work orders and routings, inventory and warehouse transactions, shop-floor execution, quality inspections and nonconformance management, serial number and lot traceability, labor reporting and production performance.
• 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

Business analysis

Manufacturing systems

ERP

MES

PLM

MRP

Requirements gathering

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Arena

Unanet

SQL

APIs

Job description

AeroVironment seeks a Directed Energy Sr Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst to bridge manufacturing operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT. This role gathers, analyzes, documents, and prioritizes requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, and MES to support product development and shop-floor execution.

The analyst will participate in system upgrades, data governance, testing, training, and post-launch support, ensuring manufacturing apps meet production planning, traceability,