Senior Manufacturing Systems Analyst - PLM/ERP & MES Expert

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

Job summary

AeroVironment in Albuquerque, NM seeks a Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst who bridges operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT to gather and prioritize requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, MES. The analyst supports system implementations, process improvements, integrations, data governance, testing, training, and ongoing operational support.

The position ensures manufacturing applications effectively support product development, production planning, material

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, or a related field.
• 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 and bills of material, change management, production planning, and scheduling.
• Coordinate 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.
• Maintain process documentation, requirements repositories, data definitions, and system documentation.
• Support master-data governance and data-quality initiatives.
• Monitor system performance and user adoption.
• Identify opportunities to improve standardization, automation, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Business analysis

Manufacturing systems

ERP

MES

PLM

MRP

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder communication

Process mapping

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, or related field

Tools

SQL

Data analysis

Reporting tools

APIs

System integration concepts

Job description

AeroVironment in Albuquerque, NM seeks a Senior Manufacturing Systems Business Analyst who bridges operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and IT to gather and prioritize requirements for PLM, ERP, MRP, MES. The analyst supports system implementations, process improvements, integrations, data governance, testing, training, and ongoing operational support.

The position ensures manufacturing applications effectively support product development, production planning, material