Business Analyst
ACS Professional Staffing

• Location: Vancouver, Washington
• Type: Contract
• Job #7991

Overview:

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Business Analyst 2 - Safety position will provide business and risk analysis support and coordinate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), its stakeholders, and various department representatives. This position will analyze the Safety Organization's business model framework for alignment with agency goals and safety strategic initiatives through analysis of collected data, policy and program reviews, and assessment of incidents and safety concerns. This position will apply technical business and risk analysis expertise to identify early indicators of presented hazards and support the agency in taking proactive measures in risk mitigation to prevent harm to its employees and business partners. This position will also support benchmarking studies that identify and recommend implementation of consensus best practices and methodologies into work planning to ensure the organization accomplishes its business strategic goals. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.

Pay range: $34.88 - $49.84

Benefits:

• Paid holidays: 11
• PTO: Starting at 10 days
• Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
• EAP: Employee Assistance Program
• Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
• Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with NFB and stakeholders to obtain in-depth understanding of the organization's strategy implementation plan, safety strategic initiatives, agency goals, and objectives to support meeting targeted outcomes.
• Perform analysis of data collected from safety databases pertaining to training, incident assessments, safety concerns, agency safety surveys, employee interviews, and available information regarding work environments and conditions as part of identifying opportunities to improve the organization's safety culture and safe work environment.
• Perform analysis of safety policies, programs, and work standards through the agency decision framework to support executive decision-making processes to reduce agency risks to an acceptable business level.
• Evaluate and advise on the methods and procedures for the development of safety initiatives for business processes.
• Identify areas of opportunity to improve effectiveness of data collection, tracking, and trending.
• Identify areas of opportunity to improve effectiveness of hazard mitigation and risk management in day-to-day operations.
• Analyze data collected from routine and task-based hazard identification processes to verify that occupational hazards are identified, assessed, controlled, and monitored per agency adopted consensus standards.
• Support the development of a comprehensive safety risk management program and associated procedures to ensure agency prioritization of corrective actions and safety strategic initiatives are effective at reducing overall occupational health risks to employees and business partners.
• Establish a process for utilization of the Safety Risk Assessment Matrix to categorize hazards found during facility inspections, job observations, incident assessments, employee interviews, audits, and other reporting avenues which is quantitative, standardized, and measured by specific actionable performance indicators.
• Analyze corrective action assignment, completion, and effectiveness to validate agency prioritization of resources.
• Inform executive sponsorships and safety committees of analytical findings to guide agency decision-making and ensure risk tolerance and risk acceptance is authorized and managed at the appropriate level.
• Facilitate interim and permanent corrective actions through the safety hierarchy of controls using data-informed, strategic business models.
• Conduct data and risk analysis benchmarking studies that highlight other effective utility industry leading indicators.
• Drive the completion of safety strategic initiatives by providing relevant data to SME, safety committees, stakeholders, and business partners.
• Prepare periodic and ad-hoc reports, graphics, statistics, presentations, and queries for a variety of business experts in both individual and group settings using available software program systems such as Microsoft products (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.), Adobe, and other available software programs.
• Assist the Incident Assessment Team (IAT) in completing incident and hazard assessments. Serve as a team member performing risk analysis to help determine root cause, contributing factors, and indirect causes. Collect relevant data from assessments to record and track agency recurring hazards and/or hazard mitigation deficiencies to determine potential business risk reduction solutions.
• In-person presence and travel are required for meetings within the the organization's operational areas / field sites. This work may last up to a week on a quarterly basis and as needed for scheduled committee and group meetings.
• Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet specific data analysis requirements.
• Conduct and/or support the compilation and analysis of technical source data necessary for safety program development.
• Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements. Share and disperse documents only to appropriate personnel (those with a Lawful Government Purpose [LGP] to know). Mark and maintain all official records in accordance with the Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) standards and procedures. Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.

Requirements:

• An associate or bachelor's degree in data science, data analytics, business analytics, data modeling, business mathematics, statistics, risk management, risk analysis, safety & occupational health, or a closely related technical discipline is preferred.
• 5 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree.
• 7 years of experience is required with an applicable associate degree.
• 9 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.
• Formal training (college level communications, English, technical writing) or related coursework can qualify as relevant years of experience. Resume must include a detailed list of the specific classes being claimed as "qualifying".
• Experience should include a combination of work-related experience on-the-job training and/or vocational training and should be consistent with the specific requirements as listed in the tasks above and progressively more technical in nature.
• Proficiency in the use of a business and/or management system and associated database software programs utilized to establish and maintain data analysis and effective technical analytical recordkeeping skills is required.
• Proficiency in the use of Adobe Acrobat Pro and the full Microsoft Office applications for the purposes of creating Access database, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Visio diagrams, charts, workflows, diagrams, and various miscellaneous materials into a professional published form is required.
• Demonstrated experience with safety risk management and understanding of safety and occupational health environment sufficient to explain technical issues to a disparate range of technical and non-technical clients.
• Advanced ability to organize and present information in various forms such as textual, graphical, and statistical.
• Knowledge of various safety and occupational health consensus standards and guidelines.
• Knowledge of risk management and analysis best practices.
• A proven track record of risk management.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (college level communications, English, technical writing).
• Valid U.S. Driver's License is required.

Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.

Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.

ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant's race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.

If you have any questions about the job posting, please contact recruiting@acsprostaffing.com

If you have any questions about our Reasonable Accommodation Policy, please feel free to email hr@acsprostaffing.com

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