Operations Analyst, Power Generation - Memphis

The role

You will analyze power plant data to support the site director with insights on plant performance, fuel use, demand, maintenance planning, and environmental compliance. You will build tools, dashboards, and reports and work across operations, maintenance, engineering, and environmental teams.

What you will do

• Create and integrate AI tools to support analytics and execution planning, including AI agents that flag the onset of an issue or outage
• Develop visual standards for work boards, JIRA queuing, Power BI dashboards, and plant operations workflow
• Define and develop plant-level metrics and dashboards, including gas vs MW, hall demand vs generation, maintenance forecast, and air permit hours
• Support the site director with data insights for plant operations, outage planning, and continuous improvement
• Conduct in-depth analyses through SQL queries and other data methods to identify trends for decision making
• Create reports, tools, and standardized metrics for operational measurements and improvements
• Integrate with operations, maintenance, engineering, and environmental teams to identify systematic gaps
• Develop automation that mitigates operational risk or creates efficiencies within the power plant
• Conduct operations audits that streamline plant operations, maintenance, and reliability work
• Analyze site services and plant support contracts such as utilities and waste to ensure smart spending

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, supply chain, management information systems, computer science, or economics
• 2+ years of experience in an operations, data analytics, consulting, production coordination, scheduling, or planning role

Nice to have

• 4+ years of professional experience
• Process focused experience including project management, capacity modeling, process mapping, and layouts
• Experience with operations, maintenance, and capacity planning (including CMMS, MRP, or ERP systems)
• Experience using Excel, VBA, SQL, or Python/R for analysis or modeling dynamic systems
• Experience creating and managing dashboards with Power BI
• Familiarity with power plant or industrial operations metrics such as heat rate, generation vs demand, maintenance forecasting, and air-permit tracking
• Experience with lean, six sigma, and related operations principles
• Ability to work well across teams and skill sets to find the simplest and best solution
• Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams

About the company

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