Senior Analyst, Quality Data & Systems
Southwire Company LLC Carrollton, Georgia, United States
51-200 employees
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About the role
The Senior Quality Data & Systems Analyst provides analytical leadership by defining quality measures, developing decision-support products, and translating data into actionable insights. The role acts as a liaison between the Quality department and corporate teams such as Data Governance, AI, BI, and IT to ensure data integrity and process optimization.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Engineering, Data Science, or Statistics. A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing quality, quality analytics, or business intelligence is required.
Benefits
Full description
A leader in technology and innovation, Southwire Company, LLC is one of North America’s largest wire and cable producers. Southwire and its subsidiaries manufacture building wire and cable, utility products, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products. In addition, Southwire supplies assembled products, contractor equipment, electrical components, hand tools and jobsite power and lighting solutions. The company also offers digital solutions including contractor planning and utility grid resiliency as well as field services including cable testing, rejuvenation and replacement to support our customers as a value-add partner.
The purpose of Southwire’s College Programs is to provide valuable experience to students pursuing a bachelor’s degree or higher. Our goal is to give students meaningful work that builds on what they are learning in the classroom. Our programs are project based. Students will receive a project at the beginning of the summer and present it in our project expo at the end of the summer. Our more than seven decades of progressive growth can be attributed to our determination to develop innovative systems and solutions, exercising environmental stewardship and enhancing the well-being of the communities in which we work and live. How will you power what’s possible?
Job Summary
The Senior Quality Data & Systems Analyst provides enterprise analytical leadership by defining trusted quality measures, developing decision-support products, validating data, identifying trends and risks, and translating quality information into actionable insights. The role owns assigned KPI definitions, analytical methods, dashboards, scorecards, and interpretation of results, and serves as Quality's liaison to Corporate Data Governance, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence (BI), Data Engineering, IT, and Digital Quality & Infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and sustain dashboards, scorecards, models, and recurring reports for COPQ, customer, supplier, operational, audit, CAPA, and QMS performance. Identify trends, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities and translate findings into concise recommendations for leaders. Provide analysis for management review, strategic priorities, risk assessments, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement. Define and maintain KPI logic, business rules, source mappings, ownership, validation criteria, and controlled documentation. Align metric definitions and reporting standards with process owners, Finance, Quality, Corporate Data Governance, BI, and data owners. Represent Quality in applicable enterprise data-governance, BI, AI, and analytics councils or working teams. Partner with Corporate Data Governance on ownership, stewardship, critical data elements, business terminology, data-quality requirements, and escalation paths. Partner with Corporate BI on governed data products, semantic models, dashboard standards, visualization practices, priorities, and release validation. Partner with Corporate AI to identify and prioritize use cases, define business and data requirements, validate outputs and limitations, and support responsible adoption. Corporate AI retains model governance and technical ownership. Develop metric dictionaries, standards, user guides, and training for dashboards, AI-enabled insights, and quality-data interpretation.
Required Education & Experience
Bachelor's Degree
Specialized Degree: Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Quality, or a related field.
5-7 Years Experience
Field(s) of Expertise: Manufacturing quality, quality analytics, business intelligence, ERP/QMS data, or related experience.
Preferred Education & Experience
Master's Degree
8-11 Years Experience
Spans of Control
Does this role manage Southwire team members: No
Travel
Domestic - less than 20% of time
Physical Requirements
Moving - 5% of time
Standing - 5% of time
Sitting - 90% of time
Working Conditions
Office
Equipment
Computer/Keyboard
Competencies
Action Oriented
Plans and Aligns
Customer Focus
Balances Stakeholders
Collaborates
Nimble Learning
Skills
Analytical Skills
Data Governance
Data Reporting
Investigation
JIRA
MySQL
Process Improvement
Quality Control
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software)
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
Benefits We Offer:
- 401k with Matching & Pension Plan (Eligible for Pension after 1,000 Hours Worked)
- Flexible Work Schedules
Southwire is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
