Business Operations Specialist

1 year contract for a Business Operations Specialist role with a leading client in Mossville, IL area. APPLY NOW!

Title: Business Operations Specialist

Location: Mossville, IL

Workplace type: 100% onsite (M-F, 40 hour work week)

Type: Contract

Pay: $27-29.75/hour on w2

IV type: 2 rounds-first phone/virtual and second round onsite panel IV

Length: 12 months- possibility to extend (up to client)

Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired

+optional benefits

Must haves:

• Education & Experience Required: Preferred bachelor’s degree in business management, economics, finance, or accounting
• 3- 5 years of experience required
• Would considered Masters with 3-5 years of experience
• (Required)Proficient in O365 (Microsoft Software Experience (Teams/Word/PowerPoint)
• Ability to strategically and tactically organize and structure project execution activities

Soft Skills

• (Required)Time management
• Transparent, clear communication
• Detail Oriented

• Summary:

The main function of a business operations specialist is to maintain vendor relationships, acting as a business analyst for non-IT projects or filling organizational roles above an administrative level, but below a management level. Other responsibilities may include maintaining all project management processes, including project goals, deadlines, metrics and budget. The business operations specialist usually reports to a project manager or director.

Job Responsibilities:

• • Establish and maintain communication services across business units or from the project team to the organization.
• • Maintain the storage and retrieval of all project communications data and business metrics.
• • Review contracts, cost proposals and contract supplements.
• • Set up project and work breakdown structures.
• • Establish and document business processes.
• • Track project budgets and expenditures, monitor transaction controls and costs against budgets.
• • Predict potential budget overruns and offer solutions.

Skills:

• • Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• • Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• • Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, and production methods.
• • Ability to apply accounting and mathematical principles to work as needed.
• • Ability to analyze business trends and project future revenues and expenses.
• • Previous experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Word and Excel; Enterprise Application experience a plus.

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

• Additionally, coordinates scheduling engineering project schedule.
• Facilitates communication with engineering team and project managers regarding project schedule milestones, challenges, adjustments and deficiencies.

Typical task breakdown:

• -Prepare Weekly Safety Meeting slides
• -Save as - next week from last week's presentation
• -Select Safety Improvement to be used for the week: Safety Improvement of the Week - 2023.xlsx and update the date used
• -Add the slide to the presentation for next week
• -update all of the injury free days (+7); if in doubt - check this spreadsheet:
• AMT Injury Free Workday Tracking.xlsx

• Interaction with team: high