IT / Business Analytics Placements

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Deadline: 31st January 2020
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Data Science, Information Technology
Location: East Midlands, North East, Yorkshire and Humberside
City: Darlington, Daventry, Huddersfield

IT / Business Analytics Placements

Key Responsibilities

Working as part of our Business/ IT team you will be responsible for several key tasks. Depending on the location or business unit, these may include:

  • Building an understanding of IT systems and their interaction with business processes.
  • Leading small projects or initiatives from inception to completion, utilising structured project or business analysis methodologies.
  • Supporting and improving IT and related business processes, utilising tools i.e. process flow mapping, value stream mapping, data collection, analysis and general problem solving.
  • Analysis of business, user and stakeholder needs; eliciting and documenting requirements.
  • Helping identify & design business and IT solutions.
  • Involvement in cross functional, cross business unit and global initiatives.
  • Supporting projects with project management methodology and tasks.
  • Supporting change controls within IT systems and projects.
  • Supporting business / IT compliance and internal controls.
  • Providing team coordination, administration and operational support.
  • Providing a variety of onsite general technical support (i.e. hardware, network) working alongside various teams.
  • Participating in community responsibility and charity initiatives.
  • Maintaining existing business / IT systems.
  • Gaining exposure to financial planning and cost management.
  • Supporting business reporting needs (including creating dashboards, Business Intelligence Reporting i.e. OBIEE / MSBI and analytical reporting tools.)
  • Supporting IT system testing, working closely with business users and subject matter / process experts.

Training Provided

  • Training in Corporate IT tools (such as Skype for Business, Microsoft SharePoint, Power BI).
  • Structured placement training opportunities (covering various soft skills such as presentation, communication, time management & interpersonal skills.)
  • Relevant training to the job role offered (may include training with systems, business systems analysis tools, problem solving tools, business process improvement tools, project management training, ITIL, system development lifecycle tools and methodologies)- role dependent.
  • Training in technical skills (may include Oracle database design and development, use of PL/SQL & Toad).
  • Functional on the job training depending on location / role (may include training on supply chain, distribution, warehousing and logistics, manufacturing, engineering and test labs.)
  • Potential to build further knowledge and skills supporting community activities such as young enterprise, interview training and public speaking skills training.

This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated individuals who are innovative, driven to succeed and with a passion to challenge the status quo.

About Cummins

Cummins are global leaders in the clean engine, power generation, turbocharging and emissions solutions markets.
With manufacturing plants in 14 countries, 62,000 employees, turnover of $22 billion in 2018, you would be joining an organisation that offers flexible career paths and opportunities on a global basis.

Key markets are off-highway vehicles, industrial equipment and power generation. In addition, Cummins provides turbochargers for the automotive sector, along with filtration and acoustic systems, natural-gas engines, engine components and electronic systems. Cummins engine installations vary from the world’s highest altitude rail vehicles in the mountains of Tibet to some of the biggest mine trucks around the world.

Today, innovation is just as critical to our success as it was in the early days of our Company. With our mature market emissions near zero, our focus now is on improving product efficiency and understanding our customers’ needs better than anyone else through the development of strong partnerships.

What makes Cummins different is the way in which we take the time to understand our customers and then exceed their expectations by always being the first to market with the best products. The other advantage Cummins has over the competition is that we produce and supply superior integrated power systems, making us a one-stop shop for all of our customers’ needs.

Understanding our customers’ needs before they do and applying the creative ingenuity to make us better, faster, first, is the key to our future success in an increasingly competitive environment.

With "Innovation You Can Depend On" Cummins will see the future first and beat our competition to it.

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