Business Process Specialist

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia's market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a Specialist Business Process who will have a positive impact on the Operations team across our network of plants. As a Specialist Business Process, you will be responsible for improving the overall cost and reliability of Covia's processing equipment by partnering with plants and utilizing data from multiple sources to improve operating outcomes that meet Covia's production and safety guidelines.

The successful candidate will have the following Key Accountabilities:

• Working with sites to support Covia's Operations Management System with objectives that include:
  
  
  
  • Improve end-user experience with business applications
  • Providing the tools and approaches needed by teams to deliver
  • Identify systems to support equipment availability and loss prevention
  
  
  
  
• Responsible for multiple sites.
• Serve as a liaison between business users and IT to support and enhance ERP (IFS Cloud) configurations and modifications.
• Write and execute SQL queries to extract, analyze, and validate data from enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with the Power BI team to refine and maintain operations KPIs and dashboards.
• Support the implementation and rollout of new software tools across multiple sites.
• Troubleshoot user-submitted IT tickets related to business applications and data issues.
• Partner with Maintenance & Reliability teams to support data-driven reliability initiatives.
• Work closely with business analysts and functional teams to identify process improvement opportunities.
• Ensure data governance and consistency across systems and departments.
• Ensure EHS compliance and adherence to internal standards for safe and sustainable operations.
• Travel Requirements 50%.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and interdependent departments as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business Management, Engineering, or Science from an accredited college or university, required
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in an Operations role
• Ability to train plant employees in problem solving techniques to deliver results
• Self-motivated to resolve challenges and circumvent obstacles
• Ability to openly discuss opportunities to improve the performance of the business
• Strong communication skills are essential both written and verbal
• Strong analytical and technical skills, ability to solve complex problems, ability to innovate, and a strategic business perspective and financial acumen

Commitment to Our Culture:

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage-guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success-ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules
• Build high-performing work teams
• Focus on customers
• Demonstrate a growth mindset
• Do the right thing, always

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality, and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or military service or reserve or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.

Benefits:

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits - medical, vision, dental
• 401K with company matching
• Vacation + Paid Holidays
• Disability, Life / AD&D, and Long-Term Care Insurances
• Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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