<p>First Quality was founded in 1989 and has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.</p> <p>Job Title: Solution Engineer - Analytics Co-Op</p> <p>Position Description:</p> <p>The Enterprise Data Solution Delivery team provides strategic direction, technical/functional expertise, and product management for First Quality's Reporting and Analytics systems. The Solution Engineer - Analytics, as a key member of the Enterprise Data Solution Delivery team, contributes to the definition, design, delivery and support of First Quality's Analytics systems. This role will interact with all areas of First Quality to define business requirements, scope solutions, develop specifications, and support delivery of analytics solutions. This position is the go-to contact for their assigned Analytics system specialization and, as such, serves as the ultimate support escalation point for their assigned system(s). The person in this position owns their assigned system(s) and interacts with all divisions within First Quality. The Solution Engineer - Analytics Co-Op position is accountable for the training, education, and execution of Analytics systems with the goal to fully utilize their capabilities.</p> <p>Primary Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Participate in the development and design of analytics platforms (i.e. Data Warehouse, ETL, and Reporting).</p> </li><li> <p>Build high performance SQL queries to retrieve, transform and analyze data using standard ETL processes.</p> </li><li> <p>Build, test and implement reports and dashboards using different analytics tools.</p> </li><li> <p>Partner with the business groups to evaluate and perform application development and/or business process change requests under minimal direction.</p> </li><li> <p>Monitor Data Warehouse & Analytics Application processes to ensure customer expectations are met.</p> </li><li> <p>Ensure optimal application performance and maintainability of assigned systems, thus enabling scalability and continuous updates from software vendors.</p> </li><li> <p>Coordinate with functional leads to understand business requirements.</p> </li></ul> <p>Preferred Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.</p> </li><li> <p>Fundamental understanding of database concepts</p> </li><li> <p>1 year Information Technology experience with focus on SQL, preferred</p> </li><li> <p>1 year experience in any visualization tool (QlikView, Tableau, and Power BI etc.), preferred</p> </li><li> <p>Good understanding of data warehousing concepts like ETL best practices, dimensional modeling, and sematic/reporting layer design.</p> </li><li> <p>Strong problem solving and decision-making skills.</p> </li><li> <p>Ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terms, and effectively interact with decision makers.</p> </li></ul> <p>Preferred Majors:</p> <p>Bus. - Accounting, Bus. - Business Analytics, Bus. - General Business, Bus. - Economics, Bus. - Business & Engineering, Bus. - Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Bus. - Finance, Bus. - International Business, Bus. - Legal Studies, Bus. - Operations and Supply Chain Management, Bus. - Management Information Systems, Bus. - Marketing, Bus. - Organizational Management, Bus. - Real Estate Management & Development, Bus. - Technology Innovation Management, Comp. - Computer Science, Comp. - Computing & Security Technology, Comp. - Data Science, Comp. - Software Engineering, Comp. - Informatics, Comp. - Information Technology, Comp. - Information Systems</p> <p>Level(s) of Experience Sought:</p> <p>Intermediate - Some related work or volunteer experience/second Co-op</p> <p>Advanced - Previous related work experience/final Co-op</p> <p>First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.</p> <p>First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.</p>