Intern (Summer) - Functional Analyst
Nordson Corporation

Collaboration drives Nordson's success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed. You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.

Partners with the Business Applications leader, working across organizations to drive common approaches that solve business challenges with technology. Works to understand business requirements and business systems in order to design process improvements and business capability improvements needed to meet the business' strategic goals.

• Support Business Application Solutions leadership and guidance around technology and business process solutions
• Research new functionality, system impacts, and identify areas of opportunity in current landscape
• Develop and review the creation of training, product, and solution documentation
• Perform business process assessment activities
• Participate in resolving technology problems
• Participate in report writing and data analysis
• Work with other analysts to analyze and document interdependencies of system changes
• Design and implement standard process improvements to ensure best practices are in place across systems groups
• Identifies opportunities to make changes in processes to eliminate outages, reduce waste, improve process and execution efficiencies, and improve risk posture across the organization
• Collaborates with other IT groups and business partners to identify and sequence business capability improvements. Partners with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions.
• Support Business Application Solutions team members as required in their initiatives

Skills and Abilities

• Classwork or practical experience around software configuration and testing
• Ability to understand end-to-end business processes and existing technology landscapes
• Ability to collaborate, developing thought leadership work products such as best in class procedures and documentation
• Ability to understand the needs of non-technical customers and translate technical requirements into non-technical descriptions
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
• Willingness to take on any assignment regardless of complexity or in a technology area without previous experience
• Ability to solve difficult problems using logic and methodology to derive the optimal solution
• Ability to maintain confidentiality with privileged access
• Ability to understand complex concepts and corresponding problem relationships
• Self-starter with willingness to learn new tools in an international environment
• An enthusiastic technologist who loves to learn new things

Education and Experience Requirements

Pursuing a degree in computer science, data science, business management or information systems management at an accredited school.
Nordson Corporation provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. No person is to be discriminated against in any aspect of the employment relationship due to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment drug screening and background/criminal check, consistent with applicable laws.Third party recruiters and agencies should not contact employees of Nordson or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent to a hiring manager or submitted to Nordson employees are considered unsolicited and property of Nordson. Nordson will not pay a placement fee unless the agency or recruiter has a signed contract with Nordson's Human Resources department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.

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