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Functional Analyst roles in systems design, data integration, and business process modeling qualify for STEM OPT when your degree aligns with an approved CIP code. The 24-month STEM OPT extension gives you up to 36 months total work authorization, provided your employer is enrolled in E-Verify and you file a completed I-983 training plan.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.
Consider applying here, if you want to:
- Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.
- Develop lasting relationships with great people.
- Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
IT Systems Functional I
The IT Systems Functional I will work within the IT Team to support the overall system/ network needs of Niagara’s corporate office and plants.
Essential Functions
- Analyze and develop solutions addressing customer needs.
- Trouble shooting daily operational system issues to define root cause and define temporary/permanent solutions.
- Ability to take direction, learn processes/systems quickly and apply to deliver results based on timeline.
- Work with business to understand and document requirements, determine design and approach, configure, and test various applications to deliver and support business needs.
- On-going analysis of the supply chain process to identify opportunities for process and system improvements, efficiency gains, and cost reduction through the use of various supply chain applications and data mining tools.
- Organize, schedule and run meetings to identify supply chain opportunities and system needs:
- Interacting with multiple departments including but not limited to IT, Accounting, Finance, Transportation, Customer Service, Planning, Distribution, and Production.
- Documenting meeting minutes, action items, issues, and risks.
- Document requirements, process flows, new functionality, and creation of SOP/training materials.
- Training super and end users on new functionality and process changes.
- Ability to plan, track, escalate and deliver upon tasks and timelines assigned.
- Available for 24/7 support (scheduled and off hours).
- Review system design approaches to ensure they fully meet the business requirements.
- Write use cases, business rules, and other artifacts such as swim lane diagrams and activity flow diagrams to effectively articulate and represent business processes, desired outcomes, and requirements.
- Produce key documents, both in written and presentation format.
- Excellent problem solver with the ability to keep many driving factors and requirements in focus.
- Monitor process and technology and provide insights into overall status.
- Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualifications:
- 0 Years – Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
- 0 Years – Experience in Position
- 0 Years – Experience managing people/projects
experience may include a combination of work experience and education
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 Years– Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
- 2 Years – Experience working in Position
- 2 Years – Experience managing people/projects
experience may include a combination of work experience and education
Competencies
This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:
- Lead Like an Owner
- Makes safety the number one priority
- Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
- Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
- Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
- Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
- Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
- InnovACT
- Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
- Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
- Increases performance through greater efficiency
- Find a Way
- Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
- Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
- Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
- Empowered to be Great
- Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
- Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
- Communicates effectively to manage expectations
Additionally, IT Support Analyst is expected to demonstrate:
- Ability to work in fast paced, dynamic environment collaboratively with a cross-functional team and manage minor project implementations.
- Experience in Business Analysis
- Overall high degree of professionalism
- Strong team-oriented interpersonal skills including facilitation and the ability to effectively interface and work with a wide variety of people. Must work independently.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills
- Ability to translate complex business needs into use case models
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to provide detail documentation of a technology incident
- Proficient computer skills (i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook)
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent analysis, planning and organizational proficiency and good business judgment
- Ability to delivery effective and professional presentation to peers, management and other professionals within our field
- Strong communication and documentation skills, ability to communicate and interact at executive and junior levels.
Education
Minimum Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Transportation, Manufacturing, Computer Science or Engineering, related field, or equivalent work experience
Preferred (Optimal Candidate):
- Master’s Degree in Supply Chain, Transportation, Manufacturing, Computer Science or Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
Certification/License:
- Required: NA
- Preferred: NA
Foreign Language
- Required: NA
- Preferred: NA
Typical Compensation Range
Pay Rate Type: Salary
$82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family:
Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
- Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
- Paid parental and caregiver leaves
- Medical, including virtual care options
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
- Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
- Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
- Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
- Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities
- And more!
Los Angeles County applicants only Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act, and any other applicable local and state laws.
Any employment agency, person or entity that submits a résumé into this career site or to a hiring manager does so with the understanding that the applicant's résumé will become the property of Niagara Bottling, LLC. Niagara Bottling, LLC will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
Employment agencies that have fee agreements with Niagara Bottling, LLC and have been engaged on a search shall submit résumé to the designated Niagara Bottling, LLC recruiter or, upon authorization, submit résumé into this career site to be eligible for placement fees.
Niagara Plant Name
CORP-MAIN
At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.
Consider applying here, if you want to:
- Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.
- Develop lasting relationships with great people.
- Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
IT Systems Functional I
The IT Systems Functional I will work within the IT Team to support the overall system/ network needs of Niagara’s corporate office and plants.
Essential Functions
- Analyze and develop solutions addressing customer needs.
- Trouble shooting daily operational system issues to define root cause and define temporary/permanent solutions.
- Ability to take direction, learn processes/systems quickly and apply to deliver results based on timeline.
- Work with business to understand and document requirements, determine design and approach, configure, and test various applications to deliver and support business needs.
- On-going analysis of the supply chain process to identify opportunities for process and system improvements, efficiency gains, and cost reduction through the use of various supply chain applications and data mining tools.
- Organize, schedule and run meetings to identify supply chain opportunities and system needs:
- Interacting with multiple departments including but not limited to IT, Accounting, Finance, Transportation, Customer Service, Planning, Distribution, and Production.
- Documenting meeting minutes, action items, issues, and risks.
- Document requirements, process flows, new functionality, and creation of SOP/training materials.
- Training super and end users on new functionality and process changes.
- Ability to plan, track, escalate and deliver upon tasks and timelines assigned.
- Available for 24/7 support (scheduled and off hours).
- Review system design approaches to ensure they fully meet the business requirements.
- Write use cases, business rules, and other artifacts such as swim lane diagrams and activity flow diagrams to effectively articulate and represent business processes, desired outcomes, and requirements.
- Produce key documents, both in written and presentation format.
- Excellent problem solver with the ability to keep many driving factors and requirements in focus.
- Monitor process and technology and provide insights into overall status.
- Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualifications:
- 0 Years – Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
- 0 Years – Experience in Position
- 0 Years – Experience managing people/projects
experience may include a combination of work experience and education
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 Years– Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
- 2 Years – Experience working in Position
- 2 Years – Experience managing people/projects
experience may include a combination of work experience and education
Competencies
This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:
- Lead Like an Owner
- Makes safety the number one priority
- Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
- Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
- Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
- Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
- Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
- InnovACT
- Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
- Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
- Increases performance through greater efficiency
- Find a Way
- Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
- Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
- Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
- Empowered to be Great
- Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
- Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
- Communicates effectively to manage expectations
Additionally, IT Support Analyst is expected to demonstrate:
- Ability to work in fast paced, dynamic environment collaboratively with a cross-functional team and manage minor project implementations.
- Experience in Business Analysis
- Overall high degree of professionalism
- Strong team-oriented interpersonal skills including facilitation and the ability to effectively interface and work with a wide variety of people. Must work independently.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills
- Ability to translate complex business needs into use case models
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to provide detail documentation of a technology incident
- Proficient computer skills (i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook)
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent analysis, planning and organizational proficiency and good business judgment
- Ability to delivery effective and professional presentation to peers, management and other professionals within our field
- Strong communication and documentation skills, ability to communicate and interact at executive and junior levels.
Education
Minimum Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Transportation, Manufacturing, Computer Science or Engineering, related field, or equivalent work experience
Preferred (Optimal Candidate):
- Master’s Degree in Supply Chain, Transportation, Manufacturing, Computer Science or Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
Certification/License:
- Required: NA
- Preferred: NA
Foreign Language
- Required: NA
- Preferred: NA
Typical Compensation Range
Pay Rate Type: Salary
$82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family:
Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
- Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
- Paid parental and caregiver leaves
- Medical, including virtual care options
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
- Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
- Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
- Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
- Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities
- And more!
Los Angeles County applicants only Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act, and any other applicable local and state laws.
Any employment agency, person or entity that submits a résumé into this career site or to a hiring manager does so with the understanding that the applicant's résumé will become the property of Niagara Bottling, LLC. Niagara Bottling, LLC will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
Employment agencies that have fee agreements with Niagara Bottling, LLC and have been engaged on a search shall submit résumé to the designated Niagara Bottling, LLC recruiter or, upon authorization, submit résumé into this career site to be eligible for placement fees.
Niagara Plant Name
CORP-MAIN
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Functional Analyst
Verify your CIP code matches functional analysis
Pull your degree's CIP code from your DSO and confirm it appears on the STEM Designated Degree Program List published by USCIS. Computer science, information systems, and systems engineering codes most reliably support Functional Analyst roles.
Filter job postings by E-Verify enrollment status
Before applying, confirm the employer is actively enrolled in E-Verify, not just registered. Ask your recruiter or HR contact directly during the screening call, since enrollment can lapse even at large firms.
Benchmark your offer against OFLC Wage Search data
Look up the prevailing wage for your specific SOC code and work location using the OFLC Wage Search tool. Functional Analyst roles span multiple wage levels depending on complexity, so knowing Level I versus Level II thresholds strengthens your offer negotiation.
Build your I-983 training plan before your start date
Draft the learning objectives section of your I-983 around the specific systems, methodologies, and analytical frameworks in your offer letter. Functional Analyst work involving requirements gathering, UAT, and ERP configuration maps cleanly to STEM practical training goals.
Target employers with active systems integration contracts
Federal contractors and consulting firms with active systems integration or IT modernization contracts hire Functional Analysts in recurring cycles. Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers whose hiring history shows repeated placements in business analysis and functional design roles.
Time your STEM OPT extension filing around your project cycle
File your STEM OPT extension with USCIS at least 90 days before your initial OPT expires. Functional Analyst project timelines often run three to six months, so starting the extension process during contract onboarding avoids gaps that could interrupt a delivery cycle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Functional Analyst role qualify for STEM OPT?
Yes, if your degree carries an approved STEM CIP code and the role applies that technical knowledge directly. Functional Analyst positions involving systems analysis, data modeling, or software requirements typically qualify. Roles focused purely on business process without a technical systems component are less straightforward, so confirm alignment with your DSO before filing.
What STEM degrees support a Functional Analyst STEM OPT extension?
Degrees in computer science, information systems, management information systems, systems engineering, and applied mathematics most commonly support Functional Analyst extensions. The degree must appear on the STEM Designated Degree Program List published by USCIS. Check with your DSO to confirm your exact CIP code is on the current list before assuming eligibility.
How do I confirm my employer is enrolled in E-Verify before I start?
Ask your HR contact or recruiter directly before accepting an offer. E-Verify enrollment is a hard requirement for STEM OPT employers, and enrollment can lapse or apply only to certain locations within a large company. Your employer must also sign your I-983 training plan, so confirming E-Verify status early prevents delays after your start date.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for a Functional Analyst position?
The I-983 must describe how the work applies your STEM degree through specific learning goals tied to the actual role. For Functional Analyst positions, this typically covers requirements elicitation methods, system configuration tasks, data flow analysis, and testing frameworks. Generic descriptions rarely satisfy USCIS review, so the training plan should match your specific project responsibilities.
Where can I find Functional Analyst jobs at E-Verify employers open to STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters Functional Analyst openings by E-Verify enrollment status so you're only seeing roles where STEM OPT is viable from day one. You can browse by location, industry, and employer type without manually screening each posting for sponsorship eligibility. Cap-gap protection also applies if you're transitioning to H-1B visa from STEM OPT, so your authorization continues through October 1 of the cap year.