Lafarge Canada Inc Hiring for Production Analyst at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a greener, smarter and healthier world. At Lafarge Canada Inc., safety comes first, collaboration matters and diversity is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually make our materials better.

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
The Production Analyst will lead, implement and manage a consistent and safe approach to inventory, production and sales reconciliations as well as BOM/Recipe creations for all ready mix sites in the Greater Vancouver Area (GVA). This will be accomplished through variant daily/bi-weekly and monthly monitoring and adjustments of inventory and production metrics at all plants as well as continuous communication with production, sales, quality and finance. She/he will also work with all departments to help drive plant efficiencies and reduce operating costs.

The Production Analyst will primarily interface with the Finance and Quality Managers – but will have regular interactions with other members of the GVA team such as the Operations, Production, and Sales. The Production Analyst will be responsible for all BOM creation/management, finished goods, and share in the accountability for short product and long inventory.

Responsibilities:
Safety Leadership

Promotes an organized and efficient production environment that drives a safe work culture in the Greater Vancouver Area.

Master Data Management

Responsible for setup new items and their associated product recipes and BOMs at each plant.

Works closely with Sales and Quality to maximize saleable m3 from each plant based on the inventory and finished goods of the site.

Works closely with Quality Manager for BOM uploads and recipe data in all systems for production.

Ensures BOM’s and corresponding recipes are uploaded into all systems upon request.

Workflow

Coordinate with billing coordinators for each market area to help resolve workflow errors that are holding up billing in a timely manner

Create Purchase Orders for material suppliers and manages the requisitioning of such in SAP

Reconcile Finished Goods inventory in the system daily

Inventory/Consumption Tracking

Daily Receiving of all raw materials

Coordinate admixture receiving with P2P groups if needed

Create monthly physical inventory processes

Work with PM’s and Operations to ensure systems are in place for monthly and annual physical inventory counts

Analyze results of physical counts to identify opportunities and concerns.

Ensures product inventories are managed (and reflected in reporting) so that material and inventory data is up to date and reconciled in all reports and systems.

Provides consistent and effective reports for production, sales and finance management.

Business Analysis

Review daily production and sales reports from each plant for finished goods reconciliation.

Review inventory items with plant managers and identify issues and improvement opportunities.

Review material losses with Plant and Finance Managers for reconciliation and identify issues and improvement opportunities.

Work with Finance and business to generate Reporting for Inventory, Sales and other business analysis

CAPEX

All duties related to CAPEX managing and maintaining capital expenditures

Other Duties

Act as a support for work groups that may need assistance in regards to SAP expertise, BOM knowledge, workflow error resolution

Help create reports or KPI’s for business areas (ie/ delivery trackers, sales reporting from BW)

Perform monthly variance analysis on materials

Relationships with Others Jobs

Reports to Finance Manager

Works directly with key stakeholders (e.g. Plant Managers)

Works closely with other functional teams (e.g. Sales, Logistics, Production, Material Performance and Quality)

Works closely with Other Production Analysts to create consistency between areas

Qualifications:
Education & Work Experience

A minimum of 2 years relevant experience in Manufacturing or Finance

Knowledge & Skills

Drive for result

Passion for excellence

Strong people skills

Problem solving and analytical skills

Disciplined and process oriented

Strong computer skills and familiar with ERP system and flows

As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required.

LafargeHolcim:
As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are passionate, driven by curiosity and keen to grow, learn, develop and thrive in our high-performance culture.

Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.

Check out our YouTube channel to learn more about our operations and see all career opportunities at www.lafarge.ca/careers.

We thank you for your interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Lafarge is committed to the principles of employment equity and encourages the applications from women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.