Production Analyst

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:
As a
**Production Analyst, Pipe & Precast**, you will lead, implement and manage a consistent and safe approach to production, sales and inventory reconciliation as well as Bill of Material/Recipe creations for all Pipe & Precast product lines in the MBSK market. 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. You will also work with all departments to help drive plant efficiencies and reduce operating costs.

As a Production Analyst, you will primarily interface with the Finance and Operations Managers - but will have regular interactions with other members of the MBSK team such as the Quality Control, Production, and Sales. You will be responsible for all Bill of Material creation/management, finished goods, and share in the accountability for short product and long inventory.

**Responsibilities**:
**As a Production Analyst, you will be responsible for**:
**Safety Leadership**
- Promotes an organized and efficient production environment that drives a safe work culture in the MBSK market.

**Master Data Management**
- Responsible for setup of new items and their associated product recipes and BOMs at each plant.
- Works closely with Sales and Quality to maximize sales 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 Quality Managers to ensure correct product and source codes are being used and resolve system production errors.
- 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
- Other Finance analysis (to be determined as become more familiar with SAP and systems)

**Operations Administration**
- Keep records of all supplier contracts & performance records (safety, quality, etc.).
- Work with purchasing group, operational specifiers, and vendors to obtain required information and prepare clear, concise and accurate product and service description for inclusion in specifications, scope of work statements, purchase order and RFP (requests for proposals), and simple service agreements
- Collect bill of lading and other information to receive on purchase orders
- Receive on purchase orders once work has been completed and confirmed
- Ensure all purchase orders prior to release are compliant with Health and Safety policies and initiatives
- Co-ordinate with corporate services on: vendor creations, modifications, deletions modifications
- Co-ordinate with the business regarding resolution on P2P issues as they occur and perform root cause analysis to ensure that best practices are captured and shared amongst team
- Process sales orders and manage project shipments, focus on supporting departments to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of interdepartmental operations
- Support annual Purchase Order generation and receiving.

**Relationships with Others Jobs**
- Reports to the Finance Controller
- Works directly with key stakeholders (e.g. General Managers, Plant Managers)
- Works