Methods Process Analyst 2

Cts Technology Solutions, Inc.; Everett, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 49,000 - 70,000; Full time

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Job summary

CTS Technology Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Production Planning Analyst on 2nd shift in Everett, WA. The role focuses on production stabilization, capacity planning, and tool/resource optimization under guidance from senior analysts.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s in a business discipline and 1+ year in manufacturing or production. Strong Lean knowledge, data analysis, and proficiency with MS Office are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related field such as Business Administration, Business Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or Economics.
• 1+ year of experience in engineering, manufacturing or production environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance against daily schedules or orders.
• Learn production processes to ensure correct sequencing and resource alignment.
• Identify defects trends and provide recommendations to reduce defects.
• Suggest process improvements to reduce non-value-added work and improve cost and flow.
• Support disruption recovery planning using resource capacity and constraint analysis.
• Collaborate with multiple support organizations to develop visual performance metrics and improvement plans.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Data analysis

Project Management

Structured problem solving

Interfacing with leadership

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management/Economics

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Everett, Washington 4+ months Up to $43.00/Hour Contract Shift-2

Takes about 3 minutes. No account required.

Position

Overview

Position is for 2nd Shift: 12pm-8:30pm
Conducts analysis of current and future business environment using established guidelines. Develops forecast, acquisition, and utilization plans to optimize resources in support of company initiatives and program business plans under the guidance of experienced analysts. Develops and maintains basic Business System factory definition to be used for manufacturing planning. Contributes to the development of labor hour estimates for new or revised production and tooling work packages under the guidance of experienced analysts. Monitors performance to established labor hour estimates. Under the guidance of experienced analysts, assists in the development of integrated tool and production master schedules by developing tool and position plan/documents, tool downtimes, rate flow plans, #1 flows, and tool sequencing plans to maximize the Assists in the identification and implementation of improvements to processes by analyzing current processes and utilizing established improvement methodologies to maximize the efficiency of equipment and personnel and to support company improvement initiatives. Under guidance of experienced analyst, analyzes changes to approved plans resulting from unplanned events. Assesses the impact of the changes that occur to cost, schedule, resources, and delivery. Develops modifications to existing plans and obtain approval. Participates in negotiations representing Production and Tooling Operations to support schedule commitments or statement of work impacts. Under the guidance of more experienced analysts, develops, implements, maintains, and statuses complex integrated shop operating plans to maximize the efficiency of equipment and personnel and to reduce inventory and meet cost and schedule commitments. Gathers and analyzes shop performance metrics in order to support a recommend plan of action for Production and Tooling Management.

Daily and Weekly tasks will focus on production stability, and can include:

• Analyzing performance to daily schedules or orders
• Learning the production processes to ensure correct sequencing and resource alignment
• Reducing or eliminate safety and ergonomic issues
• Identifying quality defects trends through root cause analysis and providing recommendations to reduce or eliminate defects
• Providing recommendations on process improvements that reduce non value-added work which would improve cost and flow.
• Managing disruption recovery plans using resource capacity and constraint analysis and integrating with leaders of downstream work statement to communicate impacts to schedules and major milestones

Our teams are very busy focused on stabilizing the current production system while looking ahead at future rate changes and introduction of new models/customers into our build plans. Candidates will be engaging with all manufacturing, engineering, and production-supporting organizations and must be a self-starter and a collaborative team player.

Describe the project/day-to-day activities they will be working on: We are looking for candidates willing to lead initiatives around production stabilization and sharing Business Administration methodologies applied throughout the industry. Ideal candidates would have experience with capacity planning, resource utilization, process improvement identification through lean methodologies, supply chain planning and logistics, collaborating with multiple support organizations, and developing visual tools to identify performance metrics and areas of opportunity.

4+ months — possible extension and possible FTE opportunity.

Requirements

What you'll need

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in business related curriculum such as: Business Administration, Business Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or Economics
• 1 or more years of experience working in an engineering, manufacturing and/or production environment

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 1 or more years of experience working in a team environment.
• 1 or more years of experience working with Lean Manufacturing and knowledge of lean principles
• 1 or more years of experience interfacing with senior and executive leadership.
• Experienced in Microsoft Office Suite products
• Experience in data analysis and developing metrics to drive results and business improvements.
• Experience in Project Management
• Proficient in structured problem solving.

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 3 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master+1 years' related work experience , 7 years' related work experience, etc.).

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