Shop Floor Data & Measurement Analyst

Kratos Industries; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Kratos Industries is seeking a Manufacturing Systems & Data Analyst to design and install practical shop-floor measurement. The role centers on capturing accurate data at the point of work, ensuring data integrity, and converting it into trusted metrics for decision-making.

The position reports on measurement quality, supports capacity planning, and builds self-serve reporting to empower line leaders while maintaining data reliability across the assembly floor.

Responsibilities

• Design and install shop-floor data capture that people will actually complete — developed with the teams doing the work rather than issued to them — and own its accuracy.
• Own data integrity as a deliverable, including capture rate: reconcile what is recorded against what actually occurred, and do not publish analysis built on data whose completeness is unknown.
• Validate the measures the department already reports — test them against independent evidence, resolve discrepancies rather than restating them, and raise the level of detail at which data is captured so that a figure can be traced to the job, the operation and the cause.
• Design and run targeted measurement studies to answer specific operational questions the department cannot currently answer, reporting the method alongside the result so the figure can be trusted and repeated.
• Develop the department's work-content unit — a measure of the work a job actually contains, validated against actual hours on completed jobs — so that load and capacity can be compared in the same terms.
• Build and maintain the department scorecard across safety, quality, delivery and cost, drawn from source data with no manual re-keying.
• Report labour and material variance to estimate on every closed job, and feed systematic findings back to estimating and quoting.
• Develop labour-hours-based staffing models accounting for leave, absence, turnover and training time, replacing staffing planned by section count.
• Support capacity planning with the Planner and Manufacturing Engineering as time standards mature.
• Build self-serve reporting so that managers pull their own numbers, and the analyst's time goes to measurement and analysis rather than to re-reporting.
• Hand the running of capture routines to line leadership — they should sit inside supervisors' and leads' normal work, so the measurement survives any change of post-holder.

Job description

Kratos Industries is seeking a Manufacturing Systems & Data Analyst to design and install practical shop-floor measurement. The role centers on capturing accurate data at the point of work, ensuring data integrity, and converting it into trusted metrics for decision-making.

The position reports on measurement quality, supports capacity planning, and builds self-serve reporting to empower line leaders while maintaining data reliability across the assembly floor.