Production Control Analyst

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Requisition ID: 21323 Ferrara/KME are premiere manufacturers of fire trucks and emergency response vehicles offering a full line of pumpers, aerials, industrial, wildland, and rescue apparatus. Working hands-on with both municipal and industrial fire departments, the Ferrara/KME team thrives on diagnosing departments' current apparatus limitations and response needs to custom design the perfect fire apparatus solution that will stand the test of time.   Ferrara/KME is part of the larger REV Group (NYSE: REVG), a leading manufacturer of specialty vehicles for the fire & emergency and recreation markets. REV Group’s extensive vehicle line-up includes models such as ambulances, fire trucks, terminal trucks, RV’s and much more. Our 6,500+ employees continuously demonstrate their commitment to building innovative and reliable vehicles that our customers can depend on whether for a family trip across the U.S. or when responding to an emergency. Rev Group is a veteran friendly employer and hires over 200 veterans and or those transferring out of the military each year.  

The Production Control Analyst is responsible for performing business analysis using various techniques, including statistical analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling, data mining.  The Production Control Analyst will determine the best practices and develop actionable insights and recommendations for the current business operations.  Works directly with the internal or external client to identify analytical requirements and will help to produce ad hoc data and reports.  In addition, work cross-functionally to assist in implementing or developing systems to capture business operation information.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support product supply and inventory plan consistent with the objectives of the business unit.
• Create a production plan for the assigned business unit and final production line.  The production plan considers customer order status, forecast, material availability, production equipment issues, ECN activity, and other related production issues in efforts to satisfy customer delivery performance and financial objectives, based on established priorities.
• Assist in resolving circumstances causing delivery, not in compliance with customer want dates or excess and slow-moving inventory, identifying causes, and developing solutions to improve current and future performance.  Provide material status and action plans to business units, materials management, and purchasing organizations.
• Maintain accurate Bills of Materials for existing products.  Support implementation of Bill of Material changes from Engineering Change Notices and maintain inventory and Bill of Material information to ensure accurate generation of parts lists for product supply sources.
• Develop knowledge of Material Requirements Planning by assisting Analysts in planning the phase-in and/or phase-out of products. Identify unique components for products being phased out or inactivated, preparing mechanisms for tracking inventory of unique components to insure use up plan to minimize excess and/or obsolete inventory is successful.  Monitor product phase-in/out plans to minimize excess or obsolete inventory and issue progress reports during the phase-out period.
• Develop an understanding of product life cycle planning including the process of master scheduling, new product introduction, product phase-in/out, and inventory planning, and provide backup support to Production Control Analysts.
• Work to achieve annual inventory reduction and customer service performance targets.
• Identifying core value-adding processes and maximizing their performance and productivity.  Integrating and streamlining processes throughout the supply chain and ensuring adoption of the best maximum efficiency.

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of MS Office applications as needed to satisfactorily perform work assignments – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint as well as the ability to learn company enterprise systems as needed.
• Strong knowledge of warehouse management software.
• Must be organized, able to prioritize, set and keep deadlines, change direction quickly, and adapt to various work environments easily.
• Strong ability to work independently and at times discreetly, use sound judgment, and make thoughtful decisions in a timely manner.
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal and written, including following instructions.
• Must be able to work effectively in group settings through collaborative, solutions-oriented, and win-win approaches.
• Adopting new technologies to enhance performance and to leverage knowledge and information for driving competitive advantage.  Fostering an environment where technological innovations