Job Description:
Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for a Production Control Analyst to join our team in Kinston, NC.
Your Challenges:
- Analyzes methods, facilities, and equipment to ensure optimum use of resources
- Evaluates and analyzes capability and capacity plans, processes, and products; recommends improvements; and implements approved changes
- Analyzes the impact of process and production changes on budget projections and develops and applies labor standards to production orders
- Coordinates, analyzes and presents performance data to manufacturing management for resource allocation decisions
- Oversees and directs the implementation of current and proposed manufacturing processes and products
- Assists in the layout of factory shop floors; ensures the accuracy of budget and performance status data
- Interfaces with manufacturing management and the tooling organization to ensure resource availability
- Represents the organization in cross-functional teams
- Ensures that implemented process enhancements meet improvement targets
- Implements manufacturing process improvements
- Develops shop schedules and capacity plans for work centers, machines, and tools
- Works according to established guidelines, exercising broad latitude in determining technical solutions with some guidance from more experienced analysts
- Applies technical principles, theories, and concepts frequently
Your Boarding Pass:
- 2-4 years of relevant experience with a BA/BS degree or a Masters degree with 0-2 years of experience.
- Experience organizing a matrix for day-to-day build plan for a shop
- Experience efficiently facilitating meetings
- Experience using an MRP system
- Ability to present data in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to schedule in a sequenced manufacturing environment
- Ability to run own project tasks and to understand the workflow from shop-to-shop
- Must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering preferred, although not a required accreditation standard program or another related field of study
- 3+ years of related experience
- 1+ year of experience in an analyst role
- Aerospace experience
- Experience using SAP
- Experience using Microsoft Project
- Experience with production control
- Experience creating and maintaining metrics
- Experience establishing plans around hours and overtime
Physical Requirements:
- Vision: Daily able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.
- Hearing: Daily able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
- Speaking: Daily able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
- Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors):Rarely able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.
- Carrying: Weekly able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
- Lifting: Weekly able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
- Pushing / Pulling: Several times a month able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
- Sitting: Daily able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer.
- Squatting / Kneeling: Daily able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
- Standing: Daily able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor.
- Travel: Once or twice a year able to travel independently and at short notice.
- Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): Daily able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.
- Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site
- Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.
