Manufacturing Analyst, Oee [Mccain Foods]

Position Title: Manufacturing Analyst, OEE

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Requisition ID: 23621

Position Description

This position is critical to the long-term strategic success of McCain's Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) data. The successful candidate must have a relentless focus to drive world class manufacturing analysis in a high impact role that has meaningful implications to McCain's global performance management.

Core Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Analyze Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) data to identify trends and generate insights from findings

• Identify recommendations to capture opportunities or address risks and challenges
• Analyze SKU, line, plant and regional data to identify trends within the business
• Review OEE data (weekly and monthly) for completeness and accuracy in preparation for analysis in PowerBI
• Deep dive, investigate, and understand the key loss buckets and drivers within availability, performance, and quality
• Generate insights and finding on key OEE metrics (availability, performance, quality)

Work closely with key stakeholders (e.g., Plant Leads, Finance) to investigate and follow up on opportunities and challenges

• Determine and understand the implications of findings to different stakeholder groups (i.e., plant impact, financial impact)
• Validate findings with stakeholders (e.g., confirm understanding, obtain more information to support analysis)
• Collaborate regularly with other teams to proactively identify challenges and opportunities to further enhance performance

Create reports and visualizations to communicate and present findings with key stakeholders

• Present at key operational meetings (e.g., Working Team)
• Develop presentation materials (e.g., PowerPoint, PowerBI) to socialize findings with key stakeholder groups

Support OEE governance and continuous improvement to evolve OEE capability

• Perform data diagnostics and work closely with IT and Plants to identify and address challenges
• Work closely with key stakeholders (e.g., plants) to ensure alignment and adherence to OEE methodology
• Develop training materials and documents to support communication of changes, updates, and new processes
• Identify opportunities to internal processes, data, or technology to improve OEE reporting

Provide ad-hoc program support for other initiatives (ongoing and proposed)

• Support Director in developing insights and findings to support other initiatives (e.g., business casing)

Key Experience & Requirements

• Influencer, able to persuade others to action without absolute authority
• Assertive, mature, proactive, diligent, take-charge individual that is confident in putting ideas forwarded open to challenge others and ask questions
• Finance Manufacturing knowledge and experience preferred
• Strong analytical, data mining and financial modelling skills using tools such as PowerBI, SAP, and other data analytics technologies
• Experience and demonstrated ability to interact effectively and quickly establish trust and credibility at the senior management level as a strategic financial partner.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, MBA preferred
• Superior written and verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex financial concepts and issues in a simple, compelling, and concise manner for presentation and discussions with senior management and other nonfinancial business leaders.
• Strong modelling and excel skills with the ability to understand complex excel formulas, simplify templates, and cleanse data
• Strategic thinker and enabler with an inquisitive mind and healthy intellectual curiosity
• Professional Finance designation (i.e. CPA or MBA preferred)
• Strong ability to navigate matrixed environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and foster positive and effective business relationships.
• 3-5 years of progressive finance and analysis experience

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Research & Development
Division: Global Manufacturing Operations
Department: Global VSM & Loss Analysis
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)