Manufacturing Excellence Analyst, Oakville

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Manufacturing Excellence Analyst.

This role is based in our office in Oakville, and reports to the Director of Manufacturing Excellence.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading KPI optimization and automation initiatives, leveraging all data sources. This person will support the manufacturing team by creating performance dashboards and reports which are coherent, visually immersive, and interactively insightful and actionable, at all organizational levels. The candidate will be accountable for leading and supporting operational excellence projects which drive performance improvement in the key metrics. Collaboration with other business units, such as, Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Sales, and the Global Operations Teams will be essential.

Principal Responsibilities

• Identify, create, and develop business opportunities identified through root cause analysis of current business processes.
• Build a level of data analysis service to all 24 manufacturing sites in North America.
• Communicate recommendations regarding the resolutions of issues to the relevant internal or external parties and drive consensus on the appropriate corrective action.
• Lead internal process improvement projects and work with IT on sustainable, long term solutions.
• Provide data analysis support to the Director, VP, and C-Suite levels.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Lead continuous improvement agenda.
• Support the manufacturing sites in the collection and communication of savings and cost out resulting from Operational Excellence initiatives.
• Cooperate with other internal departments according to business needs and strategies of Sales, Supply Chain, IT, and Finance.
• Work with the IT team to leverage existing and/or new platforms which facilitate the collection of data, creation of dashboards, and distribution of information.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Power BI
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Manufacturing
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a previous analytical, strategy, consulting, or research role
• SnowFlake
• University degree or College diploma in Engineering, Supply Chain or a Business-related discipline.

Preferred

• Project management experience
• Excellent Microsoft Office suite skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent written and oral English skills; French language skills an asset
• Lean, or Six Sigma, training is considered an asset.
• Strong influencing skills (up, down, across the organization)

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at [email protected]