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Lafarge Canada Inc Hiring for Inventory Analyst Job at North Vancouver Full Time
Why work for Lafarge?:
As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required.
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a greener, smarter and healthier world. At Lafarge Canada Inc., safety comes first, collaboration matters and diversity is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually make our materials better.
Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?
Overview:
The Inventory Analyst will lead, implement and manage a consistent and safe approach to production, sales and inventory reconciliation as well as Bill of Materials (BOM)/Recipe creations for all ready mix and aggregate sites in Greater BC area. This will be accomplished through various daily/bi-weekly and monthly monitoring and adjustments of inventory and production metrics at all plants as well as continuous communication with production, sales, quality and finance. She/he will also work with all departments to help drive plant efficiencies and reduce operating costs.
The Inventory Analyst will primarily interface with the Finance and Quality Managers – but will have regular interactions with other members of the team such as the Operations, Production, and Sales. The Inventory Analyst will be responsible for all BOM creation/management, finished goods, and share in the accountability for short product and long inventory.
Responsibilities:
Safety Leadership
- Promotes an organized and efficient production environment that drives a safe work culture in the Greater Vancouver Area.
Master Data Management
- Responsible for setup new items and their associated product recipes and BOMs at each plant.
- Works closely with Sales and Quality to maximize saleable m3 from each plant based on the inventory and finished goods of the site.
- Works closely with Quality Manager for BOM uploads and recipe data in all systems for production.
- Ensures BOM’s and corresponding recipes are uploaded into all systems upon request.
Workflow
- Coordinate with billing coordinators for each market area to help resolve workflow errors that are holding up billing in a timely manner
- Create Purchase Orders for material suppliers and manages the requisitioning of such in SAP
- Reconcile Finished Goods inventory in the system daily
Inventory/Consumption Tracking
- Daily Receiving of all raw materials
- Coordinate admixture receiving with P2P groups if needed
- Create monthly physical inventory processes
- Work with PM’s and Operations to ensure systems are in place for monthly and annual physical inventory counts
- Analyze results of physical counts to identify opportunities and concerns.
- Ensures product inventories are managed (and reflected in reporting) so that material and inventory data is up to date and reconciled in all reports and systems.
- Provides consistent and effective reports for production, sales and finance management.
Business Analysis:
- Review daily production and sales reports from each plant for finished goods reconciliation.
- Review inventory items with plant managers and identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Review material losses with Plant and Finance Managers for reconciliation and identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Work with Finance and business to generate Reporting for Inventory, Sales and other business analysis
Other Duties
- Other Finance analysis (to be determined as become more familiar with SAP and systems)
- Act as a support for work groups that may need assistance in regards to SAP expertise, BOM knowledge, workflow error resolution
- Help Finance create processes for business groups
- Help create reports or KPI’s for business areas (ie/ delivery trackers, sales reporting from BW)
Relationships with Others Jobs:
- Reports to Controller
- Works directly with key stakeholders (e.g. Plant Managers)
- Works closely with other functional teams (e.g. Sales, Logistics, Production, Material Performance and Quality)
- Works closely with Other Production Analysts to create consistency between areas
Qualifications:
Education & Work Experience:
- A minimum of 2 years relevant experience in Manufacturing or Finance.
Knowledge & Skills
- Drive for result
- Passion for excellence
- Strong people skills
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Disciplined and process oriented
- Strong computer skills and familiar with ERP system and flows
As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required.
LafargeHolcim:
As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are passionate, driven by curiosity and keen to grow, learn, develop and thrive in our high-performance culture.
Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.
Check out our YouTube channel to learn more about our operations and see all career opportunities at www.lafarge.ca/careers.
We thank you for your interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Lafarge is committed to the principles of employment equity and encourages the applications from women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.
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