Production Analyst

Description: Production Analyst About NFW NFW is a circularity platform for plastic-free performance materials.
NFW follows three Ground Rules in everything we develop: start well, stay clean, end well.
While nearly everything in the built world relies on some type of plastic that began as crude oil and that will become plastic pollution, we are establishing a new material reality.
We believe all materials should begin and end as nutrients, ready for the next growth cycle—true circularity.
Our multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries—from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery.
NFW technology embeds seamlessly into existing supply chains, enabling the world’s most iconic brands to design and scale products with high-performance, plastic-free materials.
NFW makes global brands more sustainable, empowering them to create without plastics.
Alongside the boldest brands and visionary designers, we are pioneering a naturally circular, post-oil economy.
NFW is a company of trailblazers, innovators and bold thinkers, committed to reinventing the way things are made.
We never stop learning.
We are fiercely curious about the world and how to improve it for everyone.
We offer competitive salary, paid vacation and paid leave time, flexible work-life balance, great colleagues and more! Production Analyst The Production Analyst will support the Operations and Production Control teams by ensuring accurate operational data input into NFW’s ERP.
This will be accomplished through coordination with operational management on the shop floor to capture accurate and timely reporting of labor hours and material consumption and subsequent balancing to ERP data.
This position will collaborate cross-functionally to help design and implement processes that improve efficiency of data entry and reconciliation, execution of required labor management tasks to maintain data integrity, and publishing and/or posting reports that help optimize operations and calculate accurate systematic product costing.
Responsibilities: Partner with Operations Management to ensure team member hours are accurately reported within GSS by workorder and then match GSS labor hours with Paylocity to reduce hour reporting variances.
Coordinate with shop floor team members, ops management and warehousing to ensure accurate consumption and reconciliation of materials issued by work order.
Partner with QC and warehousing teams to ensure accurate and timely data entry of WIP to FG and quality transactions.
Evaluate, document, and then execute daily labor management system maintenance tasks.
Coordinate with Manufacturing Supervisors and support departments to resolve discrepancies in labor management data tracking.
Publish labor management reports and other Excel based reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
Partner with demand planning to post and maintain work order visibility within manufacturing facility for all shifts.
Partner with Production Control and Production Operations team to identify BOM and/or Router discrepancies and adjust accordingly with notification to appropriate departments.
Ensure that the management team is provided with accurate, timely and relevant reporting and key performance indicators and additional assistance as needed.
Other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Bachelors degree in relevant field preferred and a minimum of 1-3 years of experience in a manufacturing setting or with data entry experience to support manufacturing required.
Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts to solve practical situations.
Ability to identify problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to work well with short deadlines and exhibit a sense of urgency.
Strong interpersonal skills, leadership, ability to problem solve, resolve conflict and analyze complex situations.
MS Office experience using Outlook, Word and PowerPoint with at least intermediate skill level with Excel.
Knowledge of Manufacturing Management Systems and Labor Management Systems preferred.
Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Frequently required to converse with others.
Ability to view computer screen or other variously assigned work activities.
Frequent use of hands to grasp, handle, or feel.
Sitting or standing for extended periods of time.
Kneeling, crouching, stooping ability.
Regular standing, walking, and reaching.
Ability to occasionally lift up to 15 pounds.
Primarily operates in office, lab and manufacturing environments.
Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, keyboards, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets.
Occasionally required to use personal protective equipment.
Ability to travel to business sites.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The Company is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team in which members of all backgrounds can contribute and thrive.
In compliance with state and federal law, the Company does not discriminate in employment or administration of its programs and policies on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, or military service.
Our policy reflects and affirms the Company’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all unlawful discriminatory practices.