Materials Analyst

Oshkosh Corporation•Appleton, WI

21h•Onsite

About The Position

At Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh company, the team builds highly customized, carefully designed, and engineered pumpers, aerials, tankers, and rescue units that protect people and communities worldwide. With over 30,000 apparatuses on the road, Pierce emphasizes innovation, expertise, customization, and service, ensuring their trucks perform under the toughest conditions. The Materials Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting the development, standardization, advancement, and implementation of a lean enterprise material flow strategy. This position requires advanced analytical skills to identify opportunities and develop solutions that optimize material flow at the lowest total landed cost. The Materials Analyst will also align efforts cross-functionally to maximize the return on investment for lean material flow initiatives, returnable container implementations, logistics route engineering, and shortage mitigation. Oshkosh is a global company that designs and manufactures specialty and access equipment under various brands.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Materials, or a related field with at least three (3) years of relevant experience, or a minimum of nine (9) years of applicable experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

Lead development and deployment of cross-functional strategic initiatives to reduce costs in the supply chain by removing wastes.
Lead project teams through to completion.
Ensure project schedule attainment, KPI targets and executive report outs of project status.
Support standardization, advancement and implementation of a lean enterprise material flow strategy. Scope includes but not limited: KPIs, PFEP, replenishment systems, WMS, inventory control, production scheduling and IT support systems.
Update critical ERP system parameters to align with the optimal material strategy in conjunction with Plan for Every Part (PFEP) process.
Maintain required documentation outside the ERP system as necessary to support ongoing monitoring and change management.
Support measurable improvement in parts shortages due to poor production and materials planning, inventory errors and damage within the facilities.
Resolve problem utilizing acquired knowledge and analytical abilities.
Compile data from ERP systems, spreadsheet, and other sources to support decision-making in conjunction with the Plan for Every Part process.
Forecast workload based on demand projections.
Leverage shop-floor lean material flow implementation experience to lead and support projects focused on synchronization of material consumption with production, maximizing efficiency of material conveyance routes and optimal materials presentation to the point of use.
Significantly reduce excess material handling inside facilities, between facilities and to and from local suppliers through extensive value stream analysis and application of PFEP principles.