Analyst, Methods I

What are your contributions to the team?

• Prepare, plan and maintain work instructions including product specifications, assembly manuals, PVA’s and technique sheets establishing the information required to manufacture a part or assembly. Apply estimated standards for tool build times as well as set up, run and assembly times to parts and assemblies.
• Analyze new and complex designs of major modifications, major assemblies, installations, subassemblies, detail parts and recommend design changes. Shows progressive manufacturing bill of material for parts and assembly.
• Conceive, conceptualize and generate requests for all related tooling including masters, interchangeability / replace ability media and tool coordination requirements.
• Issue instructions to facilitate tool design and fabrication including tool type, quantity and performance requirements. Recommend jig functions and hard point locations for tool coordination.
• Generate requests, parts list, assembly sequence and condition of supply information. Liaise with all departments in order to resolve in-house and vendor technical problems and facilitate continuous improvement opportunities.
• Develop manufacturing plans based on the product strategy, develop resource plans and program schedules at and below the rate item level. Work with senior personnel to develop time / method studies as well as justify and implement capital acquisition plans.
• Work in design build teams and provide process capability and commit to produce ability.
• Define and order hand tools and consumables.
• Responsible for relevant work required for actioning RNCs.
• May investigate discrepant parts and tools using lofted information. May hand-carry parts and tooling for investigate purposes.
• Working with Production, Engineering and Finance, the Methods Analyst will be responsible for providing recurring and non-recurring production and direct support labour hour estimates for Mod’s, change proposals, customer requests, cost reduction initiatives and make / buy requests. Perform other related duties as required.
• Work has to do with simple new projects or repetitive assignments. Must plan or replan the operations on any of the following projects utilizing existing machinery and tooling where practical. Also estimate operations times.
• Recommend the type and quality of material, fixtures, jigs, gauges and tools required to produce parts processed.
• May prepare simple sketches to clarify suggestions, contacting tool design, estimate time for tool manufacture.
• Estimate correctly from drawings or sketches the accurate finished cost of a part or parts for which records provide only a portion of the essential information. May be required to prepare accurate estimate on parts for which no past record is available. Is required to fill available time on work which is relevant to the classification.

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