Production Analyst

Description

Job Summary: This role is responsible for the administrative management of the plant's operational staff to ensure production continuity, including scheduling, payroll, and recruitment. Key Responsibilities: 1. Manages operational staff administration to ensure production continuity. 2. Participates in the development and monitoring of shift scheduling. 3. Leads risk identification and ensures workplace safety. **Position Title:** Plant Personnel Analyst / Temporary **Location:** Lima Cercado. **Employment Type:** Full-time. **Reports To:** Ice Cream Plant Manager. **Department:** Factory. **Position Purpose:** Administers all operational personnel assigned to the plant to ensure production continuity. **A Day in the Life of...** * Develop weekly shift schedules for the plant's various production lines. Ensure daily production schedule compliance, considering medical leaves, absences, overtime, and operational staff constraints. * Participate in production schedule validation and monitor daily production schedule adherence. * Manage and enter into the system: leave requests, schedule changes, compensatory hours, overtime, and shift assignments—verifying staff time records for payroll processing. * Support implementation of medical leave and restriction policies. * Submit personnel recruitment requests aligned with plant needs, analyzing staffing trend data to improve overtime efficiency and reduce absenteeism. * Ensure timely performance evaluations for temporary staff to support contract renewals, new contracts, or stabilization processes. * Manage direct and indirect labor data: Overtime, Absenteeism, Disciplinary Actions—and propose improvement initiatives. * Monitor plant productivity indicators (Asset Intensity, Labor Productivity, Material Variance, MSA), identifying gaps and improvement opportunities. * Analyze root causes and required action plans for each indicator. * Ensure newly hired operational staff receive both general and line-specific onboarding training. * Ensure execution of the plant’s annual training plan for operational staff. Coordinate training hours with operator shift schedules to guarantee training adherence and full operator attendance. * Ensure implementation and response coverage of the mini-workplace climate survey. * Lead plant risk identification efforts; ensure personal and colleague safety by complying with all safety standards and protocols to prevent accidents. * Issue work permits: Hot Work, Height Work, Mode 4, Confined Space—to ensure continuity of high-risk tasks under established safety standards. * Comply with and enforce Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Quality Management System requirements (NMS, 5S). * Facilitate use of QMS Mobile on production lines. * Participate in identifying improvement opportunities for key indicators (IPA). * Lead/participate in area improvement activities (SDCA / PDCA), ensuring timely achievement of planned results. * Participate in and ensure execution of the plant’s continuous improvement implementation plan to meet established objectives. Conduct NCE, Safety, and Quality tool coaching on production lines / in the area. **What Will Make You Successful:** * University graduate or bachelor’s degree holder in: Psychology, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Administration, Food Industry, Production and Industrial Management, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Agroindustrial Engineering. * Minimum 1 year verifiable manufacturing experience in roles such as People Analyst, managing factory personnel. * Intermediate Excel proficiency. * Intermediate Power BI proficiency. * Intermediate Power Apps proficiency. * English: Basic to intermediate (ideal). * SAP: Basic. **Competencies:** * Active listening and effective understanding of people’s needs. * Strong interpersonal relationship skills. * Clear, assertive, and effective communication. * Constructive conflict management and resolution. * Proactive identification of opportunities and initiative-taking.