Production Analyst

Who are we: We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania.

We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement.

Leidy's is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wenger Group since 2022.

Leidy's is a 130-year-old pork company located on the family farm in Pennsylvania, where Jacob Leidy was deeded the original land grant by William Penn in 1753.

We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment.

With over 1000 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!

Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com / https://www.leidys.com

• Track and analyze daily/weekly/monthly KPIs (e.g., throughput, OEE, yields, giveaway, rework, scrap, downtime, changeover time, labor efficiency, and schedule adherence).
• Build dashboards and automated reports that highlight trends, anomalies, and root causes.
• Translate complex data into concise, actionable insights for supervisors and plant leadership.
• Monitor raw‑to‑finished yields by species, line, and SKU; quantify impacts of trim recovery and rework.
• Identify sources of giveaway and implement controls with operations and QA.
• Partner with R&D/operations to validate formulation adherence and spec compliance on processed items.
• Analyze capacity constraints and line rates; recommend line balancing, crew size, or shift adjustments.
• Work with finance to reconcile production variances (material usage, labor, overhead) and COGS impacts.
• Evaluate run‑time standards, BOM accuracy, and routing times; recommend updates.
• Provide SKU‑ and customer‑level profitability insights to guide rationalization or improvement projects.
• Collaborate with QA/HACCP teams to correlate process controls (SPC, CCP monitoring) with yield and quality outcomes.
• Track hold/release, customer complaints, and corrective actions; quantify financial and operational impact.
• Maintain audit‑ready data for USDA, GMPs, and traceability requirements in coordination with QA and Compliance.
• Reconcile raw, WIP, and finished goods movements between floor counts and ERP/MES transactions.
• Analyze shrink/waste and implement controls to reduce loss while maintaining food safety.
• Support traceability investigations with timely, accurate data pulls.
• Develop self‑service reports (e.g., Power BI/Tableau) and SOPs for data entry and reporting standards.
• Train supervisors on data capture best practices and interpretation of operational reports.
• Participate in Kaizen events and CI projects focused on yield, labor productivity, and throughput.
• Standardize measurement methods and implement visual management for line‑level KPIs.
• Quantify project benefits (hard/soft savings) and report progress to leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations/Manufacturing, Data Analytics, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2–4 years of experience in a manufacturing/production analytics role (preferably in food/meat processing).
• Proficiency with Excel (advanced functions, pivot tables, lookups) and data visualization (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Familiarity with ERP/MES data structures and manufacturing KPIs.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills; ability to explain data to non‑technical audiences.
• Detail‑orientation with a bias for action in fast‑paced, multi‑shift environments.
• Experience with meat industry metrics (raw‑to‑finished yield, giveaway, trim recovery, SPC for process control).
• Hands‑on experience with ERP systems (SAP, JD Edwards, Dynamics, NetSuite) and/or MES/LIMS.
• Working knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma tools (5S, SMED, value stream mapping, root cause analysis).
• Basic SQL or Python for data extraction/automation.
• Promotional opportunities
• Rewards and recognition programs
• Robust onboarding and training program
• Employee Discount Programs (Perks at Work)
• Employee referral program
• Encouraging and collaborative culture