South Africa: Pre-Series Analyst posted by Profile Personnel

About the Role

The Pre-Series Analyst role at Profile Personnel involves coordinating and leading cross divisional commodity meetings to address risks and problems, managing special component orders to ensure optimal introduction of changes into production, and ensuring that call-off demands are correctly reflected at the supplier.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinating and leading a cross divisional commodity meeting to action risks/problems.
• Managing special component orders to secure the optimal introduction of changes into production to prevent volume loss, quality issues, or on-costs.
• Ensuring that call-off demands are correctly reflected at the supplier and that Quality and Engineering approval is complete before hand-over to CKD and Local material control.
• Managing pre-series stock levels by initiating the removal / scrapping /reordering of components based on pre-series build corridor and input from Engineering, Quality and Production/Pilot Hall to prevent overstock or incorrect HW/SW level in stock base.
• Monitor pre-series vehicle requests on COPS to ensure timeous SCE breakdowns are in line with an accurate BOM for sourcing parts in MY and new models introductions.
• Compile picking lists of pre-series vehicles and co-ordinate dunnage meetings prior to vehicle builds.
• Compiling and maintaining the pre-series database w.r.t component readiness, tracing and availability for the pre-series build milestones collecting information from various sources (SV orders, ProCKD, CX, WEBEDI, PROMON, Aekos, Deviations).
• Evaluating the impact of Aekos and essential Running Changes on the Pre-series Bill of Material and approve accordingly with recommended introduction dates.
• Manipulating the Single car explosion to implement temporary changes (Aekos/deviations) by determining appropriate usage PR, colour and trim combinations as well as effective period.
• Investigating and sourcing components for ad-hoc queries to ensure the accuracy of the bill of Material.

Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in Industrial, Electrical, Electronic Engineering, Production Management, Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Commerce, Logistics, Transport, Information Technology/ Systems, or Data Science.
• At least 3 years experience gained within the automotive industry in a Logistics environment.
• Project Management Experience.

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications: None mentioned

Salary & Benefits

• Salary information not provided

Essentials

• Analytical skills with an innovative approach to problem solving.
• Computer literate, Microsoft Office Package (Word; Excel & PowerPoint) SAP, Power BI.
• Understanding of RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
• Sound interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently (self-motivated).
• Ability to prepare and present reports and presentations to management.

Added Advantage

• German language.
• Knowledge of the specific Group systems.
• TEVON system including the reporting tool PROMON.
• COPS system.
• ProCKD.
• AVON.