Lead Cost Analyst

Clayton is a leading single-family, values-driven home builder dedicated to attainable housing, sustainable practices and creating a world-class experience for customers and team members. Our company portfolio includes a broad offering of attainable housing, and as a vertically integrated home builder, we are uniquely positioned to serve customers through every stage of the home ownership journey – building, selling, financing, and insuring homes.

From entry-level to more experienced positions, we're actively recruiting individuals who are passionate, positive, and eager to learn. We then equip you for success, whether you're in the office, in the field, or on the floor. As a member of our team you'll enjoy excellent benefits, opportunities for growth, and an encouraging culture that supports work / life balance.

Reports to:

Materials Manager Department:
Costing Job Status:
Full-Time / Salary

Position Summary:

The Lead Cost Analyst will conduct and oversee cost analysis activities, directing and assisting with estimates of initial and ongoing cost of products and projects. Identify plant and cost department problems and will develop and implement improvement solutions. Lead Cost Analyst will work with plant management to determine and resolve plant processes, take a leadership role on plant teams and will participate in plant and cost department projects.

The Lead Cost Analyst will have a thorough knowledge of cost systems and will perform analysis of cost data to prevent and resolve production and inventory issues.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff in the department.

Oversee the daily workflow of the department.

Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations .

Duties / Responsibilities:

Conducts market research to recommend changes to pricing or business models.

Prepares periodic cost reconciliation reports, tracking data such as changing labor and supply costs.

Develop and maintain accurate Bills of Materials for each model and each Option produced in their plant. Accomplished by:

Prototyping of new models and options

Re-audits of existing models and options.

Category Audits Like model comparisons.

Observe established costing policies and procedures

Complete training programs as provided

Participate in Oracle ERP implementation initiatives

Print the Daily Production Report, distribute, and review for margin irregularities.

Monitor the Engineering Change Requests (ECR) and respond to all necessary ECR's Immediately. This will include providing cost impact to the ECN, if necessary.

Provide cost where applicable for Sales Change and respond to all applicable Sales Change Requests (SCRs) immediately. This will include reviewing the applicable Production Work Orders (PWO) to ensure the correct cost details are provided. Attend daily and/or weekly staff & order read meetings. At these meetings communicate Damaged Material Report (DMR) issues, discrepancy issues from audits, inventory preparation, plant material issues, etc.

Modify any BOMs as required by authorized ECRs immediately. Communicate necessary changes with the plant buyer and plant management. Changes to the BOM are necessary to make sure inventory is relieved properly.

Provide cost details for any necessary options or projects as required.

Audit one ceiling per week for foam seal usage. Calculate the cost per LF and report results to the appropriate personnel.

Attend required plant meetings (e.g. employee meetings, quality team meetings, etc.)Audit at least one model and 12 options per month - Prototypes and/or Re-Audits.

Cost any necessary options that may be required for a Prototype BOM. These are sometimes required due to the urgency of developing pricing information or setting up information for purchasing.

Review ECRs for start dates

If you need to make changes to the cost of base units or options for homes, after they come offline, but before the month-end closing date, the home can be re-yarded to record the true or revised cost.

Key damaged materials reported (DMR) by the plant into the system. Investigate any unusual, reported quantities and forward to the plant buyer.

Review the changes that were made to the base BOM during the month. This report (Detailed BOM Analysis) is available from the Plant accountant.

Note:

You must justify any changes made to a base BOM with a cost impact of +/- $10.00

At month end the Plant Analyst should review the ECR file to make sure the ECRs approved for the plant during the month have been incorporated into the Bills of Material and options, when applicable.

Prepare facility for physical inventory

Direct involvement in conducting physical inventory

Review and reconcile physical inventory

Counting work in process material, work up official report

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Four-year degree in business related field – highly desired

Three to five years of experience in costing in a manufacturing environment, preferred

Must have excellent mathematical skills

Great attention to…