Factory Manager Project Controlling - Rolling Stock North America

Overview

Pioneering in America, from the first mile to the last. This is what drives us! For more than 160 years, Siemens has been an integral provider of infrastructure, electrification, and transportation solutions in the United States. Automation’s impact on the railway industry is second only to the effects of digitalization. Combine them and the results are transformative! We work at the leading edge of this movement, applying our proven expertise in digitalization to rail infrastructure and automation.

Position Overview
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Siemens Mobility is seeking to hire a Factory Manager - Project Controlling for our Sacramento, CA Plant under Rolling Stock, North America to support current and future production backlog. You will be fully accountable to the Sacramento commercial and financial operations management through the execution of projects as you collaborate with internal partners. An ability to multi-task and drive actions with your team of Project Controllers (Commercial Project Managers) and together with Production Managers for keeping the projects on schedule, on budget and with high quality, will be critical to the role.

This role will be based in Sacramento, CA with a hybrid work schedule.

• Manage the interface with Projects Team on a monthly basis regarding status of production hours (standard and non-standard) and any root causes identified to facilitate appropriate corrective measures, internally and / or externally to Operations
• Manage and control the manufacturing costs related to a platform
• Perform deviation analysis to standard hours; quarterly evaluation of level of standard hours for platform / project and action for adjustments
• Perform planning and reporting (monthly closing, forecasts, budget planning); identify key drivers impacting manufacturing performance
• Ownership and management of factory offers submitted to Rolling Stock Sales for opportunities
• Manage the creation of incoming orders calculation on behalf of the Sacramento factory
• Control and coordination of internal factory interfaces
• Implement and drive measures together with Production Managers to improve manufacturing performance and increase productivity
• Manage the Interface with functional teams, internal and external to Operations (Factory Management, Production, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management, Business Controlling, Enterprise Scheduling, Order Management, Performance Controlling, etc.) to drive continuous transparency on bottlenecks impacting production’s value chain, and to enable the most current up to date view of any given project with the aim to proactively mitigate non-standard hours, delivering quality vehicles on time and within budget

• Bachelor's degree required, with a major in Finance, Economics, Business, or Accounting preferred
• 5+ years of validated experience with financial planning, accounting, and finance, with the ability to provide strategic insight through financial metrics
• Advanced analytical abilities, financial modeling, strong Microsoft Excel, knowledge of ERP systems (SAP a plus), and strong business modeling skills
• Excellently demonstrated verbal and written communication skills while interacting at all levels of the organization
• Ability to work in an agile environment
• Focus on continuous improvement