Senior Cost and Profitability Analyst

Machine Sciences is a precision manufacturing platform serving aerospace, defense, and space. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, the platform has grown by acquisition to more than 400 people across precision machining, metal finishing, metal spinning, and hot isostatic pressing, with operations in Oregon, California, Illinois, and Florida. The platform is ITAR-registered and builds mission-critical components for the most demanding programs in the country.

Machine Sciences is a portfolio company of Viking Global Investors.

A platform this size, assembled this fast, outruns a cost model built for a single shop. That is where the Senior Cost & Profitability Analyst comes in. We want someone energized by making change happen, and intrinsically motivated to build the systems, calculations, and processes that make actual cost the ground truth: accurate, current, and traceable. Then to use them to answer the profitability question at all three points in a job’s life:

• Before we take it on. Will this quote make money at what the work will really cost?
• While it runs. Are we on plan, milestone by milestone, while there is still time to act?
• After it ships. Where exactly did we win and lose, answered fast enough and completely enough to change the next quote.

We need a cross-functional, autonomous operator. You will move between Sales, Estimating, Operations, and Planning without waiting to be handed the question, and you will have to communicate what you find well enough that people act on it. Mindset decides who succeeds in this role, not tenure.

• Own how cost is captured in Pro Shop: routings, work centers, time tracking, burden and labor rates, material and outside processing, plus the integrity of the data behind all of it.
• Work directly with the Pro Shop team on substantive changes to the system so the ERP mirrors operational reality instead of approximating it.
• Set the data discipline the floor lives by: clock accuracy, operation-level reporting, scrap and rework capture.
• Make cost traceable on demand by job, part, customer, program, work cell, and machine.
• Treat every recurring spreadsheet fix as a defect in the system. Find the root cause and close it at the source.

• Quantify quote-to-actual variance on every job that matters, and name the driver: cycle time, setup, scrap, routing, outside processing, material, or price.
• Feed demonstrated cost back into estimating: standard hours, setup times, material and outside processing assumptions, and margin floors that reflect what the work takes.
• Be the finance partner in the quote, before the number goes out.

• Track cost against plan through production milestones, and raise the flag while there is still time to act.
• Give Planning and Scheduling the cost truth they need: realistic cycle times, the true cost of the constraint, and the economics of expediting and batching.
• Chase the drivers when a job goes sideways: scrap, rework, downtime, utilization, throughput.

• Report where we won and lost by customer, part, program, and work cell, fast enough and completely enough to change the next quote. Then drive the fix, not just the finding.
• Flag the parts, customers, and programs where price no longer covers cost, and bring the recommendation with the analysis.
• Build the daily and weekly reporting the business runs on, automated from Pro Shop and trusted enough to kill the shadow copies.

• Partner with the Corporate Controller on inventory valuation, WIP integrity, absorption, and the close.
• Own manufacturing variance analysis: purchase price, material…