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: /

What your day looks like:

We are seeking a datadriven, detailoriented Production Analyst to analyze plant performance and support continuous improvement across our meat processing operations. This role partners closely with production, QA/food safety, maintenance, supply chain, finance, and IT to turn operational data into actionable insights. The ideal candidate understands manufacturing and meat-industry dynamics-yields, giveaway, throughput, downtime, labor efficiency-and can build reports and models that help leaders make fast, informed decisions.

• 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 rawtofinished 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 runtime standards, BOM accuracy, and routing times; recommend updates.
• Provide SKU and customerlevel 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 auditready 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 selfservice 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 linelevel KPIs.
• Quantify project benefits (hard/soft savings) and report progress to leadership.

Who you are:

• 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, problemsolving, and communication skills; ability to explain data to nontechnical audiences.
• Detailorientation with a bias for action in fastpaced, multishift environments.

Preferred

• Experience with meat industry metrics (rawtofinished yield, giveaway, trim recovery, SPC for process control).
• Handson 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.

In addition to our more traditional benefits, we also offer great perks and numerous resources for professional development and team building:

• Promotional opportunities
• Rewards and recognition programs
• Robust onboarding and training program
• Employee Discount Programs (Perks at Work)
• Employee referral program
• Encouraging and collaborative culture

What our benefits are:
• Paid Time Off
• Care bridge Employee Assistance Program For all full-time members
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision