Total Manufacturing Cost Manager

About the role

Railroad Friction Products Corporation designs and manufactures Cobra high-friction and low-friction composition brake shoes, specialty shoes, and disc brake linings for freight, locomotive and transit vehicles. The Total Manufacturing Cost (TMC) Manager will support RFPC’s Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing, Finance and Engineering departments. This role will have responsibility to create, maintain and analyze all Bill of Materials and routings in Oracle. The TMC Manager will provide support in establishing direct labor hours and manufacturing costs for all processes and products. The TMC Manager will run comparisons to ensure accuracy of the BOM’s and routings established in Oracle and highlight areas for improvement. This position will provide cost estimates to Engineering and Sales/Marketing for new projects. Close collaboration and partnership will be needed with the Controller in areas related to Inventory, Costing, and Special Projects. The role involves splitting time between a desk in a well‑lit, air‑conditioned cubicle/office and the operation floor with mechanical presses, requiring sitting for hours, walking/standing, occasional lifting of 10–15 pounds, and exposure to moving parts, high temperatures, dust, fragrance, varying temperatures, and high noise.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain all bills of material in the Oracle ERP system.
• Set up and maintain all routings in the Oracle ERP system for all part numbers.
• Perform cost updates in the Oracle ERP system.
• Perform Direct Labor time studies on all processes for all part numbers.
• Ongoing analysis of actual Direct Labor Hour timing per process to ensure accuracy and highlight areas of trending concern for a deeper understanding.
• Ongoing analysis of actual manufacturing costs versus system standards; reported and reviewed monthly with management resulting in actions to reduce variances.
• Ongoing analysis of actual product flow to ensure accuracy with the system routing.
• Ongoing analysis of Manufacturing processes scrap and yield percentages to keep Oracle BOM's updated.
• Provide cost estimates to Engineering and Sales/Marketing for new projects.