Industrial Engineer
The Industrial Engineer works with all departments and suppliers to achieve a total cost culture throughout the organization by performing the following duties personally or through others.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform Takt time assessments, line balancing acts, value-stream mapping and cause and effect diagrams to identify areas for improvement
- Apply Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, value analysis, and value engineering tools to implement continuous improvement practices
- Implement industrial engineering and lean manufacturing practices to deliver the project savings, quality, safety, and productivity improvements required by leadership
- Work with cross-functional teams including NPD engineering, equipment engineering and maintenance teams to support on-going projects
- Develop and deliver technical training to all production personnel (Kaizen, DMAIC, lean principles)
- Design and optimize manufacturing layout incorporating material flow and headcount allocation
- Work with manufacturing engineers to design and iterate on manufacturing processes
- Perform Basic MOST analysis of process to project cycle times
- Balance processes to maximize efficiency
- Calculate inline and interline buffers to optimize production
- Work with factory simulation/modeling teams to validate line capacities, develop flow paths and aisle sizing for products, raw materials, and work in progress
- Support production startup and ramp up
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Industrial Engineering experience in a primary metals manufacturing environment is preferred (preferred Lean organization).
- Minimum of five years of cost control experience
- Excellent computer skills; Effective written and verbal communication; Ability to simultaneously execute multiple assignments; Problem solving; and Project management
- SAP knowledge a plus
Other Qualifications that contribute to a candiates success:
- Certified Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt
- Knowledge of 5S, lean manufacturing and 6-Sigma principles
- Proven track record of leading successful continuous improvement projects
- Experience mentoring/training engineers. technicians, and shop floor personnel in continuous improvement fundamentals
- Strong attention to details and data accuracy
- Knowledge in OEE, capacity planning, cycle time analysis and line balancing
- Experience doing the detailed analysis necessary to make data driven decisions on factory layout design, production line design or warehouse design
- Proficient with MS office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project)
- Ability to assist in setting the budget based on facts and data