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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