Job Summary:

Industrial Engineers, under limited supervision, support initiatives involving the research, selection, justification, design and timely installation of major manufacturing equipment and manufacturing design layout for company facilities improvements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Industrial Engineers creates statements of work for project, coordinates with purchasing and vendors to procure quotes, and responsible for submittal/approval of capital expenditure requests. Manages vendors for on-time and on-budget installation of equipment and facilities improvements.
• As Industrial Engineer, support facility design including layout of machines, equipment, offices, material handling equipment, raw material and product storage with the purpose of establishing the most efficient workflow and utilization of the facilities as possible. Typically involves investigating, analyzing, and determining the overall advantage of requests for new facilities and equipment, the rearrangement of existing facilities and the modifications, repair or scrapping of machinery and equipment. Develops short- and long-term manufacturing strategies and objectives to include capital equipment and tooling investments.
• Leads industrialization efforts to automate production processes. Manages projects aimed at automating production processes. Working in conjunction with Technology Department resources, responsible for on-time and on-budget project completion and hand-off to Production.
• Utilizes Continuous Improvement tools to identify opportunities and leads process improvement projects designed toward optimizing operational costs and achieving maximum utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, and investment dollars. Implements industrialization manufacturing techniques and processes (JIT, Continuous Flow, Kanban, manufacturing cells, etc.) aimed at reducing manufacturing labor costs, product throughput time, cycle time, inventory, and overall manufacturing operations costs.
• Recommends industrial improvements keeping in mind the interaction of related operations or tasks and the optimization of operational costs. Designs and conducts training for process and system changes, labor management system and Continuous Improvement tools.
• Designs and oversees the fabrication and installation of manufacturing aids and equipment modifications to assist production as required.
• Assists in organizational planning by identifying capacity constraints and specifying requirements of optimization including facilities usage, equipment usage and human effort.
• Advises management on cost impact of new jobs and the economics of making or buying parts and processes.
• Develops, through various work measurement techniques, engineered time standards and performance measures required for performing various operations and introducing work simplification in order to reduce costs and eliminate motions

Req Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 years of experience capacity planning experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with a high sense of urgency.
• 2 years’ experience in specifying, evaluating and installing factory machines and various equipment.
• Must be able to perform work subject to ITAR/EAR regulations and/or program requirements.

Preferred Qualification:

• Ability to develop one piece flow, Kanban systems, and pull systems essential.
• Visualization of factory experience layout preferred.