Industrial Engineer I

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to engineering and manufacturing personnel to improve workflow systematically and physically, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of SAP functionality within the Production Planning (PP) and Variant Configuration (VC) modules to assist with root cause investigation of missing or incorrect information at fabrication equipment or in assembly relating to shop routings or material master data.
• Assist in creating and maintaining manufactured and purchased material master data, routings, and work center configuration.
• Write, revise, and audit shop routings for new or redesigned products.
• Utilize if-then logic to establish master routings where possible to minimize ongoing maintenance.
• Conduct time studies and/or analyze system data to develop appropriate labor standards for new and existing products and processes.
• Monitor routing operation confirmations to ensure labor credit is received.
• Maintain work center configuration to allow order-specific information to flow between systems and machines.
• Assist Engineering, Manufacturing, and IT with automation initiatives and the flow of information to and from machines.
• Develop an understanding of how material master data, BOMs, and routings heavily influence manufacturing business processes.
• Write, revise, and audit standard work documentation for manufacturing processes and procedures.
• Participate in best practice sharing events for labor tracking and reporting.
• May conduct and prepare labor and material cost estimates to track capacity projections for critical machines, work centers, and departments.
• Conduct and prepare labor and material cost estimates as required.
• Participate in product redesign and value engineering team efforts to ensure cost-effective, producible designs.
• Assist with the lean cultural transformation by participating in GPS events.
• Work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, and IT teams to assist in defining business process improvement requirements.
• Gather, document, and implement business requirements, and audit existing business processes to ensure procedures and best practices are followed.

Qualifications

• 4 Year / Bachelor Degree in engineering or years of equivalent experience required.
• 0-2 years of relevant work experience in engineering required.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in an office environment.
• Requires the ability to operate standard office equipment, such as a computer and phone.
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Repetitive motion: Substantial motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Requires close visual acuity to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Occasional mobility required to attend in-person meetings and complete various office tasks.