Industrial Engineer designs equipment or machine layout to coordinate activities and production planning to ensure products meet quality standards while minimizing production problems and costs. Develops and maintains manufacturing routes for maximizing space, efficiency, and effectiveness. Being an Industrial Engineer ensures compliance with industry safety and design standards and guidelines. Typically requires a bachelor's degree. Additionally, Industrial Engineer typically reports to supervisor or manager. The Industrial Engineer works on projects/matters of limited complexity in a support role. Work is closely managed. To be an Industrial Engineer typically requires 0-2 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
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Summary
This position supports the Ryder Continuous Improvement culture across the operation by actively applying continuous improvement methods to support new and existing operations.
The Engineer will identify and drive change within the operation through data driven CI, Engineering, and Automation efforts to deliver higher levels of performance in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
Effectively leverage data analytics, engineering methodologies, and advanced lean tools to enable root cause identification and elimination.
This position will interface with employees at all levels and functions across the operation. This position reports to the Lead Engineer, CI Manager or Sr.
CI Manager and is closely aligned with Operations Management.
Essential Functions
Collects data and performs statistical analysis. Maps and documents processes. Independently identifies process gaps; recommends and implements process improvement.
Develop and manage a thorough, effective, and timely continuous improvement plan to drive value for our customers (transformation plan development and execution).
Drive process improvement activities to achieve tangible improvement in the key business metrics of safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee development.
Manages and completes CI and steady-state engineering projects that lead to improved business results. Assesses CI initiatives and provides input and recommendations on future activities.
Support go-live and steady state certifications. Identify and support Automation projects. Regularly interacts with operations management and / or customer(s).
Develop and demonstrate competency in wide range of engineering methods, Lean tools, and quality standards and coaches employees in the use and implementation of CI, Quality Assurance, & Lean principles.
Applies engineering methodologies / tools such as product slotting, studying labor standards (time studies), layouts and optimization of flow, data profiling and analysis, and resource modeling to improve distribution and / or transportation operations.
Effective facilitation and execution Value Stream Maps & Kaizen Events through all stages (A3 charter ideation / creation, pre-work identification and completion, delivery of results in Kaizen week, regular follow up and follow through on sustainment).
Coach process owners on how to use lean methods to achieve operational excellence
Provide regular reports of data and actions to measure progress against the site objectives. Makes Inventory and / or Supply Chain strategy recommendations
Additional Responsibilities
Skills and Abilities
intermediate required
Warehouse design tools such as CAD (e.gAutoCAD); slotting (e.gSlot3D), Predetermined Motion and Time Systems and methods (e.
gMOST); Warehouse Management Systems (e.gManhattan Scale), and Labor MgtSystems intermediate preferred
conveyor and sortation equipment; and other automation solutions (e.gAS / RS)intermediate preferred
Tableauintermediate preferred
Qualifications
if MBA, then undergraduate degree in Engineering.
intermediate required
Warehouse design tools such as CAD (e.g. AutoCAD); slotting (e.g. Slot3D), Predetermined Motion and Time Systems and methods (e.
g. MOST); Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Manhattan Scale), and Labor Mgt. Systems. intermediate preferred
conveyor and sortation equipment; and other automation solutions (e.g. AS / RS). intermediate preferred
Llamasoft, Transportation Management Systems ie; JDA, OTM, , Mapping Software ie; Tableau. intermediate preferred
Travel : DOT Regulated : None
DOT Regulated : None
Job Category : Continuous Improvement
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Last updated : 2024-04-04
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