Industrial Engineer

About the role

The Industrial Engineer will evaluate current manufacturing practices, manage production schedules, process work flows, enforce quality control, and improve production processes across the 4 public shipyards (PHNS, PSNS, PNSY, and NNSY) on behalf of PMO 555. This position does not allow for telecommuting and all work will be performed on-site in at one of the following Naval Shipyards: Norfolk, VA, Bremerton, WA, or Washington, DC, with travel to the other Shipyards as required.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current manufacturing practices
• Manage production schedules
• Process work flows
• Enforce quality control
• Improve production processes across the 4 public shipyards
• Manage Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) efforts across the shipyards to track layouts, floor plans, and equipment staging to ensure lean, streamlined access and up-to-date logs (utilizing RFID or other tracking tools)
• Use of both basic and advanced calculations to determine the current and potential productivity of a process
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary for an Industrial Engineer
• Develop relationships with coworkers when making recommendations
• Create viable solutions for a variety of challenges
• Analyse data and create reports to describe results for leadership and stakeholders
• Design production layouts for shipyards, production facilities, warehouses, and/or machine shops to increase productivity and quality standards
• Review current production schedules and processes to find potential improvements
• Estimate production costs
• Modeling and Simulation experience is highly desired
• Shipyard experience is required, including Machine Shop, or Factory Production experience

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering or civil engineering or related fields such as Modeling and Simulation, or Production Management
• Seven or more (7+) years of relevant expertise and experience as an Industrial or Manufacturing Engineer designing and developing production layouts for shipyards, production facilities, warehouses, and/or machine shops to increase productivity and quality standards
• Candidates with a Master's in Engineering may be considered in lieu of some experience
• Must currently hold a security clearance at the Secret level
• US Citizenship is a requirement for Secret clearance at this location

Qualifications

• PE Certification is highly desired
• Operations Research experience is highly desired

Skills

• Strong analytical skills
• Good leadership skills
• Ability to develop relationships with coworkers
• Ability to create viable solutions for a variety of challenges
• Ability to develop a plan to overcome problems
• Ability to analyze and interpret data
• Ability to create reports describing results

Pay

$110,000/year to $140,000/year, commensurate with experience

Schedule

High percentage of travel to other shipyards