Regional Industrial Engineer

Summary Of Duties

• Conduct time studies and define labor standards for the production process.
• Develop, install, and maintain equitable productivity standards.
• Work includes development of standards data, crewing guides, reconciliation reports, and the use of work-sampling techniques to resolve questions of operator utilization or performance.
• Measure variances to standards, identify out of control variances, investigate reasons, and suggest solutions, and follow up for resolve.
• Identify all non-value adding tasks/positions and help eliminate through process improvement, Job combination, or Automation.
• Analyze process flow to establish throughput goals, identify process bottlenecks and help eliminate them.
• Develop and maintain weekly labor efficiency report.
• Educate plant personnel on work measurements and assist corporate with labor initiatives.
• Aid in the development of SOPs for critical positions to support training initiatives.
• Identify ergonomic issues for critical positions and propose a solution to mitigate injury risks.
• Review SPC charts for Redzone and help drive improvement.
• Work as a gate keeper of all labor and volume standards.
• Identify waste throughout the process and support driving kaizen projects to reduce waste.
• Help plants create business case/ROI for all labor related capex projects and track success.

Education requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, Engineering, Mathematics with industrial engineering background, or closely related field.

Experience requirements

• 2 years of experience production engineer related occupation in the food industry.

Special Skills Or Other Requirements

• Must have experience with each of the following: Complex data analysis with Microsoft Office products including MS Project, Word, Excel, and Access.
• Root cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone, A3)
• Capacity analysis and labor modeling
• Throughput, yield, and efficiency improvement
• Statistical analysis and performance tracking
• Green Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification required.

Travel requirements

50% - 75% travel required to oversee three domestic plants located in Tyler, TX, Valley, AL, Gainesville, GA.