Senior Industrial Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for understanding the integration of manpower, facility space, materials, equipment, etc. for a process.
• Ability to analyze, design, and implement solutions across various areas like manufacturing, logistics, and operations.
• With limited direction, this position exercises considerable latitude for leading process improvement projects with enterprise-level impacts.
• Anticipate risks and/or future needs and address complex technical issues required to accomplish a technical goal.
• Guide the successful resolution of technical problems, apply the latest technological advancements to the problem, and function in a project leadership role.
• Serves as a consulting resource for lean manufacturing principles, process engineering, and general industrial engineering knowledge.
• Collaborate with Design Engineering during prototype, development and first article manufacturing.
• Collaborate with Operations Program Management and P&L to establish processes related to international operations and foreign customers.
• Establish and maintain work instructions and other documentation associated with manufacturing and ancillary processes.
• Clearly and effectively communicate both verbally and in written form to both technical and non-technical audiences, especially regarding manufacturing processes, engineering issues and proposed changes, and quality issues and dispositions.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; nine or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, seven or more years of experience with a masters degree, or four or more years with a PhD.
• May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Experience with Engineering change processes, from requests through implementation is required.
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Experience with Drawings and engineering/manufacturing bill of materials is required.
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma Manufacturing methodologies for waste reduction and their application in a manufacturing environment is required (Lean Six Sigma Black Belt desired).
• Knowledge of ERP systems (SAP desirable).
• Basic CAD design experience (floor layout and small tooling preferred).
• Experience using discrete simulation software (Simio or PlantSim preferred).
• Materials management (warehousing, transportation, logistics) experience desirable.
• Must have experience demonstrating the application of general understanding of engineering concepts, principles, and while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment and organize work assignments to meet established timetables.
• Must be able to work extended hours as required.
• Able to obtain and maintain DoD Secret Clearance required.