Where: Houston, TX
Post date: N/a
Description of the role:
This role finds ways to eliminate wastefulness in production processes. Devises efficient ways to use workers, machines, materials, information, and energy to make a product or provide a service.
Nature of Duties/Responsibilities
- Partnering with stakeholders to identify opportunities for area improvements in reference to cycle time, manufacturing efficiency, capacity planning, and productivity
- Using statistical analysis to optimize performance metrics and audit manufacturing capacity information
- Designing and coordinating projects, including developing business processes with other departments
- Partnering with management to develop applications to improve production metrics
- Partnering with stakeholders to support supply and demand changes
- Presenting findings and recommending solutions and gaps
- Serving as data and report consultants with customers and stakeholders
- Driving innovation by researching and using new data modeling techniques or tools
- Driving projects to ensure that deliverables are completed within the required timeframe
- Identifying best-known-methods (BKMs) and sharing them locally and globally
- Developing best practices, reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations
- Participates in machine run-offs; ensures that designs are followed and discrepancies are resolved.
- Oversees a process of change orders; verifies that process is well-documented and followed.
- Support the Design Team in one new product development initiative per year; providing analysis of costs and design efficiencies.
- Implements a system of drawing standards across the product line
- Work with Supply Chain to standardize major components within defined categories
- Participates in pre-sale process testing to identify requirements and develop process specific to our customer’s needs. Design process-specific solutions when required
- Confers with clients about product specifications, vendors about purchases, management personnel about manufacturing capabilities, and staff about the status of projects.
- Develops cost comparisons of alternate processes, parts, tooling, equipment, or systems within Operation.
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/MS in Industrial Engineering.
- Requires minimum of 2 years of related experience of solid industrial engineering experience, preferably with machine shops and box build activities.
- 2 years of related experience industrial engineering experience and manufacturing.
- Be good at reworking parts with very small features
- Strong experience with AutoCAD, floor layouts, Facilities knowledge.
- Lean Manufacturing, project management.
- Single piece flow, work cell layout.
- Ability to design, develop, implement and improve integrated systems that included people, materials, information, equipment and cost.
- Capable of performing root cause analysis to determine cause and solutions to various technical manufacturing issues.
- Product costing knowledge and ability to identify opportunities for cost reduction.
- Intermediate skill level with Microsoft Project, Database software/Access, Excel, and Word software.
- This position requires and intermediate to advanced skill level with CAD software or any software dealing with plant layouts and process flow mapping.
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