Job Title: Industrial Engineer 3
Location - Sunnyvale CA
Length - Contract (12 Months+)
WoW: Onsite 5 days
Primary Function of Position:
The Industrial Engineer 3 will lead efforts to improve the efficiency of physical and transactional processes throughout the organization. In this position, the IE 3 will take a leadership role in advocating for a continuous improvement culture, executing projects of moderate to large scope across manufacturing operations, and driving lean improvement across numerous processes. The IE 3 may mentor junior staff and will be considered a technical SME. The candidate should have a strong track record of continuous improvement results, experience with project management and good soft skills.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Participate and may lead Industrial Engineering projects and activities. Projectsmay include value stream mapping, design reviews, new product developmentand introduction, new line or facility start-up, and facility design.
• Run structured technical problem solving investigations and utilize data driven analysis to provide recommendations and solutions to achieve improvement.
• Evaluate operations and identify improvement opportunities, utilizing data analysis and metrics to build a business case, and deliver on execution. • Monitor operational metrics including labor hours, WIP levels, and productivity, analyze data for trends, and collaborate with process owners to improve.
• Review and analyze work cell layout, process flow, material flow, etc. Assess best practices.
• Recommend cost-effective solutions for improving the utilization and efficiency of personnel, equipment and/or physical space.
• Lead projects that will result in improved costs and/or enhanced quality.
• Perform duties and train in the areas of time standards, line balancing, simulation modeling, cost estimation, manpower planning, and continuous improvement.
• Support large building or multi-cell layout changes.
• May lead layout changes of moderate size with minimal oversight.
• Upon request, perform strategic analysis and communicate findings effectively to various levels of management. This may include assessing long-range capacityforecasts from analysis to recommendations and justification for facilities,equipment, and/or manpower requirements for new or sustaining product ramp.
• May propose and/or draft reports or dashboards to support data analysis.
• May build simple reports or dashboards for analysis and deeper understanding.
• May maintain existing reports or dashboards as required.
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
Base Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree required in Industrial Engineering or related discipline, and 4years minimum of applicable, progressive work experience.
• Strong verbal communication and group presentation skills required.
• Proficient general software and data analysis skills required (e.g. Excel,PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)
• General project management skills.
• Ability to lead small to moderately sized change management initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage many projects concurrently and in a timely fashion.
• Advocating for Lean Manufacturing programs within the manufacturing operation.
• Understands implications of change and can work within Quality Systems.
• Minimal travel required (?10%).
Preferred Requirements
• Advanced data analysis skillset (e.g. Tableau, VBA, R, etc.) preferred.
• Simulation modeling experience (e.g. Simul8, Arena, etc) preferred.
• Experience working in medical device manufacturing and knowledge of industryregulations preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification with project experience preferred.
• New Product Development/Introduction experience preferred.
• Facility design and construction management experienced preferred.
