Industrial Engineering Manager
Department:
Manufacturing
Reports To:
Manufacturing Group Manager
Location:
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Supervises:
N/A
Status:
Salary
Skills and Experience Requirements:
General
- Minimum of five years of industrial engineering experience in the automotive sector
- Minimum of five years of industrial engineering experience in a non-automotive sector
- Minimum of two years of project management or supervisory experience
- Must demonstrate excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Possess entrepreneurial qualities and a focus on growth in the industrial engineering market and corporate engineering service offerings.
- High level of analytical and logical problem solving ability
- Ability to work efficiently within a cross-functional manufacturing engineering environment complementing other aspects of manufacturing engineering (i.e. material flow, dock analysis, supply chain, simulation, facility engineering, program management, logistics teams, etc.)
- Thorough understanding and knowledge in industrial material handling processes / systems
- Extensive knowledge in LEAN manufacturing process and initiatives
- Understanding of material handling and associated logistics
- Basic understanding of conveyors, tooling, and equipment
Engineering
- Experience with facility capacity impacts such as; re-scrolling, mid-cycle action, line speed changes, volume modifications, throughput initiatives and platform variant implementations
- Ability to review and study current operational characteristics of a manufacturing process
- Experience with time studies using; MODAPTS, MOST, MTM-UAS.
- Ability to review and implement process changes into a facility’s operation
- Able to revise manpower assignments to reflect process and/or element changes
- Review/development/implement/ operator and station optimization
- Ability to create and/or modify Standard Work Instructions and process scroll
- Identify, plan, implement line balancing/rebalancing
- Able to develop all aspects of a perfect workstation station (i.e. line side material, equipment, etc.)
- Knowledge of golden-zone ergonomic initiatives and enablers
- Identify and develop productivity plans
- Experience with the identification of bottlenecks and throughput issues and propose/implement corrective actions
Computer Skills:
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Project
- Pro Planner (not required but is a plus)
- AutoCAD
- Other: MS Access and AutoCAD experience is a plus
Minimum Education Required:
- Bachelors (I.E. or M.E.)
Other Requirements:
- Ability to Travel
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s License
- US Citizenship
- Personal Credit Card