Sr Industrial Engineer

At UnitedHealthcare, we're simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

UnitedHealthcare's Industrial Engineering specializes in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology, and consulting services that enable better decisions and performance. Your career will be greater at UnitedHealthcare through advancement, access to data, ability to impact the healthcare industry, and rewards for delivering on our mission; Helping People Live Healthier Lives.

The Sr Industrial Engineer understands the principles of statistical quality control, innovative ways to understand business intelligence, basic project management skills, and leading organizational change. You will bring your working knowledge of time studies, processing mapping, statistical modeling, and inferential statistics. You will get to help grow and develop our process engineering team into industry leaders in the healthcare field.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assigned operations, managing work standards, identifying cost savings, and other special engineering projects to drive cost efficiency and operational improvements
• Act as a liaison with other segments of Business Enablement to improve operational coordination and standardization
• Collaborate with other teams to deploy enterprise productivity tools
• Complete end-to-end business process activities that include reviewing, creating, controlling, and improving business processes
• Develop innovative solutions using industrial engineering fundamentals, advanced statistical models, development of new technologies, and common sense
• Assist leadership team in establishing project strategies, developing project plans, and cost/benefit analysis to ensure project success
• Provide analysis for identifying business requirements, specifications, design requirements, and testing efforts for process improvement, technical, and analytical projects
• Consult with organizational leaders on standard time measures, analysis of work samples, and developing methods of measuring work performance
• Apply statistical modeling and perform mathematical methods to determine account level operational process performance and staffing requirements
• Improve workflows by studying process flowcharts, recommending modifications in workflow and work procedures
• Recommend methods for improving utilization of personnel, deployment of technology, and tool development
• Utilize your knowledge of statistical quality control principles, business intelligence innovation, project management, and organizational change

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals including documenting processes, process mapping, creating and deploying process documentation standards, and process documentation governance procedures
• 1+ years of experience using time and motion studies (stop watch or fixed motion)
• 1+ years of experience applying statistical methods
• Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Power BI and / or SQL
• Experience with capacity planning
• Experience managing multiple, simultaneous projects
• Experience with data mining methods and optimization techniques
• Experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals in a service industry
• Experience as a change agent with demonstrated transformations in the process engineering domain
• Proven excellent communication, influencing, storytelling, change management, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

UnitedHealthcare, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, is comprised of three specialized businesses dedicated to meeting the health care benefits needs of individuals and groups; all part of something greater, but each with a specialized focus:

UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual works with individuals, small businesses and large multi-site employers to provide innovative, affordable benefits services.

UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement is focused on serving Americans over the age of 50. It is the largest business dedicated to meeting the growing health and well-being needs of aging individuals in the nation, serving one in five Medicare beneficiaries through a comprehensive and diversified array of products and services through four industry-leading businesses.

UnitedHealthcare Community & State provides high-quality, personalized, public-sector health care programs that help local government agencies improve health outcomes for millions of children and low-income and disabled individuals at an affordable cost.

Together, we're removing the barriers that keep people from receiving the kind of quality health care that makes a difference. We focus on Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation and Performance as we empower people to achieve better health and well-being.

Come grow and thrive in our culture of innovation and ideas. Because there is no opportunity greater than the quest to help people live healthier lives.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $70,200 to $137,800 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.