Senior Industrial Engineer

2 months ago


Batavia, United States Suncast Corporation Full time

Summary:

The Industrial Engineer is responsible for plant layout, work cell configuration, assembly methods, work instructions, and maintenance of the engineering database.

Responsibilities:

The following duties are considered essential to this position. Other responsibilities may be assigned.

Production area layout.

  • The Industrial Engineer will draw and modify drawings of production areas of Suncast.
  • Production area drawings will include machine and production line placement. This will be in a two-dimensional CAD drawing. It should be updated whenever production area changes are made.
  • Work cell and production line layout.
  • This employee will work with the design engineer, automation engineer, quality assurance manager, facilities manager and production manager to develop the work cell and production line layout.
  • The work cell and production line layouts must include safety, ergonomics, product quality, cost effectiveness, and space use.

Vision Cells

  • Learn and be the lead on our vision cells
  • Be able to coordinate new jobs to run on these cells as well as troubleshot any issues that may arise.
  • Assembly methods.
  • This employee will work with the design engineer, automation engineer, quality assurance manager and production manager to develop assembly methods.
  • The developing of assembling methods must include safety, ergonomics, product quality, cost effectiveness, and space use.
  • Work Instructions
  • Create and maintain all work instructions for the manufacturing floor.
  • Develop new methods of work instructions in collaboration with the manufacturing team.

Kaizen Events

  • Understand pain points for the production floor and lead a cross functional team to a solution.
  • Track progress of the team and facilitate any meetings required to accomplish the goal.

Projects

  • Assigned projects from multiple departments. Able to determine and provide a project scope and deliverables.
  • Projects can range from a very short timeframe to very long.
  • Being able to stay on task and accomplish all tasks by the deadline
  • Generate and maintain product routing on the computer system.
  • The industrial engineer will ensure that each product has an accurate routing available.
  • Create routings for products with more than one production method, routings will be available for all approved methods.
  • Generate and maintain BOMs and item master data records. This may include generating multiple records for alternate methods on some products.
  • Packaging development. The industrial engineer will be a member of the cross departmental Pack Team. During packaging development the employee will focus on labor, equipment, and production process issues.
  • Operation analysis. The employee will perform operation analysis on all production methods to determine labor efficiency and to suggest improvements. Document and distribute to the production departments and to the organizational development department.
  • Perform operation analysis in a format that can be converted to work instructions and lesson plans. Update sheets as the process is improved or changed for any reason.
  • Develop and lead training classes for production supervisors and trainers on new production methods.
  • Lead informational meetings with production and quality management to review new production layouts and operation analysis forms.
  • Read trade journals and technical publications regularly to stay informed of technological changes. The employee should suggest trade shows and seminars that will inform him or her of new and techniques and materials.
  • Support and comply with safety policies, quality standards, and housekeeping methods at all times.
  • Understand the employee bargaining agreement (union contract) and ensure that work method suggestions are in accordance with that agreement.


Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or a related discipline plus three to five years of experience. An associate’s degree in industrial engineering plus seven to ten years of experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree.
  • Language Skills
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak to a group of managers, engineers, and production employees.
  • Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram and schedule form.
  • This position requires a high degree of computer literacy. The employee must understand file management methods using Microsoft Windows. This position requires basic knowledge of MRP software and how it relates to this position and various departments within a manufacturing facility. There must a strong understanding of two-dimensional CAD methods, preferably with AutoCAD (most recent release). The employee will be required to learn specialized programs for processes such as packaging evaluation, Time Study software, Suncast specific MRP software, and others. This employee must also be thoroughly familiar with spreadsheets and be able to use features such as complex formulas and graphing. A basic understanding of word processing and email is required. AS400 experience is a plus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing these duties, the employee will split his or her time between an office area and a manufacturing area. Typically, offices are climate controlled and have a moderate noise level for an office. Manufacturing areas are subject to seasonal variations in temperature. Noise level is generally moderate for manufacturing. Safety equipment is required when in manufacturing areas. Some travel to outside vendors may be required.



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