What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Engineer position at McLaughlin Body Company?
SUMMARY
Under the direction of VP of Engineering, the Industrial Engineer is to implement activities that improve plant performance, including, safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, and human resource development. The industrial engineer must employ advanced simulation and numerical techniques to evaluate complex systems that are interrelated. The industrial engineer must be able to complete large-scale system kaizen activities by personally leading, challenging, teaching, and supporting plant-wide goals.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.
- Develop manufacturing work standards through job analysis, best ergonomic practices, and process flow analysis.
- Develop labor standards, and conduct time studies.
- Develop routings, product flow in manufacturing and workplace/ stations layouts and product workflow to optimize production efficiencies
- Process evaluation and conduct efficiency studies.
- Discovering a new way to assemble a product that will save time/ money and improve the quality.
- Materials management (Plan for Every Part) and material handlings (including forklifts) studies.
- Conduct and develop ways to reduce cycle time and increase throughput.
- Develop Plant Layout Design / Cell Layout
- Conduct ergonomic analysis (Human factors and anthropometry)
- Conduct Time and Motion Study (develop work standards and instructions using EASE)
- Facilitate new product development from an IE perspective (material flow, material and information charting, lead-time reduction, inventory analysis, process analysis, etc.)