Descripción
The Role:
The Senior Industrial Engineer position will develop, recommend, and implement changes which will result in the improvement of manufacturing processes and or product quality. The ability to work in a dynamic manufacturing environment is critical to your success General Motors.
- Develop, status, and analyze Manufacturing Master Schedules in sufficient detail to monitor progress, assess program status, and identify performance issues in a timely manner.
- Use critical path methodology and application in network development, analysis, and problem resolution is required.
- Optimize sequence of operations and work flow.
- Create crew plans to ensure resources are properly allocated and utilized effectively.
- Create metrics to monitor schedule progress and help identify risk areas.
- Work to improve efficiencies through waste elimination and process improvements.
- Perform data analysis to establish shop metrics and tackle complex problems.
- Provide Technical support and assistance to manufacturing and maintenance team members, production supervisors and production associates
- Combine data-driven analysis with practical plant-floor judgment.
- Communicate clearly with operators, skilled trades, engineers, leaders, and business partners.
- Build alignment and influence decisions without relying on formal authority
- Identify risks early, challenge existing practices constructively, and sustain improvements after implementation.
- Develop others and share effective industrial engineering practices across the plant.
Onsite: This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Orion, MI on a full-time basis.
What you’ll do:
- Evaluate ergonomic risks, operator motion, workstation design, tooling, material presentation, and standardized work to reduce risk and improve operator effectiveness.
- Lead direct-labor industrial engineering activities for assigned plant areas, including time studies, work measurement, standardized work, line balancing, and labor planning.
- Establish and maintain accurate standard work and labor data using approved work-measurement methods and standard-time systems.
- Analyze production processes, staffing, cycle time, variation, and material presentation to identify opportunities to improve safety, ergonomics, quality, throughput, and productivity.
- Develop and implement line-balance plans, staffing recommendations, process changes, and production-trial support for current and future vehicle programs.
- Partner with production and manufacturing teams to identify root causes, eliminate waste, improve flow, and sustain gains through documented processes and management systems.
- Apply lean manufacturing and GM manufacturing-system principles to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Support process-FMEA activities, launch readiness, change management, model-year changes, and implementation of engineering or manufacturing changes.
- Develop clear analyses, recommendations, presentations, and implementation plans for plant leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Lead projects with broad scope and multiple stakeholders while managing timing, risks, deliverables, and accountability for results.
- Coach and mentor less-experienced engineers and manufacturing team members in industrial engineering methods, problem solving, work measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain strong working relationships across all levels of the organization and represent Industrial Engineering in plant initiatives and reviews.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing engineering, or a related engineering field
- 2 years extensive ergonomic experience
- Demonstrated experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, or a comparable manufacturing environment.
- Experience with time study, standard work, line balancing, or labor planning.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, ergonomics, and manufacturing or assembly processes.
- Ability to analyze complex problems, develop practical solutions, and execute projects with significant autonomy.
- Strong communication, presentation, project-management, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with production, engineering, quality, skilled trades, and plant leadership.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous direct-labor Industrial Engineering experience or equivalent automotive manufacturing experience.
- Experience with global manufacturing systems, standard-time data, or comparable enterprise manufacturing systems.
- Experience with plant launches, production trials, model-year changes, or major process changes.
- Experience with throughput analysis, waste elimination, ergonomic assessments, and operator-centered workstation design.
- Experience coaching others or leading cross-functional improvement teams.
- Prior leadership experienced
Información sobre diversidad
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