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Senior Industrial Engineer

  • Localização
    • Lake Orion, Michigan
  • Tipo de trabalho Full time
  • Postou
  • Job Requisition JR-202622131

Descrição

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

Informações sobre diversidade

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Adaptações (EUA e Canadá)

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