Industrial Engineer

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What do we offer:

Competitive salary

Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care

On the job/cross training and promotional opportunities

Encouraging and collaborative team environment

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

What will you do:

Johnson Controls Inc. is looking for a detail-oriented industrial engineer to monitor our current operations and determine more efficient production processes. The industrial engineer's responsibilities include performing time studies, analyzing operations for opportunities for improvement, designing workflows and improving material flow, efficient site and assembly layouts and production processes, reducing inefficiency, and ensuring that final products meet the established quality standards.

The Industrial Engineer is responsible, under the guidance of the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager, for facilitating Industrial Engineering and Lean activities within the plant or a portion of the plant. Through implementation of specific action plans, training and advocacy, the incumbent will help to influence the organization to a new culture. They will demonstrate success through increased plant operational metrics performance.

The incumbent will be responsible for using the processes, measurements, standards, and efforts available with the primary focus areas of Industrial Engineering & continuous improvement. The incumbent is fully accountable for supporting the creation of an inclusive and positive organizational culture while assisting developing their personal skills.

How you will do it:

• To be successful as an industrial engineer you should be able to design production systems that maximize productivity, reduce wastefulness and production issues, are cost-efficient, and ensure high product quality.

• Designing the layout of facilities and determining personnel requirements, maintaining labor models.

• Improve site Material Flow by using tools like PFEP, Floor space Planning tools and Inv. Calculations.

• Calculate Capacity and maintain site capacity models.

• Perform Indirect Labor time studies, calculate utilization and developing action plans for improving plant efficiency.

• Reviewing production schedules, processes, specifications, and related information.

• Map production processes / use Value Stream Mapping to identify constraints and help with constraint management.

• Developing and implementing process improvements and analyzing current processes for new technological upgrades.

• Developing design and production standards in cooperation with management and Shop personnel.

• Preparing material and equipment lists, purchase orders, cost analyses, and estimated production costs.

• Training staff for new processes and providing instructions and manuals.

• Managing process/project documentation and preparing reports.

• Identifies waste and opportunities for the business to improve in (among others by using Lean principles and methodologies).

• Lead the cultural change of JCI employees (from firefighting culture to working according to standards), including leadership teams in their Lean competence development by coordinating the necessary training and coaching, and build internal capabilities.

• Utilize key Toyota Production System methodologies.

• Collaborate with site lean teams for improvements, participate or lead Kaizen events, and waste reduction.

• Support projects and metrics as directed by Leadership including Director of Operations and the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager.

• Support New Product Introductions and Improve upon processes for Production Verification.

What we look for:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, or related field of study

• Relevant work experience > 2 years

• Advanced knowledge of production machinery, processes, and standards

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and presentation skills.

• Troubleshooting skills and attention to detail.

• Proficiency in MS Office and AutoCAD.

• Time studies, calculating Capacity, Labor models.

• Experience in Toyota Production System principles and culture.

Preferred

• Master's in industrial and systems engineering or Relevant work experience > 5 years

• Toyota Production System principal knowledge of Takt time, flow production, Kanban and Load leveling.

• Certified in MODAPTs or other time motion studies, AutoCAD, Lean & Six Sigma (Statistical knowledge, SPC, MSA, DOE, Capability studies), any problem-solving tool.

• Ability to run Kaizen events.