About the position
As the Industrial Engineer for Yancey Engineered Solutions, you will design, implement, and sustain processes and systems that improve safety, quality, and productivity while eliminating waste of time, money, materials, energy, and other commodities. You will manage, track, and control operations and performance improvement processes.\n\nThe role supports manufacturing by transferring engineering information, ensuring materials and consumables are available, supporting equipment and tooling procurement and commissioning, improving manufacturing processes, and helping resolve production and quality issues. It also involves developing work instructions and process standards, supporting equipment qualification, improving plant layout and manufacturing flow, applying statistical tools, and contributing to plant safety and the organization’s quality, safety, and environmental policies.\n\nThe successful candidate is process oriented, detail focused, and has a sense of urgency. They work effectively in a team with a customer-service-driven mentality and can multitask and solve problems. The position typically requires travel 10% of the time. Most work time is spent standing or walking, and the employee must be willing to work in extreme weather and around loud noises and wear appropriate personal protective equipment.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and distribute engineering data to manufacturing in a timely manner.
- Provide engineering support and monitor manufacturing processes to ensure customer products meet management goals and quality expectations; analyze deviations and implement corrective actions.
- Review customer delivery projects for required raw materials, indirect materials, and consumables, and ensure they are ordered and available in time to maintain production.
- Collaborate with leadership on equipment and tooling justifications, quotation requests, acceptance criteria, and purchasing documentation; review quotations, support vendor selection, and ensure equipment and tooling meet requirements and are installed and commissioned on schedule.
- Develop and implement approved improvement projects involving process control, equipment, capacity, and productivity to improve quality, cost, and delivery performance.
- Help production supervisors troubleshoot process and quality problems; perform root cause analysis and implement countermeasures using the PDCA process.
- Write work instructions and assist with training employees on them.
- Develop specifications for new equipment, Total Productive Maintenance requirements, and operating work instructions.
- Support equipment installation, process description, and operational and performance qualification activities, and generate required documentation.
- Analyze plant layout and propose improvements to manufacturing flow.
- Assess and measure labor content to set process standards and evaluate variances.
- Assist business areas in creating time-based Standard Work for tasks and activities.
- Collaborate with other departments to develop thorough, practical technical solutions consistent with organizational objectives.
- Apply statistical tools to complex problems and teach those tools to others as required.
- Play a leadership role in the Plant Safety Program.
- Further the goals and positive, professional image of YES.
- Know the YES Quality, Safety, and Environmental Policies and be able to discuss their importance and effect on work.
- Perform additional duties as assigned by the manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably concentrated in manufacturing or tooling, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 4 years of experience in manufacturing engineering or commensurate experience with related production.
- Knowledge and skill using statistical tools such as design of experiments (DOE), Six Sigma, and/or Statistical Process Control (SPC).
- Advanced knowledge of, participation in, and leadership of Continuous Process Improvement methods, including Kaizen, VSM, SMED, and PDCA.
- Advanced knowledge of CAD software or other engineering design and graphics software.
- Advanced logical and critical thinking skills, including the ability to develop, analyze, and draw conclusions about problems.
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Working knowledge of computers and systems, especially MS Office products, PLCs, and equipment control systems.
- Working knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems.
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while working with vendors, customers, and employees.
- Process-oriented approach, attention to detail, and a sense of urgency.
- Ability to work well in a team environment with a customer-service-driven mentality.
- Ability to multitask and solve problems.
- Willingness to work in extreme weather conditions and around loud noises.
- Ability and willingness to wear appropriate personal protective equipment.
Nice-to-haves
- Advanced knowledge and skill using statistical tools such as 5S-6S methods, Toyota Production System tools, Kaizen, and Lean Manufacturing methodologies.
- Advanced knowledge of, participation in, and leadership of Continuous Improvement processes, including Kaizen, PDCA, root cause analysis, and corrective action methods.
