Industrial Engineer

Park City, Kansas, United States

• Category: Industrial Engineering

Description

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Job Description

Johnson Controls Inc. is looking for a detail-oriented industrial Engineer to monitor our current operations and determine more efficient production processes. Your 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.

What you will do

The Industrial Engineer is responsible, under the guidance of the Director, Logistics and Distribution, 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, you will help to influence the organization to a new culture. They will demonstrate success through increased plant operational metrics performance. 

You 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 Inventory Calculations.

• Calculate Capacity and maintain site capacity models.

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

• Improve Material flow and introduce Material automation. (AGV/VGV etc.,)

• 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).

• Utilize key Toyota Production System methodologies.

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

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.

Preferred

• 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.

Company

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Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers in more than 150 countries. Our 170,000 employees create quality products, services and solutions to optimize energy and operational efficiencies of buildings; lead-acid automotive batteries and advanced batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles; and seating components and systems for automobiles.

Our commitment to sustainability dates back to our roots in 1885, with the invention of the first electric room thermostat. Through our growth strategies and by increasing market share we are committed to delivering value to shareholders and making our customers successful. In 2015, Corporate Responsibility Magazine recognized Johnson Controls as the #14 company in its annual "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list.