Industrial Engineer

Description:

This position will be responsible for designing warehouse solutions for RFIs, RFQs and RFPs from existing or potential customers, modeling those solutions for operational needs and financial costs, and creating facility designs to support those solutions. This position will also be responsible for storage system design and installation, new equipment purchase, and other start up-related activities for new facility openings.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyze initial sales information to determine data needs for cost modeling. Create a proposed operations solution, and subsequent modeling of the proposed solution for costing. Determine rates for storage, handling, and special activities including facility costs, equipment requirements and staffing needs.


• Create AutoCAD facility designs, project Gantt charts, project calendars, process flow charts and preparation of the resulting data for use in sales packages or presentations in response to the RFI/RFQ/RFP.


• Presentation of results of solution design and its associated cost modeling to both internal and external customers.


• Ensure operations solutions are prepared for implementation, including, but not limited to, requesting quotes from vendors for all storage systems, miscellaneous material handling equipment, and any needs not under the direction of other company departments or personnel.


• Responsible for the installation of the quoted materials and for the establishment of the storage location system in the start-up facility.


• Responsible for initiating and implementing labor standards and labor tracking systems for new and existing operations, specific to customer requirements.

Job Requirements

Job Related & Physical Requirements

• MS Office/PC skills, must be proficient in MS Excel, MS Access and MS Project
  
• Must have superior data analysis and information management ability
  
• Excellent communication/presentation skills
  
• Layout and design layout using CAD
  
• Flow charting and process development
  
• Ability to travel at least 75%

Experience, Education, and Training

• Experience with Gantt charts and Project Plan Management/Development
  
• Conveyor set up and/or design experience
  
• Design and/or facility start up
  
• Quality Assurance a must
  
• Experience in pick pack, case picking and/or pallet operations
  
• Refrigeration or frozen food pricing a plus
  
• Budgeting experience helpful
  
• Degree in Industrial Engineering, Logistics or Supply Chain
  
• 2-5 years experience
  
• Six Sigma/5S a plus

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