Position Title: Sr. Industrial Engineer
Location: Fort Worth 2101
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Workplace Type: Onsite
Reporting To: Jeremy Amadi
Compensation: $87,000 - $107,000 / year
Sr. Industrial Engineer
To provide Industrial and Process Engineering support to forward and reverse logistics, and testing of telecom related product ranges, to ensure production targets are met to agreed time, efficiency, cost and quality requirements are achieved. Responsible for determining most effective ways to create a product or service. Develops ways to increase productivity, maximize efficiency, and manage human capital more effectively.
The Sr. Industrial Engineer will be responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and managing; integrated, production and service delivery systems that assure performance, reliability, maintainability, schedule adherence and cost control within the production site. The Sr IE will adopt as its goals profitability, effectiveness, adaptability, responsiveness, quality, and the continuous improvement of products and services throughout their life cycles. The ideal candidate will have a strong background working with a team of production supervisors, operations managers, operators in a telecom production environment. The candidate will have experience with both hardware and software testing and integration methodologies and will be involved in verifying / certifying all aspects of a telecom-grade, fault-tolerant, highly available, hardware and software solution.
Key Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Same responsibilities as Industrial Engineer, but for bigger or more complex products/processes/equipment. In addition, this role will have a direct contact with Operations and therefor will manage the support technicians.
- Develop most efficient ways to use people, machines, materials, information, and energy to make a product or service.
- Help increase productivity by standardization of methods, workstations and man to machine interactions.
- Optimize methods of Operations organization.
- Study product requirements, design manufacturing and information systems to meet requirements.
- Develop management control systems.
- Perform mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes.
- Perform time studies on manual, semi-automated and automated processes
- Perform Gauge R&R (as applicable)
- Perform Takt time calculations.
- Assist in financial planning and cost analysis.
- Design production planning and control systems.
- Design methods to ensure product quality.
- Improve ways to distribute goods and services.
- Determine most viable plant and factory locations.
- Resolve production problems.
- Design layout of equipment and workspace.
- Estimate production costs.
- Create sampling procedures and designs.
- Evaluate accuracy of production and testing equipment.
- Study and rearrange org charts, material flow, and operations sequence.
- Develop Process Flow Charts, Process Control Plans and FMEA
- Evaluate effects of product design changes.
Secondary Functions:
- Designs portions of procedures and area processes for both in-house use (Factory Acceptance and Engineering development).
- Working with the program team, may interface with the customer including providing inputs to technical presentations, telecoms, formal reviews, etc.
- May contribute to designs that further advances Statistical Process Control (SPC), CPK error analysis tools and features.
- Provides technical support to other process disciplines and production personnel for release of new production programs and procedures. Assists in the transition from development to standardize production methods.
- Participates in integration, verification and validation activities of developed equipment placement and methodology.
- Participates in equipment maintenance procedures, and repair of equipment and systems in factory and field installation procedures.
- Prepares engineering changes, status reports, as required.
- Provides peer review in production environment and optimization projects.
- Provide inputs to metrics for reporting to Project Engineering Management as well as Corporate Management. This may include Technical Performance data, defects, etc.
Job Qualifications
Education/Certifications:
- Accredited College Degree in Industrial Engineering
- Training in Six Sigma Green Belt methodologies.
- OTJ training, previous years of experience.
- Auto-Cad 2D or 3D or equivalent a plus.
Preferred Education/Certifications:
Experience:
- Candidate should have experience with both hardware and software integration and testing methodologies and will be involved in verifying, certifying all aspects of a telecom-grade, fault-tolerate, highly available, hardware and software solution.
- Telecom LTE, WCDMA, GSM level of qualifications or equivalent.
- Production Line and process experience
- High Volume Low mix and Low Volume High mix environments
- 10 or more years’ experience as a telecom technician in a structured product development life cycle.
- Telecommunications/Telephony/SS7 experience is required.
- Wireless Provisioning experience a major plus.
- Business to Business Services
- Accredited Service Provider and Reverse Logistics a plus
- Line Layouts
- Line balancing
- Time Studies
- Gauge R&R
- Process Control Plans, PFMEA, FMEA
- Management and Customer Support Experience.
- Experience with all Telecom OEM a plus
Skills and Qualifications:
- The candidate should have strong written skills with core technical competencies in carrier-grade hardware requirements, mobile communication protocols, and next generation voice and signaling a plus
- The candidate must be a self-starter with the capacity/desire to be a team-lead on various projects.
- An excellent understanding of measurement and engineering principles, and equipment.
- An excellent understanding of Industrial Engineering principles and process knowledge would be a need.
- Ability to manage customer engineering interface and variant control.
- Efficient at writing work instructions, technical dialog and English as a speaking language in Work Instruction Development.
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project all necessary to manage objectives.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Self-Started, Motivated, and Ready to make a difference
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care)
- 401(k) Plan with Company Match
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 10.5 Paid Holidays
- Career Development Opportunities
About Group O
At Group O, it’s our employees who we value most. That’s why we provide a supportive environment where employees are given every opportunity to excel. Group O offers a wide variety of careers with room for professional growth and advancement, and we are always looking for motivated individuals to join our team. At Group O, our employees’ health and well-being is equally as important as the work they perform. We back up that philosophy by providing a competitive benefits package that supports now and for their future.
In 1974, Bob Ontiveros saw an opportunity to live the American dream and build a company for himself and his family. 50 years later, the packaging company he originally founded out of the back of his station wagon - Group O is ranked by the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as one of the top five Latino-owned businesses in the country. Group O has gained prestige for helping Fortune 500 companies like Samsung, Michelin, Caterpillar, and PepsiCo turn their most complex business challenges into centers of profitability and efficiency. Headquartered in Milan, IL, Group O employs over 1,200 employees.
Group O is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, and sexual orientation. If you require accommodations to participate in the job application process, please contact recruiting@groupo.com, we will work with you to meet your needs. Information provided by applicants will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. We respect your privacy and will handle your application data in accordance with our privacy policy.
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