Industrial Engineer - Operations Process Excellence

$78,000 - $124,800/Yr

Ingram Micro - Jurupa Valley, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Jurupa Valley, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Industrial Engineer - Operations Process Excellence role at Ingram Micro focuses on delivering tactical lean projects that align with Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement initiatives. The position aims to achieve objectives related to Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost by utilizing lean tools and methodologies. The engineer will be responsible for analyzing processes, implementing strategies for continuous improvement, and facilitating training and development in lean operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuously improving results by leveraging Lean principles, practices and tools, consulting skills, and change management processes.
• Utilize strong analytical and process mapping skillsets to gather data, analyze processes, and implement strategies for continuous improvement.
• Actively participate in the Lean Leader global community to benchmark and incorporate best practices.
• Improve Lean body of knowledge, training and facilitation skills by pursuing continual Lean learning.
• Promote and facilitate associate development in various Lean tools, lean operations, and kaizen leadership.
• Facilitate Kaizen and continuous improvement events to build and lead focused and empowered teams to address systemic problems.
• Provide formal and informal Lean training and capability building.
• Assist ALC / Operations leadership in the development of a Lean transformation with planned resource allocations.
• Implement operational balanced scorecard metrics for the designated operations scope.
• Promote and facilitate diagnosis of workflow bottlenecks and other wastes throughout the operation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent work experience in warehouse/distribution, manufacturing, or logistics environment.
• Three or more years in fast-paced, high-volume distribution environment working in quality, statistics, continuous improvement/Lean strongly preferred.
• High system and transactional knowledge of total ALC required.
• Experience leading visual daily management, Gemba preferred.
• Experience in consultative approach, problem solving, training, facilitation, change management required.
• Moderate Kaizen facilitation experience preferred.
• Value-stream mapping experience preferred.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; knowledge of WMS (IMFirst) preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in consultative approach, problem solving, training, facilitation, change management required.
• Moderate Kaizen facilitation experience preferred.
• Value-stream mapping experience preferred.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• 401(k) plan and company match
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits