Industrial Engineer

Sesco Cement Corp - Houston, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Houston, TX

Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing

About the position

The position at SESCO Cement focuses on developing and sustaining efficient operational methods for engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain processes to enhance profitability. The role involves calculating and maintaining production capacity and product costs while ensuring compliance with safety and design standards.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates plans for equipment and machine layouts, workflow, and safety precautions to maximize utilization of plant and manufacturing facilities.
• Ensures compliance with established industry safety and design standards and guidelines.
• Evaluates worker productivity and recommends improvements to increase manpower efficiency and operating performance, reduce waste and delays, and promote cost control/reductions.
• Tracks and reports metrics to measure plant and equipment capacity output and identify equipment.
• Identifies improvement opportunities and quantifies possibilities.
• Collaborates with Quality and Methods engineers to create control plans.
• Analyzes, challenges, and improves material flow and plant layout to optimize production safety, efficiency, quality, and costs.
• Uses sound engineering logic and reason to identify solutions, conclusions, and approaches to problems.
• Provides guidance and support to operational management by identifying improvement opportunities and helping lead the annual manufacturing and improvement plans.
• Defines how a process should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and environment will affect the process output.

Requirements

• Proven experience in leading Kaizen events.
• Experience in the implementation of 5S.
• Experience in identifying waste through the utilization of Lean Tools.
• Firm understanding of performing root cause analysis.
• Experience in creating Work Instructions/SOP and workplace policies.
• Experience with workflow analysis.
• Ability to create and maintain required documentation for manufacturing processes, including flowcharts, capacity, utilization study, standard work, cycle time, and line balancing.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams/departments to gain better insights into processes.
• Lean Green Belt certification is a plus.
• High proficiency in Excel required.
• Experience with creating dashboards and maintaining KPIs.
• Experience in developing Quality Standards and Controls is a plus.
• Visio software experience is a plus.
• Strong communication skills are essential.
• Microsoft Power BI experience is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Lean Green Belt certification
• Experience in developing Quality Standards and Controls
• Visio software experience
• Microsoft Power BI experience

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance