Industrial Engineer

Actalent - Lake Charles, LA

Full-time - Mid Level

Lake Charles, LA

10,001+ employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Industrial Engineer position at Actalent in Lake Charles, LA, involves supporting a maintenance program and managing production schedules for airfracts along the US Border. The role requires planning, preparing, and controlling production schedules while resolving conflicts between competing programs and advising management on work progress and material availability.

Responsibilities

• Plans, prepares, issues, and controls production schedules integrating multiple program schedule requests into one executable schedule for production teams.
• Resolves conflicts between competing programs for common resources.
• Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed.
• Creates, maintains, and statuses network-based Master Production Schedules in support of E-6B programs.
• Fully understands critical path schedule network processing driven by logic durations and date constraints.
• Experience with IMP/IMS schedule structure as well as schedules based on Work Breakdown Structures.
• Exports schedule data to Excel and works with responsible parties to gather and report schedule status and productivity metrics per weekly and monthly reporting cycles.
• Identifies and analyzes critical and driving paths.
• Resource loads schedules including both labor and material.
• Exposure to MRP/ERP and shop floor MES systems with experience aligning program schedules with the manufacturing/production system.
• Motivated to work independently with minimum supervision while understanding the importance of the Master Production Scheduler role in contributing to the overall success of the program team.
• Familiarity integrating external customer or subcontractor program activity into the master production schedule.
• Analyzes and designs sequence of operations and workflow to improve efficiencies in plant and production facilities and equipment layouts, establishing methods for maximum utilization of production facilities and personnel.
• May establish or assist in establishing accident prevention measures and may manage training programs for personnel concerning all phases of production operations.
• Conducts studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems, developing and implementing plans and programs for facility modifications and revisions to operating methods.

Requirements

• Experience in planning and controlling production schedules.
• Ability to resolve conflicts between competing programs for resources.
• Strong communication skills to advise management on work progress and material availability.
• Experience with Master Production Schedules and E-6B programs.
• Understanding of critical path scheduling and logic durations.
• Familiarity with IMP/IMS schedule structure and Work Breakdown Structures.
• Proficient in exporting schedule data to Excel and reporting metrics.
• Experience in critical path identification and analysis.
• Ability to resource load schedules with labor and material.
• Exposure to MRP/ERP and shop floor MES systems.
• Motivated to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Familiarity with integrating external customer or subcontractor activities into schedules.
• Analytical skills to design operations and workflows for efficiency.
• Experience in cost control and production record systems.