Sr Industrial Engineer - Remote

$70,200 - $137,800/Yr

UnitedHealth Group - Minnetonka, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Minnetonka, MN

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About the position

At UnitedHealthcare, we're simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable, and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. UnitedHealthcare's Industrial Engineering specializes in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology, and consulting services that enable better decisions and performance. Your career will be greater at UnitedHealthcare through advancement, access to data, ability to impact the healthcare industry, and rewards for delivering on our mission; Helping People Live Healthier Lives. The Sr Industrial Engineer understands the principles of statistical quality control, innovative ways to understand business intelligence, basic project management skills, and leading organizational change. You will bring your working knowledge of time studies, processing mapping, statistical modeling, and inferential statistics. You will get to help grow and develop our process engineering team into industry leaders in the healthcare field. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assigned operations, managing work standards, identifying cost savings, and other special engineering projects to drive cost efficiency and operational improvements
• Act as a liaison with other segments of Business Enablement to improve operational coordination and standardization
• Collaborate with other teams to deploy enterprise productivity tools
• Complete end-to-end business process activities that include reviewing, creating, controlling, and improving business processes
• Develop innovative solutions using industrial engineering fundamentals, advanced statistical models, development of new technologies, and common sense
• Assist leadership team in establishing project strategies, developing project plans, and cost/benefit analysis to ensure project success
• Provide analysis for identifying business requirements, specifications, design requirements, and testing efforts for process improvement, technical, and analytical projects
• Consult with organizational leaders on standard time measures, analysis of work samples, and developing methods of measuring work performance
• Apply statistical modeling and perform mathematical methods to determine account level operational process performance and staffing requirements
• Improve workflows by studying process flowcharts, recommending modifications in workflow and work procedures
• Recommend methods for improving utilization of personnel, deployment of technology, and tool development
• Utilize your knowledge of statistical quality control principles, business intelligence innovation, project management, and organizational change

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals including documenting processes, process mapping, creating and deploying process documentation standards, and process documentation governance procedures
• 1+ years of experience using time and motion studies (stop watch or fixed motion)
• 1+ years of experience applying statistical methods
• Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Power BI and / or SQL
• Experience with capacity planning
• Experience managing multiple, simultaneous projects
• Experience with data mining methods and optimization techniques
• Experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals in a service industry
• Experience as a change agent with demonstrated transformations in the process engineering domain
• Proven excellent communication, influencing, storytelling, change management, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution