Industrial Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are :

From Georgia. For Georgia. Since 1914 Yancey Bros. Co. has proudly served as the authorized Caterpillar equipment dealer for Georgia, providing our customers with the highest quality sales, parts and service. From Caterpillar heavy and compact construction equipment to on-highway trucks, we remain committed to learning more about our customers, offering equipment and support to keep up with their changing needs. This all starts with our greatest asset…our employees.

What You Will Be Doing :

As the Industrial Engineer for Yancey Engineered Solutions, you will design, implement, and sustain processes and systems that improve safety, quality, and productivity. You will also work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, energy, and other commodities. You will manage, track, and control operations as well as manage performance improvement processes.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities :

• Prepare and distribute engineering data to the manufacturing area to ensure the complete transfer of information from design engineering to manufacturing technicians in a timely manner.
• Monitor and provide engineering support to ensure customer products are manufactured and processes are operating economically and in control management goals and quality expectations. Analyze deviations. Develop and implement corrective actions.
• Review customer delivery projects for raw materials, indirect materials, and consumables required in manufacturing. Ensure the raw materials, indirect material, and consumables are ordered, delivered, and available to the manufacturing technicians in a timely manner to ensure continuous manufacturing.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop equipment and tooling justifications, quotation requests, acceptance criteria, and purchasing documentation. Review quotations, support vendor selections, and ensure tooling and equipment received meets acceptance criteria, quality expectations, and is installed and commissioned per schedule.
• Develop and implement approved improvement projects involving process control, equipment, capacity and productivity targeting quality, cost, and delivery performance.
• Assist production supervisors in trouble-shooting process and quality problems. Perform root cause analysis, develop and implement countermeasures based on PDCA process.
• Write work instructions and assist in training of work instructions.
• Develop specifications for new equipment, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) requirements, and operating work instructions.
• Support equipment installation, process description, and operational / performance qualification activities for manufacturing equipment and manufacturing processes. Generate all related documentation in compliance with internal requirements.
• Analyze plant layout and propose improvements for manufacturing flow.
• Assess and measure labor content to set process standards and evaluate variances.
• Assist business areas in the creation of time-based Standard Work for all tasks and activity.
• Collaborate with other departments to develop technical solutions to manufacturing problems, finding solutions that are thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives.
• Apply statistical tools to complex problems and teach statistical tools to others as required.
• Play a leadership role in the Plant Safety Program.
• Further the goals and positive, professional image of YES.
• Know YES’s Quality, Safety and Environmental Policies and be able to fully discuss their importance and how they impact work.
• Additional duties as assigned by manager.

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Who We Are Looking For :

To be successful in this position you should be process oriented, show attention to detail, and have a sense of urgency. You should excel at working in a team environment with a customer service driven mentality. The ability to multitask and problem solve are essential to this position as well.