IO Industrial Engineer, Jacksonville

Publix • Jacksonville, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Come join the Publix Industrial Engineering team supporting our Florida industrial operations, which include warehousing, transportation, and manufacturing! As an Industrial Engineer (IE), you’ll collaborate with other IEs and business process owners to identify and drive process improvements promoting efficient, accurate, and safe operations. Leveraging your engineering skills, systems expertise, and operational knowledge, you’ll support business plans, tactical initiatives, and ad-hoc improvement projects that advance Publix’s strategic goals. Publix is passionately focused on providing an exceptional shopping experience, and you’ll play an important part in that mission by ensuring our back-end facilities run efficiently and supply over 1,400 Publix stores across the Southeast with the high-quality products our customers expect.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience
• at least one (1) year as an industrial engineer (including internships) or at least two (2) years providing analytical or technical support with a demonstrated ability to perform exceptional process improvement work
• knowledge of statistics
• knowledge of ergonomics
• knowledge of process flow analysis methods
• knowledge of linear systems and operations research and resource allocation methods
• knowledge of facilities design methods
• knowledge of science and scientific method
• interpersonal and presentation skills
• knowledge of forecasting, replenishment, inventory management, production scheduling, and line balancing principles
• knowledge of writing techniques
• excellent written and verbal communication skills
• excellent analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
• project management and process improvement skills
• ability to work independently, be a self-starter and multi-task
• troubleshooting skills
• economic analysis and research skills
• ability to analyze and design processes
• ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information and matters
• ability to act in a professional manner
• strong conflict resolution skills
• ability to quickly learn new, complex ideas or concepts
• ability to visualize a situation
• strong facilitation skills
• strong decision making skills
• ability to train users
• ability to quickly assess new technologies and data sources
• strong negotiation skills
• high degree of self-motivation, commitment and integrity

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, MBA, or related discipline
• three (3) or more years as an industrial engineer or closely related profession and two (2) or more years of Publix experience at the warehouse, corporate or manufacturing support level with project leadership experience
• certified Six Sigma Greenbelt or higher
• certification by the Association for Operations Management (APICS), or Institute of Supply Management or American Society for Transportation and Logistics
• knowledge of the Publix Manufacturing and Distribution strategy and supply chain to support the execution of the strategy
• knowledge of the master data that drives the forecasting, planning, production scheduling, shipping functionality, inventory management, and warehousing
• knowledge of Publix operational processes
• knowledge of Distribution’s storage and inventory guidelines
• knowledge of Publix department structure
• knowledge of Publix’s accounting principles and tools
• knowledge of the Publix Quality Decision Process (QDP) steps and contac

Responsibilities

• develops and maintains engineered labor standards that are used to schedule, pay, and/or evaluate the performance of Publix associates and suppliers
• provides analytical decision support to assigned business areas through the use of core industrial engineering skills, mathematical tools, modeling and computational methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization
• provides business guidance and industrial engineering expertise to VP, Sr. Director, Director, Sr. Manager, and Department Managers.
• identifies process improvements for supported business areas and directs, plans and coordinates the day to day activities of up to one IE Support Specialist & up to one Student IE.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level