Industrial Engineer

Michelin • Spartanburg, SC

4d • Onsite

About The Position

This opportunity is at our truck tire plant located in Spartanburg, SC. Our 1.2 million square foot facility produces innovative medium to heavy truck tires that offer the best in energy savings, weather technology and durability for our customers. Our community of 1,300 employees take pride in their purpose of improving the long-haul transportation safety, costs per mile, and greenhouse gas emissions. The city of Spartanburg offers a great mix of city and country life, with its walkable downtown area and great places to eat. It is located near Greenville, which also offers great living amenities and an international airport. Our campus features include a cafeteria, company gym, and on-site credit union. We are driven to inspire our team to achieve both long-term career and personal goals. Caring, growing, and leading are at the center of our Spartanburg in Motion purpose. Come join our team today! Michelin has an immediate opening for an Industrial Engineer who will lead and run continuous improvement in productivity and innovation in areas that range from specific work posts to transverse processes. Michelin’s purpose is to support everyone’s right to move freely to find their better way forward. Our continuous improvement stimulates innovation and allows us to manufacture locally, which in turn, strengthens the local communities. Entry level training is provided by Michelin and will include formal classes and on-the-job mentoring under an expert area guide. If respect for people, teamwork and trust are some values you live by you should consider joining us, the Worldwide leader in Tires!

Requirements

• BS in Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent technical major is preferred.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with others both in verbal and written forms.
• Ability to set and achieve goals with minimum supervision.
• Success in working with other people or team to meet a common objective.
• Good interpersonal skills to show appreciation, use empathy to understand, resolve disputes professionally, and to practice active listening skills.
• Developed and implemented project plans that met or exceeded expectations.
• Microsoft Office Excel data analysis proficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Microsoft Power Bi a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and improve manufacturing processes, tools, equipment, and work activities, to meet and exceed the company's safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives by leading improvement projects and facilitating Kaizen/Lean events.
• Analyze and challenge existing procedures in areas of responsibility throughout the facilities, making recommendations, and working with the operational management to integrate solutions to improve the process.
• Make operational teams to be more autonomous about leading their progress by increasing the teams’ skills in organizational change, project management, and employee engagement.
• Build digital tools and dashboards (OSiSoft Pi, MicroStrategy, Power Bi). that brings value for operational teams in getting results and eliminate wasted time and effort.
• Support Capital Projects as an integral team member in providing analysis to support optimized layout, flow, machine cycle, and staffing for new equipment and processes.
• Lead and support industry innovation initiatives that inspire such as Automatic Guided Vehicles, robotics, automation to simplify work, improve productivity and ergonomics, and reduce complexity.
• Additional responsibilities include facility workforce planning, productivity planning, machine capacity analysis, process effectiveness analysis, project management, expansion needs analysis, material flow analysis, developing and maintaining engineered time standards, value stream mapping, process flow and line balancing.

Benefits

• Personalized development plans
• mentorship
• cross-functional opportunities
• Unique career paths and opportunities for advancement
• Thrive in a diverse, supportive environment where your competencies, contributions and behaviors are recognized.
• Option to join one of our Connected Communities.
• Work on projects that matter—from sustainable materials to digital transformation.
• Be part of a company that does thế right. We use sustainable business practices while balancing the needs of our customers and communities.

What This Job Offers

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