Senior Industrial Engineer - Supply Chain

Nordstrom•Riverside, CA

22h

About The Position

The Senior Industrial Engineer I applies technical methods and discipline, and provides business and customer expertise, to recommend and devise efficient systems that integrate workers, machines, materials, and information to deliver a moderate/complex product, process, or system. This person will partner with Supply Chain Operations leadership and associates within fulfillment centers (FCs) and Distribution Centers (DCs) and should have industry intelligence to provide creative solutions for process improvement and automation to further simplify work flows and operations.

Requirements

5+ years’ Industrial Engineering experience, including and/or addition of 3+ years’ experience within a Supply Chain Distribution/Fulfillment (e-Com) environment
Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or Industrial and Systems Engineering
Experienced in building strong relationships with business partners
Proven track record of successfully achieving priorities and accomplishing objectives

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain or equivalent preferred
AutoCAD, Simulation, and SQL query experience highly desired

Responsibilities

Collects data and performs complex data analysis to understand current state conditions that will be used to drive continuous improvement ideas, capacity analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and change initiatives and projects
Advanced use of continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) to optimize, lead, and provide supply chain solutions for current and future operations for medium to large (<$500k) scope projects
Performs time and motion studies, has experience with predetermined time systems (e.g., MOST, MSD, MTM), indirect time, & PF&D.
Detects gaps between observed time and labor standards, and develops key insights to improve productivity.
Mentors engineers up pyramid.
Champions and leads Standard Work efforts in collaboration with operations and continuous improvement teams
Has knowledge of distribution and fulfillment best practices and engineering standards. Leverages best practices and engineering standards in the development and deployment of solutions
Creates and delivers AutoCAD layouts for complex space planning and process design improvements
Moderately versed in new technology solutions for material handling and systems
Ideation of alternatives for process, equipment, and system design to optimize end-to-end solutions
Performs benchmark studies, builds business cases, and recommends new solutions/technologies
Creates requirements that form cohesive plans
Expert level understanding of how to work with technical documentation including architectural, mechanical, electrical and software, to assess designs and issues as required, with minimal guidance from manager
Works with operations, product management, and other business partners to deliver data driven solutions
Strong project management skills with focus on implementation of high impact, high complexity solutions