Senior Pre-Production Industrial Engineer
About The Position
BorgWarner Noblesville LLC is seeking a Senior Pre-production Industrial Engineer for their Kokomo, Indiana location. This is a hybrid position requiring the employee to work both from home and from the office, necessitating a reasonable commuting distance. The role involves facilitating global pre-production industrial engineering efforts for electric and electrification programs, developing long-term global manufacturing capacity models, and driving implementation to enhance excellence and productivity across global manufacturing sites. The engineer will also assist global cross-functional teams in designing and integrating lean manufacturing systems, implementing new model resources, equipment, and labor optimization, and guiding layout planning, virtual build events, and prototype builds. A key responsibility is formulating and updating the Manufacturing Readiness Plan (MRP) and introducing ergonomic job evaluation early in program stages, collaborating with product development teams to ensure design fixes. The role also includes acting as an advising Ergonomist, implementing Industrial Engineering knowledge management, preparing and conducting training, and facilitating sustainability initiatives by tracking energy efficiency improvement projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or in a related field
- 60 months of experience in job offered or industrial or manufacturing engineering position
- Experience with lean manufacturing principles, ergonomic workstation design, and capacity modeling
- Experience with cycle time studies, line balancing, and layout optimization using AutoCAD
- Experience collaborating and guiding multi-disciplined teams through a project
- Experience working with cross-functional and international teams
- Domestic and international travel, as needed, up to 10% is required
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Global Pre-Production Industrial Engineering efforts for electric and electrification programs
- Develop long-term global manufacturing capacity models and drive implementation to increase excellence and productivity throughout manufacturing sites across the globe
- Assist global cross-functional teams of manufacturing engineering, material handling and/or plant personnel to design and integrate new or expanded lean manufacturing systems into existing plant environments
- Implement new model resources equipment and labor optimization efforts to achieve lean targets through benchmarking, target setting, tracking process change, and replicate across programs
- Guide the layout planning process, virtual build events and the engineering prototype builds to validate the future model operator allocations and time studies, and work with plants to support physical build events & program launches
- Formulate and periodically update the Manufacturing Readiness Plan (MRP) for optimal utilization of facilities, equipment, and labor, aligned with global footprint strategy for the entire business unit
- Introduce ergonomic job evaluation at very early stages of the programs and collaborate with product development teams to make sure design fixes are found in future models
- Act as advising Ergonomist to assess and address ergonomic issues at various manufacturing sites, develop engineering solutions to enhance operator safety and efficiency, and ensure these improvements are integrated into ongoing program builds
- Implement the Industrial Engineering knowledge management across the business unit
- Prepare and conduct training for plant IEs for standard time measurement methodology, safe & ergonomic workstation design, and line balancing
- Facilitate the sustainability initiatives within the business unit
- Track the energy efficiency improvement projects across manufacturing plants
- Other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
