Sr Industrial Engineer

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

1d•$72,800 - $130,000•Remote

About The Position

The Sr Industrial Engineer understands the principles of statistical quality control, innovative ways to understand business intelligence, basic project management skills, and leading organizational change. You will bring your working knowledge of time studies, processing mapping, statistical modeling, and inferential statistics. You will get to help grow and develop our process engineering team into industry leaders in the healthcare field.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; degree preferred in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering or Engineering/Mathematics
5+ years of experience in applying industrial Engineering fundamentals including time and motion studies (stopwatch or fixed motion)
3+ years of experience with documenting processes, process mapping, creating and deploying process documentation standards, and process documentation governance procedures
3+ years of experience applying statistical methods
Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree or MBA
Experience in Agile
Experience with capacity planning
Experience managing multiple, simultaneous projects
Experience with data mining methods, statistical modeling, and optimization techniques
Experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals in a service industry
Experience as a change agent with demonstrated transformations in the process engineering domain
Excellent communication, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

Responsibilities

Lead end‑to‑end business process management activities, including reviewing, designing, controlling, and continuously improving operational processes.
Drive customer readiness and implementation efforts by leading cross‑functional project teams; diagnose process improvement opportunities and develop solutions using process excellence, industrial engineering, Six Sigma, and related methodologies.
Apply industrial engineering fundamentals, advanced statistical modeling, and emerging technologies to develop practical, data‑driven solutions that improve efficiency, quality, and scalability.
Partner with leadership to define project strategies, develop project plans, and perform cost‑benefit analyses to ensure successful execution of process improvement initiatives.
Provide analytical support to define business requirements, functional specifications, design criteria, and testing approaches for process, technical, and analytical projects.
Serve as a subject‑matter expert on productivity measurement, including standard time development, work studies, work sampling, and performance measurement methodologies.
Use statistical and quantitative methods to evaluate account‑level operational performance, forecast demand, and determine staffing and capacity requirements.
Analyze and improve workflows by evaluating process maps and flowcharts, identifying inefficiencies, and recommending enhancements to workflows, procedures, technology, and tools.
Demonstrate working knowledge of statistical quality control, business intelligence concepts, and basic project management, and actively support organizational change initiatives.