Industrial Engineer in Shelbyville, Kentucky at Katayama American Company Llc

Job Summary

This position is responsible for analyzing operations, designing workflows and production processes, reducing inefficiency, and ensuring that final products meet the established quality and efficiency standards. An Industrial Engineer should be able to design and layout systems that maximize productivity, reduce wastefulness and production issues, are cost-efficient, and ensure high quality products.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Create/maintain material standards form, including routings and production information.
• Create and/or maintain plant layout, including area block diagram.
• Perform capacity studies as needed based on customer or sales information.
• Create/maintain detailed elemental time studies based on process concept or actual studies, including work combination table or equivalent and necessary changeover steps.
• Utilize time studies and work combination tables to implement manning improvements.
• Maintain work cell tracking database.
• Create/maintain Line Capacity forms that feature product and line information detailing weekly volumes and speeds.
• Countermeasure sheet creation and routing for trial/engineering change activity.

• Work with Engineers on new model launch for cell layout to include WIP, finished goods and location for support items in the work cell.
• Recommend methods for improving worker efficiency and reducing waste of materials and utilities such as restructuring job duties, reorganizing workflow, relocation of workstations and equipment, etc.

Skills

Education & Experience Required

This job description may be modified at any time to encompass additional responsibility for meeting the needs of KACI. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.