Industrial Engineer

Position Summary

The Industrial Engineer develops accurate competitive costs per unit to maximize the use and the return on all our resources, meeting the needs of our Customer, our Company and our People.

The Industrial Engineer will operate within the outline defined by the Crescent Way’s 3 P’s:

• Purpose
• Process
• People

While building on our Values to:

• Do it Right
• Do it Safe
• Do it Well

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

 Safety

1. Read and understand the Crescent Safety Playbook – Doing It Safe.
2. Actively consider safety practices while constructing line drawings for projects.
3. Consider feedback from the production floor regarding safety and perform time studies/line drawing adjustments as needed.

Quality 

1. Attend weekly Quality New Build Review meetings. Facilitate and provide callouts to production and quality teams.
2. Communicate changes to packaging when discussed with the customer’s engineers.
3. Work with the customer and Crescent People in order to improve quality metrics.
4. Sustain and drive Lean Manufacturing and 5S activities driving Quality CI initiatives.

 Productivity

1. Perform time studies on items that are not performing to standard.
2. Champion the Crescent Culture of Doing it Right, Doing it Safe and Doing it Well and abide by all written and understood policies and procedures.
3. Identify, drive, and support all Continuous Improvement (CI) efforts.
4. Work with Crescent People to improve bottlenecks on production lines

 People

1. Participate in new build startups to help Crescent People succeed.
2. Communicate with Crescent People to help build a plan that sets the team up for success.
3. Promote a Work Environment where Crescent People are valued and can safely communicate, grow and develop.

Customer Value

1. Manage customer relationships, reporting and communication to ensure customers are well informed with Crescent performance, challenges and CI initiatives.

Financial

1. Perform time studies when items are not running to standard
2. Improve organizational efficiency and waste reduction
3. Analyze lean practices to improve productivity
4. Manage the correct use of all material and supplies.

All other duties as assigned, including but not limited to identifying and training an individual capable of successfully completing all stated Essential Duties and Responsibilities as appropriate to maintain integrity of position for progression planning and coverage during times of absence.

Cultural Competencies

Do It Right

Doing what is right for our customers, doing what is right for our company and doing what is right for our People. Continually improving the quality of our products and services. Monitoring and measuring every key ingredient which could negatively impact our quality. Doing it Right ensures we are always becoming a Premier Service Provider.

• Identifies and counters resistance to change
• Advocates continuous improvement
• Forges teams and provides direction
• Provides constructive performance feedback
• Willingly adjusts the make-up of the team
• Plans, delegates, and follows up
• Guides others to improve collaboration
• Entrepreneurial initiative

 Do It Safe

Creating a safe environment and supporting our People to reach their highest potential. A safe environment where all forms of risk are assessed and controlled. A safe environment open to new ideas, where our people’s opinions and overall well-being count. A diverse environment where everyone fits and can be successful.

• Self-assured yet humble
• Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker and listener
• Patient
• Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontation
• Solution vs. blame oriented
• Mixture of firmness and flexibility
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Holds self and others accountable
• Willing to take calculated risks

 Do It Well

Optimizing all our resources to efficiently and effectively perform all tasks well. Our overall productivity as a company is a reflection of the thousands of activities performed well each and every day by everyone.  At Crescent, our ability to Do it Well is a real source of pride valued by our customers.

• Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
• Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
• Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not
• Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
• Maintains sense of urgency
• Follows up to ensure quality task completion
• Disciplined Self Starter

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Fast paced environment, requiring adaptability to constant changes in schedules, volumes, staffing and shift requirements.
• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Management Reasoning and Organizational Skills

• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Information processing
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Time management

Systems Usage

• Nulogy
• Microsoft Office Tools (Excel. Word, PowerPoint)
• Visio
• Sharepoint
• Netsuite
• Customer Specific (SAP)

Performance Metrics and Trends

• Safety
• Quality
• Productivity
• People
• Customer Value
• Financial

Qualifications

 Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or related Field
• Experience with ERP/MRP Systems
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Ability to communicate effectively through oral and written communication

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean manufacturing and Continuous Improvement (CI) Experience
• Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma

We will absolutely know the Industrial Engineer is successful if they can:

• Successfully perform time studies
• Showcase a strong rapport with the customers business account manager and packaging engineers
• Prove to be a strong asset to the CI Team