Entry - Level Industrial Engineer

Fort Worth, TX, United States

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Department: Engineering and Innovation

Location: Fort Worth, TX

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Position Description

The Industrial Engineer II role allows you to utilize your expert-level technical skills in a warehouse, omnichannel fulfillment, cross dock, packaging, and transportation environment. It allows you to utilize your proficiency in project management, Lean Six Sigma, facility layout and design, productivity tracking, and warehouse slotting skills to lead significant warehouse projects and strategic corporate initiatives.

Responsibilities

Support development, expand and manage the mission, vision and values of the corporate engineering team and apply these to his/her appointed engineering team.

Drive standardization in the engineering function and specifically slotting, handling and storage strategies, warehouse mechanization, robotization, labor management, productivity and benchmark reporting and analyses, in line with the governance of director of corporate engineering.

Work closely with other Saddle Creek teams in the designated operations such as site managers, operation cluster leadership, to support continuous improvement and business delivery within the operations.

Support solutions engineering with validation of new sales proposals that are projected for the designated operations.

Support operations leadership of the operations with small new business proposals (direct pricing) for new and scope changes of existing clients.

Works closely with other departments such as business delivery, LEAN, IS, and innovation on continuous improvement and business delivery projects.

Proactively provide new ideas and engineering related initiatives that support the designated operations and Saddle Creek in general.

Maintain, report, and review standardized management information and analyses to the leadership of the operations and the director of corporate engineering on program and project status. Assure timely delivery and agree upon priorities and corrective actions where required.

Maintain, report, and review standardized S&OP planning for field engineering team’s resource planning. Agree upon priorities where required.

Develop, maintain, and execute processes and tools to share best practices and learnings with operations, corporate engineering team and external stakeholders.

Develop and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and act as the Field engineering advocate on all levels of the designated operations.

Support other Saddle Creek initiatives as required.

Qualifications

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or related engineering discipline is required.

Minimum of 2+ years; warehouse operations /engineering experience.

Experience in continuous improvement disciplines of LEAN required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to travel up to 25% to support other facilities.

Excellent communicator and relationship builder

Ability to support, inspire and coach remote teams.

Demonstrates a commitment to supporting and driving operational process excellence.

Possesses critical thinking ability-analytical problem solving with significant amount of information.

Possesses creative thinking ability-dealing with imperfect information and ambiguity.

Displays a sense of urgency and a demonstrated ability in the areas of time management and adherence to deadlines.

Must have solid presentation and communication skills with the ability to persuade internal and external customers in relation to continuous improvement efforts.

Ability to influence, negotiate and resolve conflict to ensure buy-in and common goals.

Acts as team facilitator with strong technical skills and the ability to manage implementations.

Highly knowledgeable in modeling software and techniques including MS Excel and Access, and facility layout and design techniques utilizing AutoCAD or related software.

Knowledgeable in continuous improvements processes including Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, and A3.

Knowledgeable in WMS, WCS and WES

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Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, HSA and medical reimbursement

401(k) match

Vacation and holiday pay

Employee assistance and identity theft protection

Career development and opportunity for internal promotions

Tuition reimbursement for further education

Company paid life insurance and short term disability

Saddle Creek is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to applicants and existing associates and evaluate qualified candidates without regard to race, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, color, religious creed, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex (including pregnancy, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), mental or physical disability, medical condition, military and veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws, governmental regulations and executive orders. View the EEO poster here . View the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision here . View the E-Verify Posting here .

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About Us Saddle Creek is in the logistics business. Over the past 50 years, our associates built Saddle Creek into what it is today by treating each other with respect and working together to succeed. Our people make a difference every day to our clients, to our business, and to each other. The growth and success we’ve experienced requires smart, dedicated people working in a supportive environment.

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