Process Engineer
This position is responsible for designing, analyzing, and implementing warehouse processes and systems to increase operational efficiency, improve safety and quality, optimize capacity and material flow, and reduce operating cost. The Process Engineer will support plant leadership with operations planning, continuous improvement, process problem resolution, and implementation of new or changing processes and technologies.
Essential Functions
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Manage process improvement projects and coordinate with key project stakeholders across Operations, Business Development, Finance, Quality, Safety, and Engineering.
- Analyze warehouse processes, layouts, material flow, SKU characteristics, workforce utilization, and equipment utilization to identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, service, capacity, and cost.
- Develop and maintain warehouse layouts, process maps, capacity models, and future-state designs using AutoCAD and other applicable engineering tools.
- Evaluate SKU velocity, storage requirements, travel patterns, slotting, staging, and material flow to optimize space utilization and reduce non-value-added movement.
- Identify and establish key Supply Chain and operational performance indicators (KPI's) to measure process performance and support continuous improvement.
- Review and define process, system, and operational requirements for new or changing processes, customer requirements, equipment, and warehouse technology.
- Lead implementation activities for new or changing processes, layouts, systems, and material-handling solutions, including pilot testing, training, and implementation follow-up.
- Build stakeholder alignment, communicate process changes, and support adoption to ensure sustained results.
- Apply Lean, continuous improvement, statistical, and mathematical methods to determine process requirements, staffing needs, productivity standards, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop business cases and ROI analyses for process changes, labor savings, material-handling improvements, and automation initiatives.
- Partner with Operations and Engineering teams on WMS, slotting, simulation, material-handling, and automation projects to ensure solutions support operational requirements.
- Provide training, resources, standard work, documentation, and implementation support for new or improved processes and systems.
- Coordinate quality and operational improvement activities to resolve process problems, maximize service reliability, improve customer performance, and minimize cost.
Competencies
- Technical capacity
- Communication proficiency
- Problem solving/analysis
- Decision making
- Initiative
- Results-driven
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Project management skills
- Collaboration skills
- Teamwork orientation
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may occasionally be required to lift 51 pounds, anything over this, an employee needs to request assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
This job is performed in a busy warehouse environment with high forklift traffic. Warehouses are subject to seasonal temperatures. Steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, and vests are required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
Full Time, Exempt. Schedule flexibility for extended or unplanned work hours is required.
Travel
Travel between locations may be required.
Education and Experience
- · A bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a related field is required
- 2-5 years of experience in Industrial Engineering, Process Engineering, Warehouse Operations Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering, or related continuous improvement roles.
- Experience developing warehouse layouts using AutoCAD or similar design software.
- Advanced analytical skills with Excel required; experience with Power BI, SQL, or other reporting and visualization tools preferred.
- Experience developing labor standards, staffing models, productivity metrics, engineered labor standards, or workforce planning tools preferred.
- Experience conducting time studies, labor analysis, work measurement, or engineered labor standard activities.
- Experience managing cross-functional projects, coordinating stakeholders, and supporting change adoption and implementation preferred.
- Warehouse Management System (WMS) or equivalent inventory software experience preferred
- Experience with warehouse slotting, simulation, data analysis, material handling, or automation projects preferred
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
As an EEO employer, TVS SCS NA is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture. The TVS SCS NA team does not discriminate against candidates and employees because of their disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law within any employment practices. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants; please contact [Hope Molyneaux, JMolyneaux@tvsscs.com] to request a reasonable accommodation. The employee selected for this role must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily, and if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.
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