Job Description
As a Senior Process Engineer with the Supply Chain team, you will develop, implement, and maintain fair, reasonable, and attainable engineered labor standards across Distribution Center operations. They observe DC workflows to define optimal processes and preferred methods, then document via clear and effective SOPs. Senior Engineers conduct time studies to measure and validate direct labor functions, analyze data, and communicate findings and process recommendations to Operations leadership. In support of incentive and accountability programs, they evaluate labor reporting and employee performance to ensure accurate and consistent standards application. Senior Engineers educate DC Operations teams to promote understanding, alignment, and sustained adoption of labor standards. They collaborate closely with DC Operations and cross-functional partners to identify improvement opportunities, develop operational strategies, and resolve process and/or training gaps. Additionally, they assess DC capacity requirements and constraints and, when needed, provide innovative, data-driven network optimization recommendations. Approximately 50% travel required to DCs.
This role is on site, which means you would be required to work on site at the Best Buy location listed on the job posting. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What you'll do
This role is on site, which means you would be required to work on site at the Best Buy location listed on the job posting. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What you'll do
- Engineered Labor Standards: Ensure a fair and reasonable labor standard by performing time studies, analyzing results, and troubleshooting, when necessary. Summarize findings to Corp and DC leadership, provide process gaps and insights, and recommendations to solve.
- Educate & Coach: Train DC Operations "what is" and "how to leverage" engineered labor standards, including methods observations, providing feedback, incentive and accountability impacts, etc.
- Tools & Software: Maintain accuracy of DC layouts including XYZ coordinates via AutoCAD and WMS. Maintenance of ELS flowcharts and standard data via StandardsPro or other software solution. Time studies, work samples, and data captured via UMT plus.
- Capacity Planning: Analyze DC network capacity needs and provide recommendations collaborating with DC Operations teams. Utilize data-driven approaches to model facility operations, forecast capacity, and simulate process changes to provide innovative solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Observe and improve warehouse processes and workflows to enhance throughput, reduce costs, and improve service levels. Provide recommendations to create or improve operational policies, procedures or systems.
- Reporting: Utilize reporting such as SCI, Red Prairie, and Power BI Dashboards to identify opportunities in direct labor performance and utilization. Work cross-functionally to improve DC Operations metrics.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or any Quantitive Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lancaster, Texas |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1966 |
| Website | http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/ |
About Company
Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.
That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?
You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.
Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.
When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.
So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.
Skills
- AutoCADunmatched
- Capacity Analysisunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)unmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Networksunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Distributed Control Systems (DCS)unmatched
- Distribution Operationsunmatched
- Distribution Servicesunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Improvement Metricsunmatched
- Incentive Programsunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Network Performance/Analysisunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Operations Processesunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Policy Developmentunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
- Procedure Developmentunmatched
- Process Engineeringunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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