Corporate KPS Industrial Engineer
Kasai North America
- Murfreesboro, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Participate in QC story activities across North American facilities.
- Identify waste and eliminate non-value added work from the process or policies.
- Develop policy and improvement standards across North American KASAI facilities.
- Serve as a key communications facilitator, trainer, coach, and counselor for KPS Coordinators.
- Conduct KPS principle training courses with all members of the organization.
- Manage and communicate information from plant KPS Coordinators to VP of operations and vice versa.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Provide technical support to clients through activities such as rearranging workplace fixtures to reduce physical hazards or discomfort or modifying task sequences to reduce cycle time.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Authorities for an employee are granted by means of work instructions, policies and procedures and/or direction provided by management to meet the requirements of the customer
- BSIE, BSME or Engineering Technology.
- 1-5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment with an emphasis on continuous improvement.
- Specialized skills in methods engineering and work measurement.
- High level of engineering problem solving skills (DMAIC concept preferred) required.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to train people and provide leadership in a team environment.
- Strong understanding of lean manufacturing principles
- Strong computer skills required in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Power Point.
- Able to work all shifts as necessary and the flexibility to work split shifts if required
- Able to travel 50% of the time