Senior Industrial Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Industrial Engineer at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.  In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and project planning for continuous improvement projects within Operations by designing processes, tools or systems that reflect knowledge of lean manufacturing and engineering principles.

Essential Functions

• Serves in a technical leadership capacity and unites cross functional teams to produce innovative solutions for continuous improvement within Operations
• Coaches and designs processes, tools or systems utilizing and applying knowledge of lean manufacturing and engineering principles
• Prepares meaningful and actionable metrics, flow charts and diagrams as needed
• Manages basic tradeoffs and determine basic risk associated with mitigation plans
• Completes complex analyses to predict possible quality trends and implement mitigation with little guidance
• Evaluates, recommends, and helps to implement staffing models to efficiently accommodate changing demand and processes
• Accurately predicts time needed to complete tasks at hand
• Makes substantial contributions toward determination of project goal/objective feasibility
• Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced Industrial Engineers (1 & 2)
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new processes and technologies
• Independently determines general approach and specific solutions to technical problems; works proactive and effectively with minimal supervision
• Demonstrates good judgment in setting schedules/risk taking
• Offers many suggestions to improves processes and authors new procedures as appropriate
• Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Process Engineering, or related engineering field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated familiarity with detailed warehouse, manufacturing or service processes
• Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment 

Desired Qualifications

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits