Industrial Engineer

Job Summary
 

The Industrial Engineer, Supply Chain is primarily responsible for partnering across SC Industrial Engineering, Operations, and other cross functional teams to focus on optimizing DC performance including productivity, accuracy, capacity, and efficiency. This role plays an integral part in identifying, evaluating, and implementing improvements and using creative problem-solving techniques to find ways to prevent waste and inefficiency in DC operations. Broader responsibilities include project management, business analysis, facility layout, product flow, and change management.  It will be critical for this Industrial Engineer to serve as a Leader for our organization: building trust within the Engineering Team, amongst cross functional project teams, and with project stakeholders. 

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Communicating Effectively - The ability to convey information clearly and accurately, as well as choosing the most effective method of delivery (e.g., email, phone, face-to-face).  This includes using a technically sound communication style both verbally and in writing.
• Solving Complex Problems - The ability to solve complex problems and make fact-based decisions. This includes using available information sources (e.g., business metrics, policies and procedures, coworkers) to make decisions. This includes the ability to recognize and escalate new problems as appropriate.
• Effective planning - The ability to prioritize work activities and to stay organized in one’s own work.  This also includes the ability to get things done with fewer resources and in less time.
• Building relationships - The ability to develop key relationships across cross-functional teams.  The ability relates well to a wide variety of people of diverse backgrounds, opinions, and experiences. This also includes skills in building diverse networks, quickly finding common ground, and being respectful of others.
• Engineering Economics – The ability to create and describe the concepts behind engineering economics, implications of financial data, and defining key measures of success.
• Ability to learn and become a steward of the business
• Superb organizational skills
• Ability to adapt and integrate new technology in a supply chain setting
• Customer focused and deliver results while putting the customer first
• Ability to adopt a broad perspective incorporating data, analytics, customer feedback, and business needs
• Resourceful and results-driven engineer in a highly dynamic environment

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and execute complex improvement projects to drive operational excellence that impacts the entire SC Distribution Network. This includes all aspects of the project management life cycle with support from engineering leadership as needed for larger projects.

• Manages designated work streams to meet customer and business needs by translating business plans into tactical action items; communicating goals and objectives; overseeing individual work assignments; aligning cross-functional team efforts; develop financial cost benefit analysis as part of project justification; track and report on post-project successes and impacts to the business to measure progress in achieving results and creating accountability; identifying and addressing process improvement opportunities; owning responsibility for decision making.

• Conducts data collection and analysis for various process improvement efforts to better understand business trends and make informed recommendations for improvement.

• Engage with the DC management team to keep apprised of issues and opportunities, lending the engineering perspective to guide and influence the Distribution Center towards the most ideal and strategic course of action.

• Supports facility layout design and ergonomic studies to increase productivity while maintaining safety.

• Supports larger scale projects and process improvements including Six Sigma Lean, Kaizen events, and rapid improvement events.

• Supports the development and execution of Labor Management Standards, as needed.
• Other tasks as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field (or equivalent work experience in industrial engineering field)
• Knowledge of AutoCAD, Excel, Power Point, and Access; experience in time and motion studies, working with engineered labor standards development or implementation
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Experience working in a Distribution Center environment and working with a warehouse management system preferred

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.