Industrial Engineering Manager

The Plant Industrial Engineering Manager is responsible for managing and leading the plant's industrial engineering department. The Industrial Engineering Manager will interact with management to develop hourly and salary staffing, business plans, and lead actions to achieve productivity objectives, including daily, weekly, and monthly business reports. This selected individual will interact daily with production management and union leadership about all matters relating to staffing requirements. This role also supports the development of direct, indirect, and salary staffing for model year specific budgets, working with both manufacturing engineering and central industrial engineering. The selected individual will support all aspects of Stellantis Production Way (SPW), especially the workplace organization pillar, which includes value and nonvalue analysis, workstation optimization, and waste elimination while supporting the logistics pillar to develop factory flow analysis and material/parts logistic. The Industrial Engineering Manager provides guidance and knowledge to develop efficient manufacturing processes and workforce for advance programs.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Hiring, Training and Development of IE's
• Lead and manage IE department
• Generate improvements based on data analysis utilizing various tools
• Kaizen's
• SMED's
• Micro stoppage reduction
• Downtime reduction
• Labor utilization
• Throughput (OLE) Improvement
• Responsible for all IE related activities in support of Plant Operations
• Maintain correct Man assignments for all operations
• Maintain and track correct hourly and salary manning levels
• Advise Plant Senior Leadership on status of hourly and salary manpower needs
• Submit hiring requests as required
• Liaise with Corporate Industrial Engineering
• Conduct PCS (Product Cost Study) once per calendar year
• Conduct special studies as requested by Plant Manager
• Submit reports as required on a timely basis
• EHPU
• Manpower Allocations
• Work with corresponding SPW Pillar Leads
• SPW tools and methodologies are followed as part of everyday work

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• A minimum of EIGHT (8) years of Industrial Engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated experience with time and motion studies, development of standardized work, manpower estimation, and standard data
• Must understand assembly manufacturing systems and demonstrate the ability to apply throughput management process techniques and assess equipment capacity
• Previous supervisor or managerial experience is required
• Data collection, root cause analysis, and practical problem-solving skills are essential
• Understanding of LEAN manufacturing and Stellantis Production Way (SPW) principles is necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering