Description
Industrial Engineer/Workforce Data Analyst/Time and Motion/Manufacturing Engineer/Production Engineer
My client who is a major competitor in the UK Home Improvement and building trade are currently looking for an Industrial Engineer to join their growing team. You will need to be a good communicator who can work well either alone or in a team. A head for logistics and statistics are needed for this busy role with the abillity to be able to travel as an when needed so a driving licence is a must.
The outputs of this job enable control of Logistics labour budget (£8m) and projects should generate savings/maintain benefits in excess of £100k
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Develop, document and maintain warehouse procedures ensuring process efficiency. This impacts on methods layout equipment and organisation.
- Design, configure and maintain the WFM system to reflect current warehouse practice. This will be reflected in accurate performance information.
- Extend the use of WFM functionality to maximise its benefit to the business.
- Design and produce a variety of reports to enable the warehouse teams to identify and resolve individual and warehouse performance issues. Actively monitor performance of staff and standards across the 3 sites identifying and advising what corrective action is required and working with the local team to enable them to achieve the required result.
- Support the warehouse continuous improvement activity by promoting opportunities and collaborating with the warehouse in developing new ways of working.
- Undertake IE projects and support warehouse activity
- Create and maintain support data for warehouse labour models ensuring the use of data by the planning team is appropriate.
- Develop colleagues
HARDEST PART OF YOUR JOB
- Understanding the opportunities for improvement and integrating them within the business
- Technical understanding of WFM, CLASS, Tectime
- Influencing change of processes and procedures to the Management and Workforce
WORK EXAMPLES
- Implementation of WFM
- Determined methods and procedures to set up Small Parts Picking.
- Worked with IS to develop the methods and procedures for voice picking and to inprove processes and layout.
- Implemented a program of procedural checks, carried out by Group Leaders then verified by Shift Managers, to ensure agreement and compliance to Standard Operating Procedures; utilising SharePoint Calendars aand consulting meetings.
- Developed work methods & instructions to implement conveyer unloading.
- Configure CLASS models to enable warehouse reorganisation.