Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.
Position Description:
The Industrial Engineer is a key role in our global distribution operations by collaborating closely with leadership and teams to enhance supply chain performance and productivity. The role is instrumental in designing and implementing standard lean operating procedures across the extensive network, including last mile delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate new and existing operational layouts and propose racking alternatives that support facility stocking plans and optimize units per square foot
- Evaluate current operational processes and develop dynamic labor standards that normalize UPH performance against the different building setups.
- Lead the development and delivery of training to support the rollout and continuous optimization of these standards.
- Perform frequent audits of standard operating procedures to ensure accuracy and appropriate best practices captured.
- Perform root cause analysis of performance and process variations across sites. Provide performance bridge
- Propose operational process alternatives with appropriate cost/benefit analysis
- Perform time and motion studies to validate proposed changes against operational key performance indicators
- Collaborate across multiple internal departments to scale and implement continuous improvement ideas
- Support Labor Incentive Programs by analyzing data to support calibration and adjustments to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and incentive (pay-for-performance) targets.
Competencies
- Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Adaptive Mindset - Adapts existing tools and techniques to existing situation~Adapts to changing goals / objectives~Entrepreneurial spirit~Focuses on simplicity when addressing the customer
- Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Business Requirements Analysis - Ability to express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach; Analysis Skills, Determine acceptance and evaluation criteria, Focus groups, Observation, Prioritization, SWOT analysis, requirements analysis software
- Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc)
- Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Engineering Design - The ability and skill to apply appropriate method, tools, processes and software to execute engineering design activities.
- Engineering Implementation - The ability and skill to implement, evaluate and refine engineering design outcomes.
- Engineering Standards and Compliance - Ability to ensure adherence to engineering standards and compliance within interdisciplinary engineering projects. This involves understanding and implementing relevant regulations, codes, and standards applicable to engineering practices.
- Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
- Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Performance Improvement - Analysis skills~Observation~Process Analysis
- Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
- Review and Reporting - The ability and skill to create reports, and review reports created by others, for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports.
- Risk Management - The ability and skill to identify, assess, prioritize and manage risks and use with proficiency aligned software
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent working experience
- 5-7 years of relative working experience
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Applications
- Effective at Facility Design software (AutoCAD or comparable)
- Knowledgeable in Facility Design standards
- Working knowledge of SQL Server and/or Python.
Skills
- Adaptive Mindset
- Communicates Effectively
- Decision Quality
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Ensures Accountability
- Manages Complexity
- Nimble Learning
- Plans & Aligns
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Performance Improvement
- Review and Reporting
- Situational Adaptability
- Engineering Standards and Compliance
- Engineering Implementation
- Collaboration
- Business Requirements Analysis
- Engineering Design
- Risk Management
Physical Demands/Working Conditions
Physical Demands Category: Office
Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: As required by the position. Expected around 50%.
Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.
Build a challenging and rewarding career with us!
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