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Industrial Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description
Job Title : Industrial Manufacturing Engineer
Customer : Pierce Manufacturing Inc.
Location : Appleton, WI 54914, United States
Visa Requirement : US Citizens / Green Card holders only
Key Skills Required
- Mandatory shop floor experience
- Time Study
- Line Balancing
- Continuous Improvement
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- Lean Manufacturing
Job Description & Skill Requirements
- Study assembly lines and manufacturing processes to identify improvement opportunities based on Lean principles.
- Perform detailed time studies and line balancing activities, including:
- Elemental breakdown
- Video-based time studies
- Analysis across all processes, stations, and operators
- VA / NVA / RNVA analysis
- Development of current-state line balancing
- Muri (overburden) analysis
- Develop Value Stream Maps (VSM), including:
- Current-state VSM to identify bottlenecks, waste, and inefficiencies
- Capacity analysis and baseline performance metrics
- Future-state VSM and gap analysis between current and future states
- Identify process and productivity improvement opportunities across the entire value stream and provide:
- Level 1, 2, and 3 improvement recommendations
- Detailed improvement roadmap and reports
- Develop and revise standard work instructions, including video-based work instructions.
- Conduct root cause analysis for quality issues, defects, and downtime; support corrective actions and Kaizen initiatives with detailed implementation plans.
- Support fixture design activities as per manufacturing and process requirements.