Sr Industrial Engineer

Title: Sr Industrial Engineer

               

Location: Twin Falls, ID

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Primarily responsible for LOC Continuous Improvement activities and savings attainment for the Twin Falls Production Facility. Incumbent will need to be highly passionate and engaging, exhibit solid leadership skills, possess very strong industrial engineering and lean 6 sigma capabilities and be a teacher of Zero Loss thinking. Incumbent will interface closely with the Safety, Quality, Finance, Engineering and Production departments at both the Facility and Corporate Offices.

Job Description

Primary Activities and Responsibilities: 

• Provide leadership and direction ensuring a robust continuous improvement environment
  • Provide leadership for local activities focused on improving both the effectiveness and/or efficiency of operations
  • Provide tracking and reporting functions to support both the Facility and Corporate requirements
  • Will service Facility as LOC Focused Improvement Pillar Lead working with the other LOC pillars to develop a TPM based, high performance operation
• Provide technical skills and tools to facilitate sustainable continuous improvement activities
  • Maintain a full understanding and communicate a Zero Loss Process approach
  • Retain and utilize statistical methodologies to support data driven decision making
  • Provides education and direction on Lean Manufacturing Processes (Elimination of Waste) to all personnel at the Facility
    • Support effective and sustainable 5S programs
    • Support effective 8 step FI process
    • Understands and supports 6 sigma processes, using the DMAIC problem solving methodology
    • Support effective Kaizen Event methodology
    • Support effective Value Added analysis techniques
    • Promotes the use of Simple Root Cause Analysis through becoming the on-site expert, teaching/coaching others and encouraging use
    • Can create/maintain documented process maps with capabilities/realities
• Retains a full understanding and working knowledge of key Lamb Weston Processes & Systems
  • Bill of Materials System
  • Unit Cost System
  • Manifest System
  • Minitab Statistical Software
  • SAP
  • Capital Approval Process
• Support the Plant Capital Program
  • Provide Savings Analysis for all projects generating cost reduction
  • Provide guidance and support for facility Capital Planning process
  • Provide Industrial Engineering techniques to project design for effective and efficient labor utilization
  • Provide Industrial Engineering techniques to project design for mitigation of all human / ergo safety risks
• Support/Lead other processes to include:
  • Journey Mapping, all pillars
  • Budgeting
  • Plant PIT savings, Inflationary offset, Conversion Cost  commitments etc.  Serves as the PIT mentor for Team Leaders
    • Oversees effective execution of T-Card processes
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