Consultant - Industrial Engineer

Manufacturing Industrial Engineering Consultant
Position Type: Independent Consultant (1099 or LLC)
Locations: Continental United States
Travel Required: 85100%
Industry: Automotive

Our consultants are industry experts providing tactical operational wins to OEMs and T1 Suppliers via extensive industry knowledge critical thinking and problemsolving abilities and a passion for making handson changes to warehouse and production floors rapidly.

• Analyze and assess manufacturing processes at company workstations recommending essential process improvements with lean practices to optimize workflow and increase overall efficiency Uptime Performance and Quality.
  
• Create specifications for various components and assembly steps determining production benchmarks and optimizing manufacturing efficiency reliability through input.
  
• Operate fully as independent technology suppliers providing the detailed specifications for plant and equipment.
  
• Run sample requests provided by R&D to investigate analyze and develop innovative product solutions.
  
• Develop support and improve workstation design and layout to positively impact ergonomics material flow and productivity.
  
• Performs root cause analysis and conduct brainstorming sessions with responsible teams; investigate the process machine or equipment; implements counter measures/corrective and preventive actions and training to any internal or external quality and safety concerns.
  
• Auditing manufacturing cells/lines on a weekly basis to ensure all production processes follow standard operating procedure laid out through Layered Process Audit.
  
• Initiate and implement Process Change Requests (PCRs) to improve manufacturability and quality performance.
  
• Participating in weekly safety audits to assess new or unidentified safety concerns and risks.
  
• Participate in safety incident investigations as required.
  
• Responsible for implementing all process and equipment with stateoftheart technologies to ensure all products are manufactured and assembled with highest quality to meet customer demands.
  
• Providing weekly project status updates to management identifying potential risks and opportunities.
  
• Assists maintenance and operations team with troubleshooting process and equipment related issues.
  
• Mentor and guide less experienced team members in technical excellence procedures and best practices.
  
• Alignment with crossfunctional project team.
  
• Initiating and implementing process improvements through innovative creative ideas.
  
• Develops maintains and reviews concepts with suppliers and customers.
  
• Monitors implementation of corrective action plans
  
• Coordinates the efforts of crossfunctional groups and across shifts to resolve bottlenecks parts shortages machine maintenance manpower issues and production capacity.
  

Requirements

• 10 years of Manufacturing Industrial Engineering in Automotive Aerospace or other related industries.
  
• Bachelor s degree in Industrial Engineering Operations or other related fields.
  
• CAD experience required.
  
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and ability to communicate effectively with client customers at all organizational levels.
  
• Strong oral and written communication and documentation skills including presentation skills (MS Excel MS Visio MS PowerPoint etc.)
  
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
  
• Experience leading small teams or delivering projects or programs.
  
• Experience prioritizing tasks and managing assignments in a collaborative team environment.
  
• Previous Consulting Experience Preferred
  
  

Benefits

• Hourly Wage When on Assignment
  
• Travel Days comped at 50% Hourly Rate
  
• OverTime: 1.5x After 40 hrs/wk
  
• DoubleTime: On Holidays/Sundays
  
• Meal Per Diem Pay
  
• Travel Expense Reimbursement
  
• Wages and Expenses Paid Monthly
  
• Intellectually stimulating engagements driving P&L results for OEMs and T1s throughout the USA
  
• WellEstablished:
  
• First project deployed in 2001
  
• Over 1000 Completed Projects
  
• 250 Clients
  
• Global Footprint: Servicing 28 countries
  

Quality Logistics & Production Crisis Management / Critical Situations Cost Reduction HR Services