Industrial Engineering Technician (Finance)
Job Description:
Industrial Engineering Technician
The Industrial Engineering Technician is responsible for working with the Value Stream Manager and Industrial Engineering manager to formalize and develop the loss elimination strategy in the value stream. The role identifies, captures and highlights data to define areas which require optimization in order to make the process stream enhance its safety, productivity and efficiency to deliver a quality product. The IE ensures the value stream has a clear roadmap for success over time, challenges the standards to deliver increased value and support the cost savings journey for the business unit connect with the Mars Wrigley supply strategy.
What are we looking for?
Candidate must have ONE of the following:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Applied Science, Math (Statistics), Finance, Supply, Business Management or a related technical field
- OR 2-year technical degree AND 2+ years of relevant experience
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power BI
- User of Microsoft software including: Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with Tableau or similar modeling and database skills
- Superior written and oral communication skills
- Ability to interact and influence all organizational levels; open to change and input from diverse workforce
- Comfortable in dealing with ambiguity
- 2+ years of manufacturing experience
- Experience working in Continuous Improvement / Lean Manufacturing / TPM environment
- Good working knowledge of cost-vs.-benefit analysis (e.g. IRR, payback period)
- Experience with Lean tools such as 5S, SMED, Standard Work.
- Knowledgeable with Root Cause Analysis tools such as 5-Why, Fishbone Analysis
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Track KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), perform trend analysis, and communicate performance against targets
- Support Activity Management (Project Management) process and act as "voice of site" for new activities
- Conduct capability and capacity analysis for production lines and lead bottleneck analysis
- Optimize labor efficiency/staffing standards
- Leverage regional and global benchmarking to identify areas for improvement
- Lead/participate in/coach loss analysis and Continuous Improvement activities in journey to zero loss (FI Pillar of TPM)
- Performs regular rate reviews of product lines and owns rate strategy
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
- [Insert any additional market/role specific benefits that the candidate might be interested in]
Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site.
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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
