Manager Industrial Engineering (remote - NE region

Manager Industrial Engineering (Remote - NE Region)

We are immediately hiring a remote Manager Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement in the Northeast region for our Supply Chain Solutions division. This position supports the Ryder Continuous Improvement culture across the business unit by actively promoting and facilitating the use of continuous improvement methods to support new and existing operations. The manager will manage the CI resources across multiple operations to influence, drive, and manage change through data driven CI, Engineering, and Automation efforts to deliver higher levels of performance in safety, quality, delivery, cost and growth.

Effectively leverage data analytics, engineering methodologies, and all Ryder lean tools to enable root cause identification and elimination. This high influence position will interface with employees at all levels and functions across the business. This position reports to the CI Director or Sr. CI Manager and is closely aligned with a Director of Operations.

Essential functions include supervising a team of continuous improvement engineering and quality professionals, leading the development and execution of strategy, score carding and key performance indicator action plans, providing training, coaching, and mentoring, developing advanced competency in a wide range of engineering methods, data analysis, Lean tools, and quality standards, and facilitating and executing value stream maps & Kaizen events.

Additional responsibilities include managing the design, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of the QMS, implementing and monitoring a standardized corrective action system, supporting regulatory compliance and certification requirements, overseeing all functions related to quality assurance for a start-up or expansion, and overseeing internal auditing to ensure regulatory compliance and certification.

Skills and abilities

include effective interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization, ability to work independently and as a member of a team, flexibility to operate and self-driven to excel in a fast-paced environment, capability of multi-tasking, highly organized, with excellent time management skills, builds, manages and develops effective teams, system and change implementation skills, ability to manage multiple cross-functional and complex CI projects from beginning to sustained results, Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint & Visio expert required, data visualization (PowerBI, Tableau) and database programming (SQL, DAX, etc.)

intermediate preferred, expertise in developing and managing:
Leader Standard Work, Visual Management Systems and Management Accountability Systems, Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, 5S/Workplace Organization advanced required, understanding and experience in core engineering and data analysis functions (slotting, utilization, labor planning, layouts, metrics, etc.) expert required, warehouse design tools such as CAD (e.g. AutoCAD); slotting (e.g. Slot3D), Predetermined Motion and Time Systems and methods (e.g. MOST);
Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Manhattan Scale), and Labor Mgt. Systems. expert preferred, knowledge of Warehouse Management operations, data analytics, Industrial Engineering, warehouse types (ambient, temp control, warehouse layout/ design and Lean methods. Knowledge of material handling solutions and automation types such as: powered industrial truck (PIT) applications; racking and other storage solution designs, packaging equipment; conveyor and sortation equipment; and other automation solutions (e.g. AS/RS).

expert preferred, knowledge of Dedicated Services and Managed Transportation Networks. Knowledge of all available equipment types such as; dry van, temperature control, flat bed, other specialized equipment. Transportation Design Tools ie; JDA, Appian, Network Design Tools ie;
Llamasoft, Transportation Management Systems ie; JDA, OTM,, Mapping Software ie;
Tableau. expert preferred, knowledge…