Job description

Industrial Engineer

About Your New Employer

My client is at the forefront of the medical device industry. This company boasts an incredible culture of work, coupled with an ever-evolving industry, means that there is always room for professional and personal growth. 

Each individual member of the team is vital and your contribution on a daily basis assists with the betterment of mankind as a whole. Commitment, determination and work ethic are the cornerstones of the company's ethos.

About Your New Job

• You must support advancement of lean manufacturing principles and practices across the plant.
• You must provide technical support and project management support to manufacturing teams to initiate and sustain Kaizen/ continuous improvement.
• You must mentor lean champions to support lean initiatives across production units.
• You must provide training and ongoing support on existing lean "tool kit", refining and improving these tools and introducing new ones where necessary.
• You must promote, educate, and instil a culture of identification and elimination of waste throughout the plant within manufacturing areas.
• You must identify improvement opportunities and initiate project teams and plans to address, provide support, direction and facilitate the removal of barriers to ensure successful outcomes.
• You must generate and maintain data for managing business, such as method studies, time and motion studies, and work content graphs.
• You must maintain a database of lean projects with associated targets and metrics to be used to prioritise critical tasks based on the impact on VOP.
• You must ensure lean activities and projects are linked such that the entire value stream is addressed and maximum benefit is extracted from Lean activities.
• You must review requests for changes to facility layouts and proposing summary options for review/ approval.
• You must support the strategic space plan by keeping layouts current.
• You must demonstrate good working knowledge of industrial engineering tools & practices and using this knowledge and expertise to continually drive improvement in process/equipment design, layout and operational performance.
• You must maintain an up to date database of standard times, populated IE tools and core metrics for the area of responsibility.

What Skills You Need

• You must have a level 8 degree in a relevant discipline 
• You must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
• You must have good technical capabilities, communication skills, teamwork abilities and initiative.
• You must have a proven ability to work well as part of a team & on own with minimum supervision.
• You must have good technical capabilities, communication skills, teamwork abilities and initiative.

What’s on Offer

• Meaningful career progression
• Excellent working-life balance
• Flexitime
• Healthcare
• Pension scheme

What’s Next

Apply now by clicking the “Apply Now" button or call me, Dominic King on +353 91 455309 or email: dking@sigmar.ie

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