The primary purpose of this position is to lead all engineering activities and establish a mentality of process improvement within TJX Companies' distribution center to improve process efficiency, maintain labor standards, and reduce costs.
Requirements
- MS Office Suite with strong MS Excel skills, MS Access, and Visio.
- Experience with best-in-class Labor Reporting Systems, MOST and Standards Pro.
- Experience with Red Prairie, Manhattan or equivalent LMS
- Previous experience with Distribution planning models (square footage, labor, staffing, etc.)
- Awareness of material handling technology applications
- Five or more years of related Industrial Engineering experience
- Prior exposure managing a team, completing multi-variable work measurements and developing labor standards, process improvement initiatives, and network optimization projects within a distribution center environment.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and provide solutions for cost reduction through process improvements and cost/benefit analysis.
- Design and recommend department layouts and product flows.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and develop, analyze, and present cost-efficient solutions.
- Identify capacity impacts to distribution centers associated with varying parameters within the supply chain.
- Develop preferred methods/Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the warehouse in conjunction with Operational support.
- Establish and maintain standards using MOST and full cycle frequency studies across all operational processes.
- Conduct ergonomic evaluations, recommending and implementing improvements to work area designs.
Other
- Five or more years of related Industrial Engineering experience and prior exposure managing a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills, professional, and empathic.
- Ability to take ideas from concept to implementation and can influence decision-making with all stake-holders.
- Outstanding multi-tasking ability to meet concurrent project timelines.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (not explicitly mentioned but implied)
