Industrial Engineer II - Material Flow and Logistics
Henny Penny

Job Info

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Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

The Industrial Engineer II - Material Flow and Logistics plays a key role in designing and supporting a wide range of logistics, material flow, material delivery, inventory, and warehousing projects. They will be involved with developing, implementing, and supporting processes for warehouse automation, logistics optimization in a multi plant setting, and solving supply chain related problems. This is a new role to Henny Penny and the role will be pivotal in designing and implementing the future of Henny Penny material flow, warehousing, and logistics functions.

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service. This is a qualified retirement plan that is separate from your 401k and consists only of Henny Penny shares that will be paid out when you retire (or when you leave the company, but we hope you'll stay!)
  
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
  
• Defined career paths so you'll always know what's next and what steps can get where you want to go
  
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
  
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
  
• Onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
  
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner
  

What You'll Be Doing:

• Analyzes data and specifications to establish reasonable time delivery, storage, and production standards.
• Applies industrial management techniques and principles to develop cost and time-saving recommendations and modifications to material flow, storage, staffing requirements, equipment, and facilities upgrades.
• Designs and coordinates all phases of the logistics and warehousing process using industrial engineering principles and best practices.
• Works with other engineers in planning work force utilization, space requirements, workflow, material flow, and workspace layout for maximum efficiency.
• Coordinates with all parties implementation of new or redesigned processes to include establishing goals, training operators and managers, and evaluating results.
• Lead less defined projects involving a moderate amount of complexity.
• Apply knowledge to identify problems that are not immediately apparent and take action.
• Develop all aspects of process design and implementation.
• Implement internal process improvements and facilitate change management.
• Complete tasks that support the overall schedule and clearly communicates status.
• Maintain an organized and clean environment.
• Represents Manufacturing and works within cross-functional teams (Quality, Safety, Design, Manufacturing) to identify and solve manufacturing-related problems.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure project objectives are met
• Other duties as assigned.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years manufacturing process experience.
• Collaborative style and a passion for learning, laughing, and achieving.
• Excellent communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Experience in a single piece flow, 1x1 manufacturing environment.
• Proven process automation ability including AGV systems for material delivery/transport.
• Strong knowledge using sequencing and kitting methods.
• Competency in identifying and eliminating 8 manufacturing wastes: Transport, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over Production, Over Processing, Defects and Underutilization of Skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel overnight for trainings and tradeshows.
• Strong MS office, presentation, or PowerPoint skills.
• Strong elemental, work balance table, time study, and value steam mapping analysis knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of workplace organization and material flow.
• Strong labor routing, required to run, and standard work development skills.
• Strong knowledge with continuous improvement, Six Sigma, and lean manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of 5S principles within manufacturing.
• Experienced with Kanban and just in time material delivery methods including timed train/tugger routes.
• Experienced in using AutoCAD to generate layouts and flow routes.
• Understanding of visual management principles.
• Proven project management ability.
• Detail oriented and strong creativity skills.
• Ability to work with suppliers.
• Must be able to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and root cause analysis using a data driven approach.

About Us

We're known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We're a behind-the-scenes engine in the world's most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy's. We're 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world's most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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