Industrial Engineer Sr/Specialist

Responsibilities for this Position

Industrial Engineer Sr/Specialist

US-RI-North Kingstown

Job ID: 2025-17007
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 8
Category: Engineering
EB Quonset Point Facility

Overview

Delivering 1 COLUMBIA and 2 VIRGINIA Class submarines each year is critical to our nations defense, and D931 needs you to help us achieve it! The Industrial Engineering Organization provides mission-critical support to EB Leadership and the functional organizations through implementation of the EB Production System, developing and managing the organizations improvement strategies, measuring the impact of improvement activities, and establishing the processes for the simultaneous build of VIRGINIA and COLUMBIA class submarines.

The Industrial Engineer (IE) ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of manufacturing processes on the deck plate. Partnering with Operations Management (Ops Manager, Superintendent, & Supervisors), and Production Control Planners, the IE shares ownership of manufacturing performance. The IE oversees the initial implementation and sustained execution of production processes for their work center or product line, ensuring processes support production goals.

This role involves establishing repeatable and predictable production processes, material management strategies, production standards, and adhering to productivity targets. The IE provides direct support to the manufacturing team, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and maintains high standards of quality, cost, and schedule adherence.

This position is located at the Quonset Point facility in North Kingstown, RI.

Key responsibilities of the position will include:

Directly support Operations to ensure that the production processes and unit operations are run at optimum conditions. Provide daily operational troubleshooting and problem solving on emergent issues. Analyze and resolve production problems. Evaluate and maintain production process capability and provide documented OQE to ensure processes are efficient and capable of achieving production goals. Evaluate manufacturing processes to identify opportunities for improved technology and equipment.Monitor overall process operations and develop solutions to a broad range of technical problems applying industrial engineering and/or lean manufacturing principles and concepts.Develop manufacturing processes for new products (CLB and/or VPM) as applicableStudy and recommend process improvements to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce waste

Responsibilities

• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Must be capable of working both independently and in a team environment
• A highly motivated problem solver who is well organized with strong project management skills
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate manufacturing processes
• Thorough understanding of production metrics and process capability
• Ability to interface with various levels of employees and influence change

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering
• 5+ years of professional Engineering experience

Preferred:

• Experience with Lean Six Sigma
• Experience in a manufacturing setting on the production floor
• Experience tracking production metrics and process capability

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