Industrial Engineer - Labor Specialist

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Responsible for partnering with store leadership to drive operational productivity, capacity, and efficiency through the development of engineered labor standards. Applies industrial engineering concepts to forecast accurate future budgets, including sales, customer sales, and item movement.

What You'll be Doing:

• Build and maintain engineered labor standards, including time and motion studies, process optimization, and process documentation

• Audit and update standards for changes in conditions

• Update and maintain calculations to be used as part of P&L processing each period to allocate labor to correct departments

• Educate store leadership and corporate office teams on labor concepts to improve understanding and acceptance as a key data point in decision making

• Design and create labor model to align with company initiatives

• Design and update configurations within the scheduling and timekeeping tool

• Work with store operations and scheduling teams to create SOPs based on engineered standards

• Provide labor based ROI comparisons on anticipated business ventures or processes

• Own and drive projects to simplify process in store and create labor efficiency

• Monitor performance reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis proactively providing key call outs to store leadership to assist in managing the effective use of store labor

• Answer any and all questions related to store labor budgets

• Ability to assess and discuss the human and organizational impacts of major change on existing operation and facilitate the exchange of ideas between engineering, management, and team members

• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required

What You Bring With You (Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field. Master’s Degree preferred

• Five (5) years of retail experience preferred

• Previous experience working with labor modeling creating engineered standards, time studies, ROIs, and labor budgeting

• Experience with labor reporting systems (ex: MOST, Standards Pro, Kronos or equivalent)

• Ability to communicate clearly to a variety of audiences on complex topics

• Previous experience with scheduling and timekeeping tools

• Strong skills in MS Excel and other MS Office tools

• Excellent organizational, analytical, written and communicative skills

• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and lead/influence client base

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

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