Associate, Industrial Engineering

Associate Industrial Engineer
As an Associate Industrial Engineer, you are responsible for working closely with Operations and senior engineering professionals to build labor standards and support ongoing continuous improvement projects. In addition, your focus will be on the development and implementation of projects designed to increase facility utilization, improve upon existing SLAs and provide a safe work environment for Deckers associates.
This position emphasizes optimizing facility performance, engaging in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Facility Optimization: Improving metrics, systems, safety, and quality within the Distribution Center (DC).
Partnering with Operations leadership to prioritize and drive improvements that benefit the customer experience.
Continuous Improvement Leadership: Creating and leading projects with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to address gaps and improve processes.
Training and Facilitation: Leading Lean training sessions and rapid improvement events to spread knowledge across the organization.
Process Analysis: In-depth analysis of complex production and processes to identify improvement opportunities.
Facilitating business teams and developing team members by recognizing strong performers and coaching others to improve.
Supporting environmental sustainability efforts in line with corporate goals.
Safety and Efficiency: Ensuring that operations run safely and efficiently, while fostering a culture of recognition and coaching.
The Associate Industrial Engineer develops labor standards, publishes area efficiency levels and partners with facility leadership to improve operational effectiveness. This includes, but is not limited to improving customer SLAs, reducing labor costs and driving improvement in overall CPU. Develop and implement continuous improvement projects that underpin the annual strategic pillars, monitoring project status, identifying project constraints and proposing creative solutions to remove.
Craft regular presentations to senior management communicating key take-aways from multiple initiatives and offering data to support decisions to be made.
As the IE Manager you support and Working with Operational, Quality and Functional stakeholders, lead on the development of a prioritized project pipeline to deliver Cost of Quality (COQ) reduction goals.
Collaborate with operations, other teams. As the Associate IE, you Identify specific employees for special recognition or those who may require coaching, to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Leveraging organization skills, problem solving, and creative thinking they resolve escalated issues, drive continuous process improvement and team development in a dynamic environment. Bachelor's degree in Industrial/System Engineering field preferred
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification is preferred.
Work Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience in the development and implementation of pre-determined labor standards.
• Labor management implementation and productivity reporting
• 1-3 years of experience in optimizing fulfillment and distribution warehouse operations
• Knowledge and or working experience with automation(Autostore, Exotec, Caja).
• Extensive knowledge and use of AutoCad
• Experience writing SQL queries to extract data from WMS
• Experience in facility and process redesign and implementation

Demonstrated ability to execute several projects simultaneously.
Proficient in Microsoft Applications
Excellent team building, project management and organizational skills
Light: Office work, some lifting, considerable walking Arduous: The salary range posted reflects the estimated minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this role in:
Individual pay will be determined by location and additional factors, including job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Equal Employment Opportunity Diversity and inclusion are key to our success. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds who share a passion for our brands. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition and all the other beautiful parts of your identity.