What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Engineer position at Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc.?
Brief Description
About Baldor
Since our beginnings as part of the iconic Greenwich Village retail store, Balducci’s, Baldor has maintained its original promise – curate and deliver the best ingredients from around the world. For 25 years, we have served the food industry using cutting edge logistics to create a seamless customer experience. Our commitment to service and quality has made us the first choice in distribution for a diverse list of industry leaders that includes hotels, restaurants, county clubs, hospitals, nursing homes.
Position Summary:
As an industry leader in wholesale, retail, and residential food distribution, Baldor Specialty Foods continues to grow and evolve at a rapid pace across all departments. The Industrial Engineer will capture value added and non-value added activities via time studies and observation within the Operations way of working. The Industrial Engineer would identify process opportunities and either define updated standard processes or work closely with the Design Engineering team for potential Automation opportunities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
About Baldor
Since our beginnings as part of the iconic Greenwich Village retail store, Balducci’s, Baldor has maintained its original promise – curate and deliver the best ingredients from around the world. For 25 years, we have served the food industry using cutting edge logistics to create a seamless customer experience. Our commitment to service and quality has made us the first choice in distribution for a diverse list of industry leaders that includes hotels, restaurants, county clubs, hospitals, nursing homes.
Position Summary:
As an industry leader in wholesale, retail, and residential food distribution, Baldor Specialty Foods continues to grow and evolve at a rapid pace across all departments. The Industrial Engineer will capture value added and non-value added activities via time studies and observation within the Operations way of working. The Industrial Engineer would identify process opportunities and either define updated standard processes or work closely with the Design Engineering team for potential Automation opportunities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops and implements plans that ensure the timely availability and effective utilization of labor, facilities, equipment, & tooling resources enabling the achievement of program delivery and cost milestones
- Conducts studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems
- Based on these studies, develops, and implements plans and programs for facility modifications and revisions to operating methods
- Responsible for updating work instructions, providing performance metrics and make recommendations to improve productivity and efficiency of operations
- Lead the documentation and deployment of best practices across sites
- Assist in the planning and design of facilities
- Provides capacity planning and staffing analysis to functional production teams
- Analyzes existing operational processes and develops metrics and reporting to optimize and improve program & operational performance
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
- 2 years in Industrial Engineering
- Strong Analytics Background
- Bilingual, a plus
- Strong proficiency in Excel, Word and Power Point.
- Must be precise & detail orientated.
