Warehouse Industrial Engineer

Warehouse Industrial Engineer

Requirements

• 3+ years operational experience in distribution or manufacturing
• Able to guide and influence peers and leaders across levels and organization. Disseminate information effectively
• Capacity Planning experience or Industrial Engineering background focused on operations flow and labor management
• Technical aptitude in multiple systems; understanding of Google Suite, Data Visualization platforms, basic SQL/GBQ
• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (engineering, economics, math, and statistics), business or equivalent
• Basic and working knowledge of Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques; process focused, organized and able to assess change management requirements
• Strong understanding in the use of technical/statistical tools to drive process improvements
• You must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by Wayfair now or in the future
• Not a remote/virtual position

Responsibilities

• You will create daily operating plans for a site and resolve variances between plan, actuals, and goals. Responsible for building plans at this cadence to align with Site Director and network priorities
• You will monitor plans and work in process backlogs to consider impacts of future planning and staffing
• You will provide input to strategic shift planning at the site to ensure the building is staffed according to mid-long term volume projections
• Coordinate with local site operations and central planning teams to analyze historical data and forecast demand for that site
• Manage and interpret the analyses of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting of site performance via Key Performance Indicators (Service Level Commitments)
• You will be able to engage at shift level, in real time to make proactive changes to support execution of the daily operations plan
• You’ll be responsible for facilitating problem solving efforts when goals are not met based on current inputs to daily plan – i.e. Attrition, Absenteeism, Productivity
• You will support site operations team by optimizing staffing requirements for the site specific daily plan
• You will build a strong relationship with the site operations team to ensure proper execution of the daily level capacity / throughput plan through education in visibility to data and constant communication
• Work in close collaboration with Network Planning, Field Industrial Engineering, Process Definition and Standards Excellence to enable performance management improvements

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.