Senior Operations Engineer

As a Senior Operations Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for supporting manufacturing operations to streamline processes, improve data collection, own factory layouts, and support business initiatives. This is a technical role in a development-heavy environment, requiring execution on aggressive timelines and rapid iterations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own factory layouts for new and existing facilities, helping bring together competing requirements into a harmonious workflow, while considering material movement, build process flows, lifting and rigging solutions, and facilities requirements
• Develop data-collection and visualization tools for the manufacturing teams. Define and measure key metrics and KPI’s across the teams to improve efficiency and quality
• Deploy Lean/5S/Kaizen principles to eliminate waste and streamline workflows
• Perform time studies, define inefficiencies, suggest and implement improvements
• Develop and own personnel-development tools such as skills matrices
• Develop training materials for employees and managers to address safety, tribal knowledge, quality, and productivity
• Leverage MRP and ERP systems, and enterprise system teams, to make system enhancements
• Optimize and accelerate existing manufacturing processes
• Work with production teams to identify key bottlenecks and pain points, and take initiative to address those bottlenecks
• Support manufacturing capital projects, including new facility activations, automation efforts and new capability development

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, or related field 
• Demonstrate experience in developing and improving manufacturing and operations processes
• Experience working in a software development environment
• 5+ years of demonstrated operations experience