Industrial Engineering Manager - Burlington Stores

Welcome to a role where every day presents new challenges and opportunities for innovation! As the Manager Industrial Engineering, you'll embark on a journey of engineering and operational excellence. Picture yourself at the helm, orchestrating project priorities, ensuring milestones are met, and budgets are adhered to, all while fostering a culture of creativity and efficiency. From refining engineered standards to testing groundbreaking concepts, you'll be at the forefront of revolutionizing our processes and setups, integrating agronomical principles seamlessly into our workflow. Your expertise in project management, coupled with a knack for labor data analysis, will drive strategic decision-making and propel us towards our expense and throughput improvement objectives. With your guidance, our team will thrive, armed with SOPs, best practices, and a shared commitment to excellence. If you're ready to unleash your potential and shape the future of our logistics network, join us in this exhilarating journey where every day is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact! 

A Day In the Life:

• Manage 3-4 Industrial Engineers. Provide project leadership and assist in prioritizing projects. Ensures projects/department milestones are met and adhering to assigned budget. Use appropriate project management tools to plan, develop, and coordinate the completion of assigned tasks and deliver quantifiable results.
• Manage the development and maintenance of accurate and effective engineered standards through detailed review of time and frequency studies. Manage the development and maintenance of best practices for all job functions.
• Lead, test, and rollout new concepts to improve the processes flow and setup in the distribution centers while taking into consideration agronomical concepts in any work area designs. Support the design and installation of material handling equipment incorporated into existing and new Distribution Centers.
• Utilize labor data to cost rationalize capital expenditure. Support capital projects when required with work sampling, cost justification (Return on Investment), and cost/benefit analyses. Perform due diligence on each project to ensure accuracy of costs assumptions, capacity assumptions, and timing assumptions. Develop presentations and present recommendations to senior management.
• Support business objectives for expense and throughput improvement initiatives through needs assessment, work methods flow analysis, recommendations and project implementation.
• Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and build strong relationships with distribution operations team partners to coach and train in the proper definition, communication, and implementation of best practices.
• Assists in the development of processes and mechanisms for labor forecasting, staffing, modeling, incentive performance reporting and tracking and other reporting as required to support management of engineering projects.
• Partners with DC Ops Leadership to develop and validate financial and operating expense budgets.
• Additional responsibilities include collaborating with Continuous Improvement Team and DC Operations to provide cross functional project support (Transportation, Analytics, Merchandising, etc.).

You'll Come With:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in projects related to process design, work measurement, productivity improvement, cost reduction and project implementation.
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and coaching teams to achieve performance goals and professional development milestones; Well versed in team education, training, and facilitation of engineering principles.
• Experience working in a high-volume, fast-paced distribution center
• Experience with work measurement, standard data, and predetermined time systems and tools with an emphasis on time study expertise.
• Experience in the development, maintenance, and implementation of a management observation and accountability programs.
• Strong ability to gather, analyze and interpret information and develop, recommend, and implement solutions while maintaining budget.
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification preferred.

Come join our team. You’re going to like it here!

You will enjoy a competitive wage, flexible hours, and an associate discount. Burlington’s benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage including life and disability insurance. Full time associates are also eligible for paid time off, paid holidays and a 401(k) plan.

We are a rapidly growing brand, and provide a variety of training and development opportunities so our associates can grow with us. Our teams work hard and have fun together! Burlington associates make a difference in the lives of customers, colleagues, and the communities where we live and work every day. Burlington Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity.

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