For the Chiang Mai facility in Thailand, we are looking for a Senior Industrial engineer with very good understanding of the native Thai culture and language.

Senior Industrial Engineer (M/F)

The Senior industrial engineer will report directly to the plant manager.

Responsibilities and duties

The day to day duties will contain, but not be limited to, the following tasks:

Create work instructions and set up the time metrics for each process. Line balancing.
Monitors and reports production performance against goals, especially those related to waste, productivity and cycle time.
Define and improve shop floor lay out.
Overseeing production processes and improve them.
Provides input for efficiency, runtime and waste reduction to Production.
Applies Lean concepts and efforts as in Kaizen, Standard Work, 5S, or other methods to improve productivity, reduce waste, improve safety and reduce cycle time.
Able to create productivity reports.
Training and motivating staff in order to set up a continuous improvement mindset.
Design jigs and tools for production.
Come with idea’s and proposal to improve productions times.
Assist Production Manager by giving training to explain processes and instructions.
Come with investment proposals to improve productivity.
Will address performance issues to Management.

Profile

The Senior Industrial Engineer should have at least the following qualifications:

Native Thai and Fluent in English as it is needed in daily communications with colleagues and foreign management.
Industrial Engineering degree.
Relevant working experience. Background in automotive industry will be appreciated, but not mandatory.
Proven analytical and problem solving skills.
Lean manufacturing principles and demonstrated use of the tools (Kaizen, 5S, Six Sigma)
Strong communicator with social interpersonal skills.

Interested?

If you are interested, please send your resume together with cover letter to elmer.van.weelderen@plymovent.com.