Industrial Engineer

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Job Description

Shift: 1st Shift

Days of Work: Monday - Friday

Work Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm

Work Location: On-Site (Mankato, MN)

Starting Salary: $72,600 - $108,900

Pay Frequency: Bi-Weekly

At Nidec, we prioritize our team's well-being and success. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support you both personally and professionally. These are the great benefits we offer, with additional perks and programs available to enhance your overall experience with us.

• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary with additional bonus opportunities.
• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective from your first day.
• Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with a best in-class company match of 100% on the employee's first 6% with an additional 3% employer contribution to support your financial future.
• Work-Life Balance: Generous time off package, including PTO and holidays.
• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement and continuous learning opportunities to support your professional growth.

Develop and implement optimal, cost-effective manufacturing processes and methods in accordance with product specifications and quality standards.  Recommend and implement improvements to production processes, methods, and controls. Work with various engineering and production teams to implement and sustain change. Be a lean champion and help coach, mentor, and train others on lean tools and methodologies.

• →Apply statistical methods, lean manufacturing principles, and process analysis to deliver improved efficiency, throughput, cost reduction, and quality improvement projects.

• →Perform time and motion studies to analyze processes and work with multiple stake holders to document current and future state process standards.

• →Prepare and maintain detailed layouts of processes and related equipment.

• →Assist and facilitate lean events (Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, etc) throughout the plant.

• →Coordinate the manufacturing launch of new/revised products including establishing goals, training teams and evaluating results.

• →Work with production management, design and manufacturing engineering and other staff regarding manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production processes.

• →Participate in plant wide safety initiatives 

• →Perform other related duties as assigned

• 2 – 4 years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment

• Familiar with Lean Manufacturing concepts, tools and techniques

• Systematic thinking and structured problem-solving capability

• Comfortable in an environment of change, quickly reprioritize and adapt as needed

• Able to achieve results through influence and team work rather than direct reporting

• Demonstrated teamwork spirit and willingness to help people succeed

• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

• BS engineering degree or BS degree and applicable experience

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.