IE Job Description Steve Snelling Industrial Engineer/Process Engineer Boeing Commercial Airplanes stephen.r.snelling@boeing.com
In General What Most Industrial Engineers Do Depending on the type of industry, they may do some or all of the traditional Industrial Engineering activities: Facility Planning & Layout Inventory Control & Inventory Management Production Control & Shop Floor Control Standard Data Development & Time Studies Some do Consulting work Some do Research in a lab environment Some teach at Engineering schools
Some Types Of IE Projects Process improvement Problem resolution Elimination of rework Cost analysis Equipment justification Facility layout Stand alone benchmarking Systems integration Listed are some of the more common types of IE projects.
Types of Industries IEs May Work In Aluminum & Steel Materials Testing Ceramics Electronics Assembly Aerospace & Airplanes Plastics & forming Shipbuilding Entertainment Military Medical Services Forestry & Logging Mining Banking State & Federal Government Transportation Oil & Gas Insurance Consulting
Main Areas IEs Work In at The Boeing Co. MANAGE PROJECTS Project Management Project Scheduling Risk Management PROCESS IMPROVEMENT Lean Manufacturing Engineering Economic Analysis Process Modeling Root Cause Analysis Statistical Methods Six Sigma Time Studies Work Sampling SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS Supply Chain Alignment Material Logistic Inventory Control Supplier Support Make/Buy Mfg Process OPERATIONS IMPROVEMENT Ergonomics & Human Factors Operating Plans Recovery Planning Capacity Planning INTEGRATED SYSTEMS Value Stream Analysis Facilities Layout Production System Design Manufacturing Process Design Systems Thinking DIRECT SUPPORT TO PRODUCTION Production Scheduling Theory of Constraints Budgets & Forecasts Crew Empowerment Defect Analysis Benchmarking Analysis
Industrial Engineering Functional Work Areas Product Engineering Project Management Finance Quality - Team Facilitation - Product Development Resource Planning Risk Analysis Project Scheduling - SPC/SQC - DOE - Supplier Quality - Queuing Theory - Six Sigma - Make/Buy Analysis - Comparison of Alternatives - Cost Estimating Production Control Training Facilities Transportation Factory Operations - Course Facilitation Job Scheduling Expedite procedures - Logistics Planning - Material Handling - Layout Design - Process Flow Analysis IE Methods - Production Simulation - Theory of Constraints - Systems Integration - OSHA Regulations - Safety Management - Linear Programming - Lean Manufacturing Tooling Inventory - Workstation Design - Ergonomics - Methods Engineering - Inventory Management - Supplier Selection - Material Requirements Planning - Supply Chain Management Tool Fab process Tool Offload procedures - Tool Repair process - Tool Room procedures