1. IE Job Description Steve Snelling Industrial Engineer/Process Engineer
Boeing Commercial Airplanes

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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