Bachoco Group is a leading multi-business and multiprotein producer, and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 40,000 employees. We offer a wide portfolio of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, which include farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.
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Bachoco USA is seeking an Industrial Engineer in the Continuous Improvement department for our Fort Smith, AR Central Offices.
Summary: The Industrial Engineer will be responsible for optimizing and enhancing various aspects of our poultry production process. Will be crucial in ensuring the efficient, safe, and high-quality production of poultry products. This role requires a strong understanding of poultry processing operations and a focus on continuous improvement.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned
- Perform productivity measurements consolidating capabilities of equipment, lines, personnel, and processes to design and report efficiency measurements of the process on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Find inefficiency solutions detected in the production lines through the integration of equipment and the establishment of action plans to improve the process.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and optimize the layout of the poultry processing line.
- Identify the deviations of yield to perform cause and effect investigations to create an action plan with management team for its control.
- Review headcount to identify adjustments on personnel to increase productivity on headcount, resources, and equipment.
- Regularly analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate process efficiency and product quality.
- Develop and update standard operating procedures for various poultry processing operations.
- Drive training responsibilities to supervisors and management on specific techniques of industrial engineering, statistics, and lean manufacturing to develop necessary action plans to improve the process.
- Support lean six sigma projects to assure savings according to plan.
- This is a safety sensitive position.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience: Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Chemical, Electrical) from four-year college or university; or five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. Ability to comprehend and apply principles of advanced calculus, modern algebra, and advanced statistical theory. Ability to work with concepts such as limits, rings, quadratic and differential equations, and proofs of theorems.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Accounting software; Database software; Inventory software; Manufacturing software; Project Management software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Lean Six Sigma (green or black belt) preferred.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.
- Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies: Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.
