Job Title Sr Industrial Engineer * Reports to * CI Associate Manager * Department * Manufacturing * Job Location Guadalajara * Summary Position committed to quality and food safety carrying out activities directly and indirectly designing, developing, obtaining, manufacturing, distributing and/or selling our products to satisfy our customers and consumers. Analyze manufacturing and management processes. Develop understanding of key process indicators through all Supply Chain areas. Use analytical tools to identify key input variables and establish internal controls. Find ways to avoid waste and inefficiency in the processes within the supply chain, designing efficient systems that integrate workers, information, machines, energy and materials for the manufacture and distribution of our products. Develop, document, and implement Lean Manufacturing methodologies, continually reviewing production flow to identify breakdowns and weaknesses. * Responsibilities:* Processes improvement and Margin expansion Analyze complex manufacturing and management processes. Develop understanding of key process indicators through all Supply Chain areas. Use analytical tools to identify key input variables and establish internal controls. Identify and implement improvements to operating and business standards using engineering principles and creativity, participates and supports portions of predefined Engineering projects. Provides technical analysis for losses identification, non-valued added activities, down times. Makes appropriate recommendations and participates in the design training, and implementation. Supports plant equipment and production lines start-up improvement if needed. Participates in the development of specific capital projects through completion. Provides direction and support to the formulation, evaluation, strategy setting and presentation of product and process improvement alternatives by leading brainstorms, redesigns, and promotes implementation improvements to processes or equipment to improve safety, quality, customer service and cost. Support in the identification, follow up and monitoring Savings projects of the Saving initiatives from the annual pipeline Lean Manufacturing (Hershey Lean) Develop document, training and implement Lean Manufacturing methodologies, continually reviewing production flow to identify breakdowns and weaknesses. Launch & lead kaizen events. Facilitate and monitoring of activities that need to be close, as well as monitoring the metrics to be improved. Develop and support Hershey lean pillars (similar as TPM methodology) in Plant, drives effort and resources from different areas such as maintenance, production, engineering, EHS, Logistics and Quality to establish self-lead Teams and operators. Project management and execution skills. Identify and implement process improvement such as Safety, Quality, and Plant Efficiency. Capital Program Administration and Projects Work with Project Engineering team to ensure that new capital equipment designs meet the productivity requirements for the production environment including identification of anticipated work compliment and work balancing; identification of key process inputs; identification of planned maintenance activities, simplicity of changeover and cleaning, lay-out distribution, safety and ergonomic, financial analysis and integration with in-plant manufacturing execution systems. Support on loss analysis and savings definition on the Capital Projects presentation to the US global technical solutions teams, for capital approval. * Minimum knowledge and skills* • SAP LPR • Engineering fundamentals (Industrial engineering highly preferred) • Quality assurance and quality control principles • Experience implementing TPM methodology in another industry (Food industry preferred) • Continuous improvement systems and methodologies including Lean Six Sigma tools. (TPM, SMED, 5s, Kaizen, Andon, Heijunka, Wastes elimination, JIT, ZBA, VSM, Line balancing methods, etc.) (Black belt highly preferred) • Best Manufacturing practices and processes knowledge • Packaging processes general knowledge • Good knowledge of process engineering • Finance principles (highly preferred) • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office suites: World, Excel, PowerPoint etc. • Fluent in English. (>90% written and spoken) • Development and interpretation of Engineering documentation • Ergonomic design * Drive for Results * Collaborating with Others * Problem Solving and Decision Making * Team Leadership * Change Management * Systematic Thinking * Education* Industrial Engineer, Food Process Engineer, Chemical Engineer or related field and/or equivalent required experience. Lean six sigma / Black belt skills preferred. * Experience* 4 – 7 years combined experience in various manufacturing environments (food manufacturing preferred) with responsibility and experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control etc. Active participation in Lean Six Sigma tools implementation. International experiences or assignments preferred.