Senior Technology Engineer - Material Handling at BURN

About the role:

• To research, and develop new material handling methodologies, technologies, and systems to eliminate wastes, and to improve the safety, quality, cost, and efficiency of the material handling processes throughout the value stream.
• To support BURN’s different departments with material handling standards, best practices, and know-how.
• To collaborate with various engineering departments at BURN in material handling process excellence activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the internal departments to perfectly understand the materials to be handled, and the requirements of the material handling process from RM to FG.
• Assess, evaluate, and analyze the safety, cost, quality, and efficiency of the current material handling processes.
• Develop best practices, and innovative solutions to improve material handling throughout the value-adding process and to lead new material handling process and system development projects:
• Initiation, scoping, concept validation, risk assessment, and ROI for the new system.
• Spec’ing of the new system.
• Lead all technical discussions with international and local vendors.
• Manage the related communications among all internal and external parties.
• Plan, monitor, control, and report the progress of the project.
• Documentation and standardization of the new process/technology.
• Support the implementation team with standards, and know-how when needed.
• Development and standardization of RM, and WIP Kanban systems.
• Development and standardization of BURN’s product CKD strategy.
• Collaborate with BURN’s QA team to develop material handling SOPs.
• Assist in material handling technology transfer to new local and global sites

Skills and Experience:

• Mechanical/Industrial engineering degree.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in the design and/or development of material handling systems with at least 3 years in sheet metal factories, and/or manual product assembly facilities.
• Very good understanding of sheet metal material handling techniques, and equipment.
• Very good understanding of racking system design and requirements.
• Good knowledge of container sizes, and loading/offloading best practices.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong MS Excel skills.
• Strong communications and presentation skills.
• Lean Six Sigma green belt holders are preferred.
• CAD skills: Candidates capable of using SolidWorks and/or AutoCAD 2D are preferred.
• Creative.
• Problem solver.
• Good listener.
• Self-confident.
• Excellent communicator.
• Detail oriented and well-organized.
• Team player.