Senior Operations Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Operations Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for supporting manufacturing operations to streamline processes, improve data collection, own factory layouts, and support business initiatives. This is a technical role in a development-heavy environment, requiring execution on aggressive timelines and rapid iterations.

Develop and own factory layouts for new and existing facilities, helping bring together competing requirements into a harmonious workflow, while considering material movement, build process flows, lifting and rigging solutions, and facilities requirements
Develop data-collection and visualization tools for the manufacturing teams. Define and measure key metrics and KPI’s across the teams to improve efficiency and quality
Deploy Lean/5S/Kaizen principles to eliminate waste and streamline workflows
Perform time studies, define inefficiencies, suggest and implement improvements
Develop and own personnel-development tools such as skills matrices
Develop training materials for employees and managers to address safety, tribal knowledge, quality, and productivity
Leverage MRP and ERP systems, and enterprise system teams, to make system enhancements
Optimize and accelerate existing manufacturing processes
Work with production teams to identify key bottlenecks and pain points, and take initiative to address those bottlenecks
Support manufacturing capital projects, including new facility activations, automation efforts and new capability development

Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, or related field
Demonstrate experience in developing and improving manufacturing and operations processes
Experience working in a software development environment
5+ years of demonstrated operations experience