When you join the Sandalwood team, you’ll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.
In your day to day activities, you’ll work with multiple customers, as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwood’s areas of expertise of Injury Prevention, Systems Engineering & Systems Integration. You’ll help customers innovate, solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwood’s deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.
You will have opportunities to help lead your own individual development with programs designed to guide you. Feeling you haven’t been recognized lately? You will have the chance to consistently appreciate your coworkers and be appreciated by your coworkers for continued distinction using our peer to peer appreciation and feedback software.
You will be encouraged to participate in Sandalwood’s multitude of extra-curricular activities including:
- An innovative health, safety and wellness program
- An internal innovation forum to guide and develop innovation initiatives
- The all-team meeting and staff day planning committee, dedicated to fostering team dynamics, collaboration and cross-functional interactions
- Participating in on-campus and virtual recruiting
- The social committee plans various get-togethers for the team outside of work
- Our cross-line of business marketing committee assists with marketing planning, ideas and collaboration
- The mentorship program provides a forum for mentors/mentees to connect and provide feedback, make connections and offer encouragement
- Community involvement opportunities driven by our team’s background, our companies’ core values and community need
Sandalwood’s people are it’s greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel, Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics.
Tasks assigned / Work priorities:
- Support different teams in the evaluation of existing /future workstations
- Evaluate Workstations/Operations based on Ergonomic Risks Assessments
- Recommend corrective actions, and lead teams to completion as needed
- Meet Program Deliverables on time and schedule
- Provide regular (daily, weekly, etc.) Tracking Status to the designated Team Leader
- Attend designated meetings to provide status reports
- Capture and register for all tryouts, runoffs and quality impacts for the project implementations and engineering updates/upgrades.
- Manage within master timing charts, with corrective actions and recovery plans identified where needed.
- Support and follow up of open issues
- Design of new workstations
- Creation and edition of operator instructions sheets
- Evaluate workstations based on safety risk
- Evaluate workstations based on quality requirements.
- Creation and edition of time study workstations to meet the workload
- Edition of process sheets for the process (Elements, parts, tools, variations codes)
- Allocation of process sheets through workstations / operations.
- Accomplish the department objectives addressed by the client using problem solving technique.
Requirements
Skills / Abilities:
- Basic knowledge of ergonomic risk assessments and other Ergonomic tools
- MODAPTS knowledge (as desired), using as a basic tool to meet daily activities
- Experience in time studies and production line rebalancing
- Experience in the manufacturing environment
- Organizational and planning skills
- Strong communication skills to interact with different level of members within the organization
- Teamwork, proactive, with sense of urgency & customer service attitude to drive customer satisfaction (internal & external)
- Working under pressure and time availability
- Strong Negotiation skills to drive timing targets
- The ability to report project status accurately and in timely fashion to manager level management
Professional Experience / required knowledge:
- + 2 Years’ Experience with Industrial Engineering roles
- Automotive customer portals knowledge
- Experience in Automotive industry company
- Fluent written and spoken technical English
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline or Industrial Engineer
Benefits
- Health Care Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Training & Development
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of experience in industrial engineering roles
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or industrial engineering
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience in an automotive industry company
- Fluent written and spoken technical English
- Experience with time studies and production line rebalancing
- Basic knowledge of ergonomic risk assessments and ergonomic tools
- Knowledge of automotive customer portals
- MODAPTS knowledge
- Organizational and planning skills
- Strong communication skills
- Teamwork, proactive approach, sense of urgency, and customer service attitude
- Ability to work under pressure and maintain time availability
- Strong negotiation skills
- Ability to report project status accurately and promptly to management
What We Do
Sandalwood is an engineering and ergonomics consulting firm. Sandalwood designs and executes strategic programs for manufacturers which reduce their work-related risks to quality, productivity and employee health. By providing knowledge, research, technology and resources, Sandalwood supports its clients at the executive level as well as on the factory floor.
