Industrial Engineer - Labor Specialist

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• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

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What You'll be Doing:

• Build and maintain engineered labor standards, including time and motion studies, process optimization, and process documentation
• Audit and update standards for changes in conditions
• Update and maintain calculations to be used as part of P&L processing each period to allocate labor to correct departments
• Educate store leadership and corporate office teams on labor concepts to improve understanding and acceptance as a key data point in decision making
• Design and create labor model to align with company initiatives
• Design and update configurations within the scheduling and timekeeping tool
• Work with store operations and scheduling teams to create SOPs based on engineered standards
• Provide labor based ROI comparisons on anticipated business ventures or processes
• Own and drive projects to simplify process in store and create labor efficiency
• Monitor performance reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis proactively providing key call outs to store leadership to assist in managing the effective use of store labor
• Answer any and all questions related to store labor budgets
• Ability to assess and discuss the human and organizational impacts of major change on existing operation and facilitate the exchange of ideas between engineering, management, and team members
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required

What You Bring With You (Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field. Master’s Degree preferred
• Five (5) years of retail experience preferred
• Previous experience working with labor modeling creating engineered standards, time studies, ROIs, and labor budgeting
• Experience with labor reporting systems (ex: MOST, Standards Pro, Kronos or equivalent)
• Ability to communicate clearly to a variety of audiences on complex topics
• Previous experience with scheduling and timekeeping tools
• Strong skills in MS Excel and other MS Office tools
• Excellent organizational, analytical, written and communicative skills
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and lead/influence client base