Principal Industrial Engineer (onsite)

Advanced Casting Foundry Industrial Engineer

Pratt & Whitney is constructing an Advanced Casting Foundry (ACF) within its Asheville, NC factory. We're looking for an Industrial Engineer who can assist the ACF with its production startup long term production planning. You'll work both on the shop floor and also strategically to understand and help design robust, scalable operations for peak aerospace volume. And using your knowledge of the process, you'll help coordinate with both operations for execution, and leadership for intermediate (3-6 month) and long (1-5 years) capacity, labor, and program plans.

What you will do:

• Active member in Foundry Operations Team to define and implement production plan to support an automated foundry.
• Study product requirements and determine capital equipment and labor staffing to meet requirements.
• Conduct machine capacity analysis and identify/manage improvement initiatives to baseline and increase efficiency (OEE/OLE).
• Develop methods to increase productivity, maximize efficiency and manage human capital more effectively.
• Recommend capital investment strategy to meet product delivery and cost targets.
• Evaluate the effects of schedule and product design changes.
• Participate in CORE events to layout equipment and workspace to baseline and improve production.
• Develop and implement production flow simulation to be use in daily production decision making.
• Working knowledge of product manufacturing / process technologies.

Qualifications you must have:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience in Industrial or Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, or Operations, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience.

Qualifications we prefer:

• Proficient in NX, Plant Sim and Process Sim packages.
• Master's degree in industrial or systems engineering; MBA.
• Knowledge of turbine blade value stream and casting processes.
• Data mining & manipulation experience with Excel, VBA, SQL, other methods.
• Green Belt Six Sigma Certification.
• Lean Manufacturing Certification.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.