Industrial Engineer

Are you interested in economics and engineering? Are you looking for a position where you could utilize your analytical and problem-solving skills to improve productivity, cycle time and on-time delivery to customers?

We are looking for an Industrial Engineer (IE) to join our Production System Development team in Murata Vantaa factory.

In this role you will be working in a team of other Industrial Engineers, Production Environment Development engineers and assistants. Your colleagues are top notch individuals, and we all enjoy working together. Besides industrial engineering, our team responsibilities include production environment development tasks such as clean room development and monitoring, 5S, Kaizen activities, production tool and furniture development etc.

Currently, our team focus is to expand the industrial engineering know-how and widen the IE role description. Our team level target is to make Murata production more effective and competitive while ensuring continuously better quality in production by utilizing new technologies. In industrial engineering side, the aim is to find the optimal and most productive operations while production development engineers create the high standard production conditions for better quality and continuous improvement.

We expect our industrial engineering section to be proactive, cost conscious and able to make productivity improvement decisions based on data-analysis. Guiding/supporting others, sharing information and monitoring production to find improvement opportunities are key actions in this role. Our team improvement has just started, and we still have one place for a future IE star. This is a great possibility to deepen your understanding about operations and financial aspect of production.

In this role your responsibilities include topics like

• Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) and production headcount planning
• Design and improvement of production layout
• Operator Standard Time (ST)/Machine Standard Time (MST) calculations
• Standard cost analysis
• Capacity planning & Economical evaluation
• Production system design – SOP, transportation, prod flow streamlining etc

Team

In this role, you are not working alone. With more difficult cases our team and other colleagues are always ready to support and find good solution for difficult problems. At Murata we cultivate a strong culture of cross-functional teamwork, so you will have the chance to collaborate with and learn from members of other teams in our organization as well. You will give support to production supervisors and work closely with process development, R&D and finance.

You are

We are looking for an individual with the ability to have broad view and motivation to improve current state. You have patience to make analysis of current situation and you get motivated once finding place for improvements. You are also persistent to promote and execute these productivity improvements from plan to implementation.

In order for you to succeed in this position, these are the essential qualities and skills we are looking for:

• Suitable technical education (e.g. B.Sc., M.Sc.), production engineering, industrial economy and management or similar preferred.
• Information gathering and data analysis is something you are interested and skilled
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to interact well with different people, and communicate findings and learnings to other parties in an understandable way
• Competence in financial calculations or aptitude for cost-oriented thinking
• Either fluent English or Finnish – knowledge of both languages is useful

As a person we appreciate your independency and openness towards new ideas and change. Systematic and solution-oriented way of work is natural for you. Our ideal candidate is self-oriented and is motivated to develop a more efficient production.

We have flexible remote work opportunities, and the presence on our Vantaa site heavily depends on the tasks at hand. At Vantaa you will work in a fab clean-room environment or in office. Especially in the beginning, on-site presence is needed to ensure smooth integration to the team.

Our company culture is based on our values, which are employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Based on our values, we have created a cultural etiquette, which guides our expected behavior. Helping each other’s, treating each other’s equally and nicely, and having an open discussion culture are core elements of our work community. We also strengthen customer satisfaction by being proactive and innovative and always thinking what our customer needs. If you also find these values important, this might be your place to be.

For further information, please contact the hiring manager Wilhelmiina Keltikangas (Manager, Production Environment Development). Inquiries primarily by email wilhelmiina.keltikangas@murata.com or by tel. +358 40 752 4136 (Available on weekdays at 12PM–1PM). If you can’t reach by phone, please leave a message.

We hope you are as motivated as we are to improve our teams IE knowledge. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your application in English or Finnish together with your resume and salary request, via the link until 2 Feb 2023. This is a permanent position and the start time can be agreed flexibly. The position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

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