IE Job Description

Steve Snelling
Industrial Engineer/Process Engineer
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
stephen.r.snelling@boeing.com

In General
What Most Industrial Engineers Do
Depending on the type of industry, they may
do some or all of the traditional Industrial
Engineering activities:

Facility Planning & Layout

Inventory Control & Inventory Management
Production Control & Shop Floor Control
Standard Data Development & Time Studies

Some do Consulting work

Some do Research in a lab environment
Some teach at Engineering schools

Some Types Of IE Projects

Process improvement
Problem resolution
Elimination of rework
Cost analysis
Equipment justification
Facility layout
Stand alone benchmarking
Systems integration

Types of Industries
IEs May Work In

Aluminum & Steel

Materials Testing
Ceramics
Electronics Assembly
Aerospace & Airplanes
Plastics & forming
Shipbuilding
Entertainment
Military

Medical Services
Forestry & Logging
Mining
Banking
State & Federal
Government
Transportation
Oil & Gas
Insurance
Consulting
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Main Areas IEs Work In

at The Boeing Co.

MANAGE PROJECTS
Project Management
Project Scheduling
Risk Management
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Lean Manufacturing
Engineering Economic Analysis
Process Modeling
Root Cause Analysis
Statistical Methods
Six Sigma
Time Studies
Work Sampling
SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS
Supply Chain Alignment
Material Logistic
Inventory Control
Supplier Support
Make/Buy Mfg Process

OPERATIONS IMPROVEMENT

INTEGRATED SYSTEMS

Ergonomics & Human Factors

Operating Plans
Recovery Planning
Capacity Planning

Value Stream Analysis

Facilities Layout
Production System Design
Manufacturing Process Design
Systems Thinking

DIRECT SUPPORT TO PRODUCTION

Production Scheduling
Theory of Constraints
Budgets & Forecasts
Crew Empowerment
Defect Analysis
Benchmarking Analysis

Industrial Engineering
Functional Work Areas

Product
Engineering

Finance

- Team Facilitation
- Product Development

Production
Control

Project Management

Quality

- Resource Planning
- Risk Analysis
- Project Scheduling

- SPC/SQC
- Make/Buy Analysis
- DOE
- Comparison of Alternatives
- Supplier Quality
- Cost Estimating
- Queuing Theory
- Six Sigma
Facilities
Transportation

Factory Operations
- Job Scheduling
- Expedite procedures
- Layout Design
- Process Flow Analysis
IE Methods
Tooling
- Workstation Design
- Ergonomics
- Methods Engineering

-Tool Fab process

- Tool Offload procedures
- Tool Repair process
- Tool Room procedures

Training

- Course Facilitation
- Logistics Planning
- Material Handling

- Production Simulation
- Theory of Constraints
- Systems Integration
- OSHA Regulations
- Safety Management
- Linear Programming
- Lean Manufacturing

Inventory
- Inventory Management
- Supplier Selection
- Material Requirements Planning
- Supply Chain Management