About this role
As a Senior Operations Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for supporting manufacturing operations to streamline processes, improve data collection, own factory layouts, and support business initiatives. This is a technical role in a development-heavy environment, requiring execution on aggressive timelines and rapid iterations. Develop and own factory layouts for new and existing facilities, helping bring together competing requirements into a harmonious workflow, while considering material movement, build process flows, lifting and rigging solutions, and facilities requirements Develop data-collection and visualization tools for the manufacturing teams. Define and measure key metrics and KPI’s across the teams to improve efficiency and quality Deploy Lean/5S/Kaizen principles to eliminate waste and streamline workflows Perform time studies, define inefficiencies, suggest and implement improvements Develop and own personnel-development tools such as skills matrices Develop training materials for employees and managers to address safety, tribal knowledge, quality, and productivity Leverage MRP and ERP systems, and enterprise system teams, to make system enhancements Optimize and accelerate existing manufacturing processes Work with production teams to identify key bottlenecks and pain points, and take initiative to address those bottlenecks Support manufacturing capital projects, including new facility activations, automation efforts and new capability development