Industrial Engineer

About the role

MJM Recruitment is hiring an Industrial Engineer based in Johannesburg. The main purpose of the role is to make sure the business operates as efficiently as possible, using innovative and modern solutions. The salary is highly negotiable depending on current salary, and includes medical aid, pension fund and a 13th cheque.

Key responsibilities

• Project management: manage projects across the business, implement agile and waterfall methodologies, run project impact meetings with scorecards, and diagnose and solve project bottlenecks.
• Business process improvement (Kaizen): act as an internal consultant and process expert, identify problems, run workshops, measure the extent of issues, solve them efficiently, maintain the new systems and redesign processes to save time and resources.
• Data analytics: build and maintain company and department scorecards in Power BI, run analysis, scenario planning and simulation with management accounting models, and promote data-driven decision making.
• Innovation and research: facilitate workshops for engineers and data analysts, automate processes with RPA (Power Automate, Power BI, Smartsheet automation, chatbots), use machine learning and AI, and research technology and 4IR ideas to bring into the business.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or Business Process Engineering.
• Lean Six Sigma certification (0-2 years of experience).
• Management accounting certification is advantageous (high-level financial understanding).

Required skills

• Data analysis systems such as Power BI.
• Project management tools such as Smartsheet.

The vacancy is advertised by MJM Recruitment; interested candidates can contact the recruiter named in the listing.