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Cree, Inc. is a market-leading innovator and manufacturer of semiconductors that enhance the value of LED solid-state lighting, power and communications products by significantly increasing their energy performance.  In fiscal year 2009, we achieved record revenue of $567 million and have a goal to become a $1 billion company within the next few years.

Key to Cree’s market advantage is unrivaled materials expertise in silicon carbide (SiC) with gallium nitride (GaN) to deliver chips and packaged devices that can handle more power in a smaller space while producing less heat than other available technologies, materials and products.  Cree’s product families include blue and green LED chips, lighting LEDs, LEDs for backlighting, power-switching devices and radio-frequency/wireless devices.

We are headquartered in Raleigh/Durham, NC; an area consistently ranked in the Top 10 Places to Live by Money Magazine and is also home to the Research Triangle Park.  The RTP area was recently voted the #1 high-tech region in the country by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and consists of approximately 112 research related organizations and companies that employ over 40,000 people.  Cree’s facility in Durham has approximately 1600 full-time employees devoted to R&D, manufacturing, sales & marketing and other professional support roles.

Cree boasts a casual work environment, where jeans and shorts are a typical sight every day, not just on Friday.  We also have an onsite fitness facility; complete with indoor track, basketball court, 3 racquet ball courts, aerobics room, free weights, machine weights and cardio machines.  This facility is 100% free to our employees and their spouses, and is open Monday through Saturday.  Our benefits include a quarterly bonus program, stock options, 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition reimbursement, and medical/vision/dental coverage.

Summary:

The Industrial Engineer will be responsible for analyzing, designing, and implementing manufacturing process improvements that increase capacity, reduce lead-time, reduce the work-in-process, improve fill-rates, and improve process flow and efficiency.  Projects will incorporate lean manufacturing, theory of constraints, quick response manufacturing, JIT, Methods-Time Measurement, or a variety of other systems improvements philosophies.

This Industrial Engineer will support all departments associated with the manufacturing of high power SiC power and RF components.  For existing product lines, the IE will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of cycle counting for all manufacturing work units by verifying the integrity of all associated support systems.  This person will also be heavily involved with the introduction of new products by defining the appropriate routes and workflows in the manufacturing execution systems. This person will also perform value stream mapping for all product lines to help define cost improvement activities.

Responsibilities:

1. Analyzes, creates and implements manufacturing process improvements that increase capacity, reduce lead-time, eliminate non-value added, reduce work in progress and improve fill rates
2. Completes capacity analysis to identify headcount, equipment and space requirements using simulation software, Excel, or other effective tools
3. Participates as a core member in cross-functional teams to quickly troubleshoot and eliminate day to day production issues
4. Performs line balancing analysis to identify optimal staffing plans for production lines as demand fluctuates
5. Makes recommendations to engineering teams, that drive higher yielding, lower cost, more manufacturable products
6. Acts as the primary interface with Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Finance and IT to manage change control throughout the systems
7. Defines and implements manufacturing control metrics
8. Maintains accuracy of inventory, including raw material, work in progress and finished goods inventory using appropriate financially auditable methods
9. Determine and execute proper workflow for all exceptions to normal production routing
10. Manages production document change control, ensures standardization and change control of workflow travelers, including updates to automated shop floor management software flows
11. Perform process and value stream mapping for all new products
12. Define manufacturing system requirements for new products

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering or closely related field of study
• 2-5 years of Industrial Engineer/Lean manufacturing experience
• Working knowledge of Manufacturing Shop Floor Execution Systems
• Understanding of WIP management and cycle time reduction techniques
• Comfortable working in a time sensitive support environment
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to foster positive relationships with production employees, peers and manufacturing and accounting management
• Energetic, hands on; able to successfully drive change and continuous improvement
• Candidate must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)

Preferences

• 5+ years of industrial experience
• Oracle ERP experience
• APICS certification
• Experience developing reports with Microsoft reporting services
• Ability to create SQL queries
• Factory automation and simulation experience