When you join the Sandalwood team, you'll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.
You will have opportunities to help lead your own individual development with programs designed to guide you. Feeling you haven't been recognized lately? You will have the chance to consistently appreciate your coworkers and be appreciated by your coworkers for continued distinction using our peer to peer appreciation and feedback software.
You will be encouraged to participate in Sandalwood's multitude of extra-curricular activities including:
- An innovative health, safety and wellness program
- An internal innovation forum to guide and develop innovation initiatives
- The all-team meeting and staff day planning committee, dedicated to fostering team dynamics, collaboration and cross-functional interactions
- Participating in on-campus and virtual recruiting
- The social committee plans various get-togethers for the team outside of work
- Our cross-line of business marketing committee assists with marketing planning, ideas and collaboration
- The mentorship program provides a forum for mentors/mentees to connect and provide feedback, make connections and offer encouragement
- Community involvement opportunities driven by our team's background, our companies' core values and community need
Sandalwood's people are it's greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel, Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics.
We're currently looking for an Industrial / Ergonomic Engineer to join our growing team of engineering and ergonomics professionals. Details about the role are as follows:
- Knowledge of ergonomic risk assessments: NIOSH, Liberty Mutual, Rodgers/Kodak, Strain Index, AAMA Metabolic, RULA, REBA, Anthropometric tables and other Ergonomic tools
- The ability to report project status accurately and in timely fashion to manager level management
- Strong Negotiation skills to drive timing targets
- Working under pressure and time availability
- Teamwork, proactive, with sense of urgency & customer service attitude to drive customer satisfaction (internal & external)
- Strong communication skills to interact with different level of members within the organization
- Organizational and planning skills
- Experience in the manufacturing environment
- Knowledge on Ergonomic simulation software (Jack)
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Support different teams in the evaluation of existing/future workstation regarding ergonomic risks
- Evaluate Workstations/Operations based on Ergonomic Risks Assessments
- Recommend corrective actions, and lead teams to completion as needed
- Meet Program Deliverables on time and schedule
- Provide regular (daily, weekly, etc.) Tracking Status to the designated Team Leader
- Attend designated meetings to provide status reports
- Accomplish the department objectives addressed by the client using problem solving techniques
- Capture and register for all tryouts, runoffs, and quality impacts for the project implementations and engineering updates/upgrades
- Manage within master timing charts, with corrective actions and recovery plans identified where needed
- Support and follow up of open issues
- Design of new workstations
- Creation and edition of operator instructions sheets
- Evaluate workstations based on safety risk
- Evaluate workstations based on quality requirements
- Creation and edition of time study workstations to meet the workload
- Edition of process sheets for the process (elements, parts, tools, and variation codes)
- Allocation of process sheets through workstations/operations
- Accomplish the department objectives addressed by the client using problem solving technique.
- Accomplish the department objectives addressed by the client using problem solving technique.
- Conduct physical demands analyses, ergonomic risk analyses on single jobs, production lines, or entire plants
- Perform ergonomic assessments using standard ergonomic analysis tools and/or using Digital Human Modeling software and complete detailed technical reports
- Provide assembly plant ergonomic support to identify and prioritize ergonomic risks, conduct ergonomic risk assessments and provide recommendations on elimination of risk.
- Perform virtual assessment of Ergonomic risk utilizing such software systems as Teamcenter, Process Simulate, and/or Jack, and provide recommendations for improvements
- Develop ergonomic specifications and standards through literature review, research, and ergonomic analysis
**Requirements**:
- B.S. or M.S. in Kinesiology, Industrial Engineering, Human Factors, Occupational Biomechanics, Ergonomics or a related discipline
- Associate Ergonomics Professional (AEP), Associate Ergonomist (AE) certification, or Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) is an asset
- Minimum of 1-2 years of industrial ergonomics or