Industrial Engineer - Telecommute US

Are you UHG's next Industrial Engineer?
 
UnitedHealthcare's Industrial Engineering specializes in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology, and consulting services that enable better decisions and performance. Your career will be greater at UnitedHealthcare through advancement, access to data, ability to impact the healthcare industry, and rewards for delivering on our mission; Helping People Live Healthier Lives.
 
This position is required to understand the principles of statistical quality control, innovative ways to understand business intelligence, basic project management skills, and lead organizational change.  A successful candidate will have a working knowledge of time studies, processing mapping, statistical modeling, and inferential statistics.  You will have a desire to grow and develop our process engineering team into industry leaders in the healthcare field.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

• Positions in this function are responsible for end-to-end business process activities reviewing, creating, controlling and improving business processes.


• Leads and manages customer readiness activities and project implementation teams in process improvement activities.


• Diagnose process improvement opportunities and develop solutions using industrial engineering fundamentals.


• Develop innovative solutions using industrial engineering fundamentals, advanced statistical models, development of new technologies, and common sense


• Assist leadership team in establishing project strategies, developing project plans, and cost/benefit analysis to ensuring project success.


• Provide analysis for identifying business requirements, specifications, design requirements, and testing efforts for process improvement, technical, and analytical projects.


• Consult organizational leaders on standard time measures; manage work study and work analysis, analysis of work samples, and developing methods of measuring work performance.


• Apply statistical modeling and perform mathematical methods to determine account level operational process performance and staffing requirements.


• Improves work flow by studying process flowcharts, recommending modifications in work flow and work procedures.


• Recommend methods for improving utilization of personnel, deployment of technology, and tool development.


• Manages junior level Industrial Engineers and peer team members at the sub-project level, monitors goals and workflow, and is responsible for providing feedback on the performance.
  

This position is required to understand the principles of statistical quality control, innovative ways to understand business intelligence, basic project management skills, and assist organizational change.

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial or Systems Engineering or Engineering/Mathematics degree with 2 years of process/industrial engineering experience. OR HS Diploma/GED with 5 years of process/industrial engineering experience can be substituted for a degree.


• Minimum 2 years of experience in applying industrial engineering fundamentals


• Experience with documenting processes, implementing process improvement projects, and creating process documentation standards.


• Experience performing time studies or work standards management.


• Experience applying statistical methods.


• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Access, MiniTab, Visio and PowerPoint.


• Excellent communication, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills.


• Up to 10% travel.

Preferred:

• Six Sigma Certification, Green Belt


• Demonstrable leadership experience.


• Experience with data mining methods, statistical modeling, and optimization techniques.


• Experience with a programming language.


• Experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals in a service industry preferred.


• Experience working with external BPO or KPO organizations


• Intermediate level of proficiency with PC based modeling and simulation software.

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 17 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that's second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can do your life's best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.




UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.