Sr Industrial Engineer - Remote

Optum; Minnetonka (MN); Remote; USD 71,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Sr Industrial Engineer to enhance operational efficiency through innovative engineering solutions. This role offers the flexibility to work remotely while driving improvements in healthcare processes and outcomes. Join a diverse team dedicated to advancing health equity and making a positive impact on communities.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering fundamentals.
• 1+ years of experience applying statistical methods.
• Experience managing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing work standards and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate to deploy enterprise productivity tools.
• Develop innovative solutions using industrial engineering fundamentals.

Skills

Statistical Quality Control

Project Management

Business Intelligence

Process Mapping

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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.

The Sr Industrial Engineer understands the principles of statistical quality control, innovative ways to understand business intelligence, basic project management skills, and leading organizational change. You will bring your working knowledge of time studies, processing mapping, statistical modeling, and inferential statistics. You will get to help grow and develop our process engineering team into industry leaders in the healthcare field.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assigned operations, managing work standards, identifying cost savings, and other special engineering projects to drive cost efficiency and operational improvements


• Act as a liaison with other segments of Business Enablement to improve operational coordination and standardization


• Collaborate with other teams to deploy enterprise productivity tools


• Complete end-to-end business process activities that include reviewing, creating, controlling, and improving business processes


• 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 ensure project success


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


• Consult with organizational leaders on standard time measures, 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


• Improve workflows by studying process flowcharts, recommending modifications in workflow and work procedures


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


• Utilize your knowledge of statistical quality control principles, business intelligence innovation, project management, and organizational change

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals including documenting processes, process mapping, creating and deploying process documentation standards, and process documentation governance procedures


• 1+ years of experience applying statistical methods


• Experience managing multiple, simultaneous projects


• Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Power BI and / or SQL


• Experience with capacity planning


• Experience with data mining methods and optimization techniques


• Experience applying industrial engineering fundamentals in a service industry


• Experience as a change agent with demonstrated transformations in the process engineering domain


• Proven excellent communication, influencing, storytelling, change management, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $71,600 to $140,600 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.