The Department

MAIN FIELDS

THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER

S/he is essentially a production manager with an internationally-oriented outlook. S/he is able to conceive, establish and control complex industrial systems while considering the whole technical, organizational, financial and human dimensions.

The skills involved serve to enhance performance, safety and quality.

His/her personal evolution will lead him/her to take on more and more responsibilities. S/he must then, be able to accompany and lead collaborators towards the aims by implementing human relations qualities to explain, convince, justify, control...

S/he is able to:

  • Model the process of any activity (industrial, logistics and tertiary) ;
  • Design and size systems required for a given activity of production, service, distribution...;
  • Identify and correct discrepancies in a continuous improvement process (material, human and information systems) by the implementation of analytical and simulation tools ;
  • Manage and configurate of supplies and purchases for single, serial or continuous productions ;
  • Lead any type of project (management of teams, resources, budget, customers and suppliers) at all levels (operational, strategic, transverse or pilot) ;
  • Initiate and manage innovations and direct change ;
  • Ensure quality reporting through the establishment of appropriate indicators, based on a systemic view of organizations (matrix, silo, and project) for any scope and any type of activity ;
  • Enhance, protect and sustain the expertise of entities in the activity scope;
  • Understand the social and financial part of business management.

School SKILLS: specific IE

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND SUPPLY CHAIN

  • Observe, measure, analyze and interpret an event or a system from data ;
  • Modeling, designing a system of information, making and production of goods and services;
  • To evaluate, prototype and simulate a system ;
  • Sizing the hardware and / or software of a system ;
  • Operating a system of production and respond to malfunctions ;
  • Select appropriate production tools, integrate them into an environment and configure, and set up a production system ;
  • Develop and implement a purchasing strategy ;
  • Pilot supplies in connection with the planning and inventory management policy ;
  • Locate and assign the production, storage and transportation to different members of the supply chain.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

  • Develop and implement an action plan as part of a quality approach and continuous improvement ;
  • Understand and evaluate a structure globally, through socio-economic frames of reference ;
  • Changing organizations to meet new constraints or opportunities ;
  • Taking into account the technological and methodological innovation.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • Operating collectively project: organization, communication, entertainment, group coordination ;
  • Operating a project based on a master plan (planning, budgeting, definition of monitoring indicators) ;
  • Identify, analyze and control the risks inherent to a project ;
  • Identify and sign contracts formalize the needs of a client, follow their progress and validate compliance (traceability requirements).

MAN AND ORGANIZATION

  • Identify the critical skills and knowledge of an organization and implement tools and methods to sustain them;
  • Conduct a socio-organizational analysis to better understand the effects of change and to adapt strategies ;
  • Implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).