ANNEX I – Entry Level Competency Standards for an Industrial Engineer
Duties
Professional
Courses
Competencies / Skills
Balance work
loads
Evaluate task,
tool, equipment,
workplace and
environmental
risk factors
Formulate
safety programs
and enforce
work safety
practices
1
Establish
work and
safety
standards
2
Perform
production
planning,
Forecast
scheduling, demand
and control
functions
Identify
manufacturing
processes and
calculate
manufacturing
parameters
Plan production
control
measures
Schedule and
sequence
production
operations
3
Design and
implement
quality
assurance
systems
Perform
capability
analysis and
acceptance
sampling plans
Analyze
processes and
measure
component and
system
reliability
Design and
implement
quality systems
for continuous
improvement
Perform time
studies and
develop time
standards
Implement
Statistical
Process Control
principles
Design
incentive and
compensation
systems
Methods Study,
Ergonomics
Industrial
Materials and
Processes,
Production
Systems
Perform quality
audits
Industrial
Quality Control
Electives
Job Evaluation
and Salary and
Wage
Administration,
Personnel
Management,
Occupational
Safety and
Health,
Cognitive
Engineering,
Risk
Management
Lean
Manufacturing,
Stochastic
Processes in
Engineering,
Multi-Criteria
Decision
Making, Project
Management,
Packaging
Technology
Total Quality
Management,
Six Sigma
Duties
Professional
Courses
Competencies / Skills
4
Prepare
logistics
plan
Design
inventory
control systems
Design
warehousing
operations
Design
distribution
network and
fleet
management
5
Draw up
facilities
design and
layout
Calculate
resource and
space
requirements
Optimize flow of
resources,
materials,
people, and
information
Select method
for materials
handling
6
Develop
efficient
information
systems
Conduct
systems
analysis to
define
information
requirements
Formulate
systems and
procedures,
forms flow and
design
Identify
appropriate
data collection
and processing
systems
7
Conduct
research
and
development
Formulate the
appropriate
design of
experiment
Undertake an
experiment
Analyze and
validate data
Operations
Research 1,
Operations
Research 2
Conduct
capacity and
process flow
analysis
Plan, design,
and implement
a computerbased
information
system
Draw
conclusions and
recommendations from the
results of the
experiment
Facilities
Planning and
Design
Write and
present
technical
reports
Electives
Enterprise
Resource
Planning,
Supply Chain
Management
Strategic
Planning,
ComputerAided
Manufacturing,
Total
Productive
Maintenance
and Reliability,
Energy
Management
Systems
Engineering,
Information
Systems
Computer
Applications in
IE, Systems
Simulation
Advanced
Statistics,
Project
Feasibility,
Undergraduate
Research
Product Design
and
Development,
Special Topics
in IE, Special
Problems in IE