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Engineering Management
Mission Statement:
The Mission of the Engineering Management squad is to complement the Statewide Value Engineering Program through
the professional application of Industrial Engineering principles and techniques. This squad's primary goal is
to minimize expenditures and maximize productivity in all areas of operations. In accomplishing this, the design,
improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, and equipment shall be achieved.
Introduction:
In the performance of our duties as State Employees, the sanctity of the taxpayer (external customer) dollar is
of utmost importance. The fulfillment of our public service comes with taxpayer approval of our finished product
and our method of arriving at it. The Engineering Management squad will seek out new ways to help upper management
accomplish their objectives in the most economical manner without reducing the necessary standards of the finished
product and staying within the schedules established in the Transportation Improvement Program.
- Pinpoint hidden waste using industrial engineering techniques.
- Identify potential areas for improving productivity.
- Identify ways to eliminate unproductive practices.
- Investigate potential areas of cost improvement and recommend changes in methods and procedures to improve cost-savings.
- Apply Industrial Engineering concepts to maximize productivity and minimize expenditures through the efficient
utilization of resources(manpower, equipment, materials and facilities).
- Assist upper management establish controls and identify methods to implement an adequate system of budget control.
- Assist Highway Design Branch, middle and first line management to become "cost conscious" by designing
a mandatory cost improvement training class.
- Conduct feasibility studies to facilitate upper management decision making.
- Investigate the opportunity to implement Total Quality Management Program throughout the Department of Transportation.
With strong upper management support we suggest that the successful application
of skills provided by this squad will provide the following benefits:
- Information concerning each Unit's operating costs will be readily available for management review.
- Upper Management can be provided with adequate information to enable better planning decisions and the ability
to quickly identify the potential for excessive costs.
- Upper Management can be provided with accurate information concerning "Dollar's Lost" through idle
employees, equipment, excessive quantities of office supplies and other types of supplies.
- The flow of paper work can be routinely checked to determine the best and most economical flow.
- Programs to encourage and reward outstanding individual and team efforts can be investigated.
- Standardized tests can be designed to help determine an employee's best capabilities prior to hiring.
- Flow charts can be established for routine and complex operations, indicating mandays needed for each task.
- Costs can be investigated and possibly cut in the area of storing and transporting blue prints within the Department
of Transportation
- Cost effective preventive maintenance programs for our machines (PC's, CADD, reproduction machines, photocopiers)
can be investigated.
- Standardized operations can be investigated and possibly improved.
- New time saving technological developments will be analyzed for our project design process. Increased productivity
through computerization can be quantified.
- Manager's effectiveness at gaining employee "ownership" in assignments can be improved.
- Bottlenecks in the project design flow process can be identified thus allowing the process to be improved.
- The efficiency with which our present staff in the Design Branch is being utilized can be objectively examined.
Conclusion:
Increasing productivity in such a large organization requires long range planning, upper management support and
commitment, and employee willingness to accept change. It is essential to examine all opportunities and all available
resources in order to increase the efficiency and the effectiveness of this organization.
Our goal is to create a customer oriented, more efficient and more productive environment that incorporates internal
and external customer needs and expectations into the design process and control systems
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