Industrial Engineer III

Contract role, 6 months with possible extension. Onsite in Marion, OH. Pay range: $40–$45/hr.

About the role

The Industrial Engineer will play a key leadership role in driving productivity, optimizing manufacturing processes, and supporting cost accuracy across the organization. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining production standards, supporting level planning, and ensuring that costing routers accurately reflect true labor and process requirements. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of motion economy and its relationship to work elements, enabling efficient, ergonomic, and repeatable work methods across all operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide ways/methods to eliminate all types of waste in the production process
• Drive continuous improvement through detailed analytics
• Develop a project pipeline for cost takeout
• Lead time studies utilizing Modapts, a predetermined time analysis
• Use Line Balancing with the Yamazumi chart for line rate changes
• Identify Non-value add, Unbalanced, Value Add, and Semi Value Add activities
• Lead cost studies to determine the best product flow in the plant
• Support WPS implementation by providing leadership to continuous improvement teams
• Drive the plant to achieve short/long term labor productivity targets
• Support scoping of cost projects within the Findlay facility
• Ensure all new models/parts efficiently integrated into operations
• Develop and maintain equipment capacity information and planning
• Own all costing, routers, line balances, and labor utilization for the plant
• Support level loading across workstations and departments to balance production flow and capacity