Manufacturing Industrial Engineer

About the Role

A senior individual contributor role responsible for analyzing, designing, and continuously improving the end-to-end production flow across the mechanical assembly facility. This position reports directly to the Executive Vice President and applies industrial engineering principles to eliminate waste, reduce cycle time, and increase throughput in partnership with department managers in receiving, assembly, quality/test, and shipping.

Responsibilities

• Flow analysis & design: Conduct value stream mapping, time studies, and capacity analyses across all production stages; translate findings into actionable improvements in workstation layout, routing, and material flow.
• Facility & layout planning: Lead or contribute to facility and floor layout design, including workstation placement, material flow paths, point-of-use storage, and aisle configuration to support efficient production at scale.
• Production scheduling support: Develop and maintain the master production schedule in collaboration with department managers; model capacity scenarios and recommend priority adjustments to protect on-time delivery.
• Incoming parts / receiving: Partner with the receiving manager to ensure material flow from dock to point-of-use is timely and traceable; quantify schedule impact of inbound shortages or non-conformances.
• Assembly process engineering: Establish and document standard work, takt time, and operator balance charts for assembly operations; identify and resolve bottlenecks in coordination with the assembly manager.
• Test & QC throughput: Analyze test cell utilization and rework rates; work with quality management to reduce cycle time through improved test sequencing and failure feedback loops.
• Shipping coordination: Align finished goods completion timing with outbound freight windows; monitor dock-to-ship cycle time and surface systemic delays to the shipping manager.
• Continuous improvement leadership: Initiate and facilitate kaizen events, 5S programs, and waste-reduction projects across the value stream; track and report cost and time savings delivered to the Plant Manager.
• KPI ownership & reporting: Build and maintain the operational performance dashboard; present throughput, cycle time, yield, and delivery metrics to department managers and the Plant Manager with root-cause commentary.
• Cross-functional facilitation: Lead daily and weekly production cadence meetings; serve as the integrating function between departments to surface and resolve sequencing conflicts, resource gaps, and handoff failures.
• Tooling & ergonomics: Evaluate workstation ergonomics and tooling adequacy; recommend changes that improve both safety and efficiency in collaboration with EHS and department managers.

Key Performance Indicators

• On-time delivery (OTD %)
• First-Pass Yield (FPY %)
• Cycle Time vs Takt
• WIP Level (Days on hand)
• Throughput (Units / day)
• Continuous Improvement Savings ($ / Quarter)

Requirements

• B.S. in Industrial Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• 7+ years of IE or manufacturing engineering experience in a mechanical assembly environment.
• Hands-on proficiency in VSM, time study, line balancing, and standard work development.
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills (Excel, Power BI, or equivalent).
• Experience building production schedules and modeling capacity.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings and interpret BOMs.
• Demonstrated record of driving change through influence, not authority.
• Familiarity with ERP / MES systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing or launching a new manufacturing facility or production line from the ground up (strongly preferred).
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
• Experience in high-mix / low-volume or mixed-model assembly environments.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 QMS requirements.
• ERP / MES experience (SAP, NetSuite, JobBoss, or similar).
• Discrete-event simulation experience (Arena, FlexSim).
• AutoCAD or equivalent for facility layout work.

Core Competencies

• Systems thinking: Sees the whole value stream, not just individual workstations; understands how upstream decisions affect downstream performance.
• Analytical rigor: Backs all recommendations with data; communicates findings clearly to both floor-level and executive audiences.
• Collaborative influence: Achieves results through structured partnership with department managers rather than direct authority.
• Bias for action: Identifies problems quickly and drives solutions without waiting for direction from above.
• Facility-level perspective: Thinks in terms of flow, space, and scale; experienced in designing layouts that serve long-term operational needs.