Senior Manager, Industrial Engineering
About the role
IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC. The Sr. Manager, Industrial Engineering owns the analytical and performance backbone of IREN's industrialized delivery model — leading the Industrial Engineering and Operational Excellence functions, plus insource-versus-outsource decision analysis, to measure and continuously improve delivery performance. This role ensures the industrialized delivery program's performance is rigorously measured and that field and fabrication learnings are systematically fed back into design, standards, and sourcing decisions. With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.
Responsibilities
- Direct the Industrial Engineering lead's team in tracking and modeling on-site labor hours per MW as a leading indicator of delivery performance across all projects.
- Own manhour forecasting to support project planning, resourcing decisions, and portfolio-level labor productivity targets.
- Own the make-versus-buy analytical framework — the cost and capacity analysis determining whether a given module, subassembly, or scope of work should be built in-house or