Industrial Engineer

The Industrial Engineer will play a central role in establishing and maintaining accurate labor standards through time studies, while also improving process flow, part routings, and costing accuracy. Responsibilities include performing time and motion studies, developing and maintaining labor standards, assisting in the design of efficient work cells, and creating clear work instructions for production employees.

Responsibilities

• Lead the plant’s time study program, ensuring accurate and consistent labor standards across operations
• Perform detailed time and motion studies on production processes to establish and validate labor standards

• Optimize end-to-end process flow across manufacturing operations
• Analyze and improve plant layouts, machine placement, and material movement
• Control, audit, and continuously improve part routings within the ERP system
• Identify bottlenecks and implement sustainable throughput improvements
• Lead plant-wide efficiency initiatives aligned with safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals

• Use time study data to ensure labor assumptions in costing models reflect real production performance
• Apply DMAIC methodology to eliminate waste and improve margins

• Create, maintain, and improve SOPs and work instructions
• Ensure time studies are completed timely and annual routing audits are executed
• Implement systems thinking to improve plant-wide coordination
• Improve tracking of downtime, OEE, capacity utilization, and routing accuracy

• Support new product introduction with accurate routings and labor standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, or Systems Engineering or related field preferred
• 3+ years of manufacturing experience (metal casting or machining preferred)
• Demonstrated proficiency in: Time & Motion Studies and ERP systems and part routing control