Senior Industrial Engineer

Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.

The Senior Industrial Engineer is responsible for making the KARNO production system measurable and then making it better. This position owns capacity and takt modeling, line balancing and standard work, layout and material flow design, and constraint elimination across core assembly, power module integration, the linear electric motor build, and the subassembly cells that feed them.

As Cedar Park becomes the production home of the KARNO Power Module, this position takes the footprint from a set of individually capable work areas to a connected, balanced flow that produces at a published, credible rate — where takt is defined, the constraint is known rather than argued about, work content at each station is measured, material arrives where it is used, and adding rate is a planned move rather than a scramble.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role on the Manufacturing Engineering team, partnering daily with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and Design Engineering, with substantial time spent on the floor with the technicians who do the work.

At Hyliion, AI is core to how we work. We equip every team member with leading AI tools and count on you to use them — to move faster, solve harder problems, and help us realize the full potential of KARNO technology for the world.

• Capacity and Takt Modeling
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  Build and maintain the capacity model across all four production areas — demonstrated versus theoretical capacity, station-level cycle times, labor content per unit, and the constraint. Keep it current and honest, and make it the number the organization plans against.
• Line Balancing and Standard Work
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  Conduct time studies and work measurement, establish defensible labor standards, and balance work content across stations to takt. Own the routings and standard times in the ERP so planning, costing, and scheduling all draw from the same source.
• Layout and Flow Design
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  Design the floor layouts for the production areas as they stand up and as they grow — material flow and travel distance analysis, point-of-use presentation, workstation and cell design, and layouts that accommodate the next rate step rather than requiring a rebuild to reach it.
• Material Flow and Pull Systems
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  Design and implement pull systems with Supply Chain and Production Control — kanban sizing, supermarket and point-of-use stocking, min/max levels, kitting strategy, and WIP caps that expose problems instead of hiding them.
• Constraint Elimination and Continuous Improvement
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  Run the improvement cycle: value stream mapping, kaizen events, A3 problem solving, changeover reduction, and 5S. Quantify the value of each change before implementation and verify what it delivered afterward.
• Metrics, Analytics, and Visibility
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  Build the reporting that shows how the system is actually performing — throughput, first-pass yield, labor efficiency, station utilization, WIP, and cycle time — sourced from ERP and shop floor data rather than hand-maintained spreadsheets.
• Cost Modeling and Capital Justification
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  Model cost per unit and labor content, and build the justification for material handling equipment, workstations, and tooling that improves flow. Take capital from business case through installation to qualified and in use.
• Hyliion Production System
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  Help build out the Hyliion Production System — the standard practices, visual management, and tiered accountability that make good performance…