Industrial Engineer

LOOS & CO., INC., 16B Mashamoquet Road, Pomfret, Connecticut, United States of America

As the only fully integrated m aker of premium quality wire, rope , and assemblies,
Loos & Co holds a leading position in the global aerospace sector.

A division of the Central Wire (CWI) Group of Companies encompassing 12 locations in three countries, 750+ employees, and over six decades of excellence, Loos & Co solutions are found in mission critical flight control applications. Our precision-manufactured components are also used for defense, med tech, and heavy industry purposes around the world, in large part because of the people behind our products .

If you have a passion for customer success and want to grow with a dynamic company that offers opportunities to reach your full potential, we want to hear from you.

The Industrial Engineer develops, validates, and maintains accurate labor and process standards for the manufacturing plant. Working in close partnership with the Senior Cost Accountant, the role traces estimates through ERP and costing systems, validates routings and assumptions through direct observation and time studies, and fact-checks system-generated costs against actual shop-floor conditions. The essential function is to apply industrial-engineering methods and independent technical judgment to improve the accuracy of product costs, labor standards, capacity assumptions, and operating decisions.

• Plan and conduct stopwatch, work-sampling, predetermined-motion-time, and other appropriate time studies; establish defensible standard times and document methods, allowances, assumptions, and observed conditions.
• Partner with the Senior Cost Accountant to vet material, labor, machine, burden, setup, scrap, yield, and overhead assumptions used in product cost estimates and standard costs.
• Trace estimates end to end through ERP, MRP, quoting, routing, bill-of-material, labor-reporting, and costing processes; identify data gaps, logic errors, duplicate assumptions, and disconnects between systems and actual operations.
• Validate bills of material, routings, work centers, run rates, setup times, crew sizes, yields, scrap factors, outside-processing steps, and production quantities through floor observation and data analysis.
• Reconcile engineered standards and system estimates to actual labor hours, machine hours, throughput, scrap, rework, and production performance; investigate material variances and recommend corrections.
• Develop and maintain labor standards, process maps, value-stream maps, capacity models, line-balance analyses, and standard-work documentation.
• Support cost-estimating and quoting activities by supplying verified cycle times, staffing assumptions, process sequences, equipment requirements, and capacity constraints.
• Analyze manufacturing processes to identify bottlenecks, non-value-added work, avoidable motion, excess handling, and opportunities to improve flow, productivity, quality, and cost.
• Coordinate with Operations, Finance, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Scheduling, IT, and Commercial teams to implement approved master-data, routing, and process changes.
• Create clear audit trails and change-control documentation for standards and cost inputs; support periodic standard-cost updates and post-implementation reviews.
• Prepare actionable analyses and recommendations for plant and finance leadership, including financial and operational impact, risks, implementation requirements, and expected results.
• Perform other related duties consistent with the role, grade, and business needs.

• Bachelor's degree or higher level in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field required.
• Three or more years of industrial engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, including direct responsibility for time studies and the development or validation of labor and process standards.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating routings, bills of material, cycle times, setup times, yields, scrap, throughput, capacity, and actual-versus-standard performance.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing cost drivers and the ability to partner effectively with cost accounting.
• Proficiency with ERP or MRP systems and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to work regularly on the manufacturing floor and to observe processes for extended periods, with or without reasonable accommodation.