Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing

Job Details:

Job Location:

Irving, TX 75061, Position Type:
Full Time, Travel Percentage:
None, Job Shift: First, Job Category:
Other, Position Summary

• Develop and optimize facility layouts, production cells, assembly lines, storage areas, and material-flow paths.
• Analyze production processes, workflows, labor requirements, and material movement to identify improvement opportunities.
• Conduct time studies, work sampling, line-balancing analysis, and process observations.
• Support manufacturing processes for electrical assemblies, modular electrical systems, panel skids, switch gear components, conduit assemblies, and related products.
• Develop value-stream maps and recommend improvements that reduce waste, travel distance, handling, waiting time, and work-in-process inventory.
• Lead Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement initiatives, including 5S/6S, visual management, Kaizen events, root-cause analysis, and mistake-proofing.
• Identify production constraints and recommend equipment, tooling, automation, workstation, and process improvements.
• Assist with capital-equipment justification through cost-benefit analysis, labor savings, capacity improvements, and return-on-investment calculations.
• Support new-product introduction by reviewing drawings, bills of material, routing requirements, tooling needs, and production readiness.
• Create and maintain process documentation, work instructions, standard operating procedures, process-flow diagrams, and training materials.
• Collaborate with Quality to improve first-pass yield, reduce defects, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with Logistics and Purchasing to improve material presentation, point-of-use storage, replenishment systems, kitting, and vendor-managed inventory programs.
• Support ergonomic assessments and develop solutions that reduce employee fatigue and workplace injury risks.
• Assist Operations leadership with production planning, manpower forecasting, capacity analysis, and make-versus-buy evaluations.
• Participate in safety reviews, risk assessments, and compliance activities.
• Provide technical support during facility expansions, equipment installations, production transfers, and manufacturing-system implementations.
• Monitor implemented improvements and verify that expected operational and financial results are sustained.

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline required.
• 3+ years of industrial engineering or manufacturing-process improvement experience.
• Experience in electrical manufacturing, modular construction, electrical prefabrication, switch gear, control panels, or skid-mounted equipment.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or similar continuous-improvement certification

• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Visio, or similar facility-layout and process-mapping software.
• Knowledge of engineered labor standards, cost estimating, capacity modeling, and capital-project justification.
• Familiarity with OSHA requirements, ergonomic standards, and manufacturing safety practices.
• Ability to work effectively with employees at all organizational levels, including production-floor personnel and senior leadership.
• Experience supporting a new facility launch, production transfer, or major manufacturing expansion.
• Experience developing operational reporting tools

May work inside or outside. Possible exposure to hot and cold temperatures, in all-weather elements such as rain, heat, cold and snow. This position also requires work at extreme heights, in areas that are under construction, or in restricted areas such as a switch gear room, manhole, utility tunnel, crawl space, or attic, in…