Industrial Engineer - General Assembly

Join a manufacturing leader with over 50 years of excellence, where every role contributes to building reliable transportation solutions that people depend on everyday across the United States and Canada. At ENC, we prioritize safety, quality, innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth - creating vehicles our teams can take pride in.

Founded in 1975, ENC (ElDorado National - California) is a leading U.S. transportation manufacturer specializing in design, engineering, and end-to-end production of heavy-duty buses, shuttles, and cargo vehicles through a custom-build, mixed-model assembly process. Each vehicle is produced in our purpose-built facility in Riverside, California supporting public agencies and private transportation providers nationwide. We offer one of the industry's widest portfolios of power options, including 100% battery-electric, diesel-electric hybrid, CNG, and clean diesel.

ENC is committed to revitalizing American manufacturing through innovation, customer focus, and the delivery of high-quality vehicles that keep communities connected, supported, and moving forward.

Industrial Engineer - General Assembly

Location:
Riverside, CA

Salary Range: $105,000 - $130,000/year

Summary
As an Industrial Engineer supporting ENC's General Assembly operations, you will play a critical role in driving efficiency, standardization, and continuous improvement on the factory floor. This position combines hands-on involvement in daily operations with strong analytical capabilities to optimize takt time, manpower planning, and production performance. You will partner closely with supervisors, team leads, and cross-functional teams to establish standard work, prepare for digital system implementations, and deliver measurable operational improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain takt-time targets and station-level manpower plans, ensuring balanced production lines as volume and product mix evolve.

• Conduct detailed time studies and motion analyses to validate standard work, identify process inefficiencies, and eliminate waste.

• Build and manage production performance dashboards in Excel and Power BI, tracking throughput, OEE proxies, bottlenecks, and WIP trends.

• Lead and facilitate Kaizen events, driving cross-functional problem-solving and sustaining improvements through 5S audits and visual management practices.

• Collaborate with operations teams to write and refine work instructions, ensuring alignment with digital work instruction and MES system readiness.

• Conduct daily gemba walks to identify production issues, prioritize improvement opportunities, and drive impactful CI projects.

• Support PFEP and material presentation strategies to align with cell designs, kitting, and supermarket systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in industrial engineering within assembly manufacturing environments.

• Proven expertise in time studies, standard work development, and line balancing.

• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups) with the ability to create and maintain basic dashboards in Power BI or Tableau.

• Strong communication skills and a comfort level working primarily on the factory floor alongside operators and leadership.

• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing tools, including A3 problem solving, DMAIC, value stream mapping, and 5S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MES or digital work instruction systems through selection, piloting, or deployment phases.

• Background in bus/coach, truck, heavy equipment, or automotive final assembly environments.

• Certification or formal training in MOST, MTM, MODAPTS, or equivalent time measurement systems.

Tools & Systems

• Advanced Excel;
Power BI or Tableau for performance visualization (preferred).

• Familiarity with AutoCAD for reviewing and updating simple layout drawings.

• Use of timer applications, video analysis, and standard industrial engineering toolkits for time and motion studies.

• Experience with SharePoint, Smartsheet, or Jira for action tracking and project management is a plus.

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