Industrial Engineer

Soulshine Farms•Gainesville, GA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

SoulShine Farms is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to improve productivity, labor efficiency, equipment reliability, and facility operations within our poultry-processing facilities. This hands-on role combines industrial engineering, labor optimization, maintenance planning, and CAD drafting.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
At least ten (10) years of experience in industrial engineering, maintenance planning, manufacturing engineering, or a related role.
Experience conducting time studies, establishing labor standards, and balancing production lines.
Proficiency with AutoCAD or comparable CAD software.
Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, maintenance planning, and CMMS systems.
Strong Microsoft Excel, data analysis, and reporting skills.
Ability to read technical drawings, equipment manuals, and process diagrams.
Strong problem-solving, organizational, communication, and project-management skills.
Ability to work collaboratively within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Ability to hear, speak, read, and comprehend communications in English.
Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience in poultry, meat processing, food manufacturing, or another high-volume production environment.
Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, standard work, or Six Sigma.
Familiarity with food safety, OSHA requirements, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and sanitary design.
Experience with labor-management software, predetermined-time standards, or other work-measurement systems.
Knowledge of equipment reliability, root-cause analysis, and preventive-maintenance optimization.
Experience developing plant layouts, fabrication drawings, piping drawings, or utility drawings.

Responsibilities

Conduct time-and-motion studies throughout production, packaging, sanitation, warehousing, and support operations.
Establish and maintain labor standards by product, process, production line, and SKU.
Analyze staffing needs based on production volumes, product mix, equipment capacity, and operating conditions.
Balance production lines to reduce bottlenecks, waiting time, unnecessary movement, and idle time.
Compare actual labor hours and productivity against established standards.
Recommend improvements to work methods, staffing models, plant layouts, and material flow.
Develop and monitor productivity measures such as pounds, pieces, or cases per labor hour.
Support labor budgeting, forecasting, overtime reduction, and cost-improvement initiatives.
Validate and track labor savings following implementation of improvement projects.
Develop detailed preventive and corrective maintenance work plans.
Define job scope, labor needs, required parts and tools, safety precautions, and estimated completion times.
Coordinate planned maintenance with production, sanitation, maintenance, and parts-room personnel.
Maintain equipment records, bills of materials, job plans, and preventive-maintenance procedures within the CMMS.
Support weekly maintenance scheduling, equipment shutdowns, and planned project work.
Review equipment history and recurring failures to improve reliability and maintenance strategies.
Help improve schedule compliance, wrench time, equipment availability, and parts readiness.
Create and maintain CAD drawings for production lines, equipment, utilities, piping, facilities, and plant layouts.
Prepare equipment-placement, process-flow, fabrication, installation, and conceptual layout drawings.
Update drawings following equipment moves, facility modifications, and capital projects.
Measure existing conditions and support planning of facility and process improvements.
Maintain an accurate and organized library of plant drawings and technical documents.
Work with vendors, contractors, engineers, and plant personnel to verify accuracy of drawings.