Industrial Engineer – Battery Manufacturing
About The Position
We are seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to support battery manufacturing operations, capital projects, production readiness, and continuous improvement in a high-volume manufacturing environment. This position will focus on designing, analyzing, improving, and documenting manufacturing systems and processes to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and operational efficiency. A key part of this position is developing and maintaining clear, repeatable engineering processes. Responsibilities include creating and improving engineering standards and procedures, technical guides and specifications, work instructions and process maps, check sheets and templates, training materials, equipment acceptance and commissioning documentation, and lessons learned and process-control documentation. The position will also support document control, revision management, technical reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production systems, or closely related experience.
- Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing, automated production, equipment implementation, or manufacturing-system improvement.
- Hands-on experience with capacity planning.
- Hands-on experience with time studies.
- Hands-on experience with line balancing.
- Hands-on experience with labor planning.
- Hands-on experience with bottleneck analysis.
- Hands-on experience with production/facility layouts.
- Hands-on experience with material flow.
- Hands-on experience with standardized work.
- Experience developing or significantly revising engineering procedures, standards, specifications, technical manuals, or training materials.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and manufacturing data-analysis skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong technical-writing skills.
- Strong project-management skills.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with automotive or battery manufacturing.
- Experience with battery cell, module, or pack production.
- Experience with high-volume automated manufacturing.
- Experience with greenfield startups or brownfield modifications.
- Experience with equipment commissioning, launch, or production ramp-up.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, Python, Minitab, or Tableau.
- Experience with FlexSim, AnyLogic, Plant Simulation, digital twins, or similar modeling tools.
- Experience with Toyota Production System (TPS).
- Experience with Kaizen, PDCA, A3, TBP, JKK, or value-stream mapping.
- Experience with engineering standards/governance and lessons-learned systems.
Responsibilities
- Analyze production requirements and develop efficient manufacturing concepts.
- Improve production flow, material flow, staffing, work balance, and equipment/facility layouts.
- Perform cycle-time studies, line balancing, bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, and utilization analysis.
- Develop capacity models and evaluate labor, equipment, shift, and production requirements.
- Lead and support Kaizen and continuous-improvement activities.
- Perform structured root-cause analysis and implement sustainable countermeasures.
- Develop manufacturing KPIs, dashboards, reports, and executive summaries.
- Analyze manufacturing data to identify trends, losses, constraints, and opportunities.
- Support equipment installation, commissioning, trials, production readiness, ramp-up, and handover.
- Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Facilities, vendors, contractors, and engineering teams.
- Create and improve engineering standards and procedures.
- Create and improve technical guides and specifications.
- Create and improve work instructions and process maps.
- Create and improve check sheets and templates.
- Create and improve training materials.
- Create and improve equipment acceptance and commissioning documentation.
- Create and improve lessons learned and process-control documentation.
- Support document control, revision management, technical reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
