Manufacturing Industrial Engineer

Butcher Power Products•Sacramento, CA

12h

About The Position

The Manufacturing Industrial Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for analyzing, designing, and continuously improving the end-to-end production flow across the mechanical assembly facility. This role applies industrial engineering principles to eliminate waste, reduce cycle time, and increase throughput. The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering experience, a proven track record of measurable operational improvement, and ideally significant experience designing or launching a manufacturing facility or production line from the ground up. The role owns the efficiency and flow of the complete production value stream: Parts Incoming to Assembly to Testing / QC to Shipping.

Requirements

B.S. in Industrial Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
7+ years of IE or manufacturing engineering experience in a mechanical assembly environment.
Hands-on proficiency in VSM, time study, line balancing, and standard work development.
Strong data analysis and visualization skills (Excel, Power BI, or equivalent).
Experience building production schedules and modeling capacity.
Ability to read mechanical drawings and interpret BOMs.
Demonstrated record of driving change through influence, not authority.
Familiarity with ERP / MES systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing or launching a new manufacturing facility or production line from the ground up (strongly preferred).
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
Experience in high-mix / low-volume or mixed-model assembly environments.
Familiarity with ISO 9001 QMS requirements.
ERP / MES experience (SAP, NetSuite, JobBoss, or similar).
Discrete-event simulation experience (Arena, FlexSim).
AutoCAD or equivalent for facility layout work.

Responsibilities

Conduct value stream mapping, time studies, and capacity analyses across all production stages; translate findings into actionable improvements in workstation layout, routing, and material flow.
Lead or contribute to facility and floor layout design, including workstation placement, material flow paths, point-of-use storage, and aisle configuration to support efficient production at scale.
Develop and maintain the master production schedule in collaboration with department managers; model capacity scenarios and recommend priority adjustments to protect on-time delivery.
Partner with the receiving manager to ensure material flow from dock to point-of-use is timely and traceable; quantify schedule impact of inbound shortages or non-conformances.
Establish and document standard work, takt time, and operator balance charts for assembly operations; identify and resolve bottlenecks in coordination with the assembly manager.
Analyze test cell utilization and rework rates; work with quality management to reduce cycle time through improved test sequencing and failure feedback loops.
Align finished goods completion timing with outbound freight windows; monitor dock-to-ship cycle time and surface systemic delays to the shipping manager.
Initiate and facilitate kaizen events, 5S programs, and waste-reduction projects across the value stream; track and report cost and time savings delivered to the Plant Manager.
Build and maintain the operational performance dashboard; present throughput, cycle time, yield, and delivery metrics to department managers and the Plant Manager with root-cause commentary.
Lead daily and weekly production cadence meetings; serve as the integrating function between departments to surface and resolve sequencing conflicts, resource gaps, and handoff failures.
Evaluate workstation ergonomics and tooling adequacy; recommend changes that improve both safety and efficiency in collaboration with EHS and department managers.