Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing (35270)

The Industrial Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing CEC Facilities, LLC's  IMS manufacturing processes, material flow, labor productivity, facility utilization, and operational performance within an electrical manufacturing and modular prefabrication environment. This position develops efficient production systems that support electrical assemblies, panel skids, modular systems, and related fabricated products. The Industrial Engineer will partner with Production, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, Maintenance, and Project Management to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance. This role requires strong analytical skills combined with practical experience implementing improvements on the manufacturing floor.

• 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, switchgear 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.

Qualifications

• 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, switchgear, control panels, or skid-mounted equipment.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or similar continuous-improvement certification

Skills & Abilities

• 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

Work Environment & Physical Demands

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 switchgear room, manhole, utility tunnel, crawl space, or attic, in confined spaces, and on slippery or uneven surfaces; works on ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, in ditches and excavations; works in and around single and multi-story buildings with all exposures typical of a heavy construction site, including portable sanitary facilities.

• Must be able to bend, stoop, squat, crawl, climb, kneel, balance, push, pull and reach overhead. 
• Lift 50 pounds, routinely. Constantly move about on the feet. 
• Climb ladders of all types. 
• Complete full day assignments involving overhead work. 
• Must be able to make transition from employee parking area or street into construction work areas and to access all levels of the building, even if the only means of access is by O.S.H.A. approved site construction ladder or stairs still under construction, but acceptable for use.
• May require the ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• Possess good vision, normal or corrected. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision to discern color coded wires, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 
• Possess good hearing, normal or corrected. 
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, safety vest) at all times, or safety mask as necessary.
• Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night shifts, as needed. With some nights and weekends. 
• Must be able to work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.  

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.