Industrial Engineering Manager: Lean Factory Leader

Team Jobs - Engineering; Poole; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Team Jobs - Engineering in Poole, Dorset is seeking an Industrial Engineering Manager to lead an established team and drive improvements in productivity, labour efficiency, capacity and manufacturing flow. This hands-on leadership role focuses on how products are made and how production performs.

You’ll collaborate with Operations, Production, Quality and Supply Chain to deliver improvements in quality, cost and delivery, and support new product introductions and equipment into production.

Qualifications

• Experience leading industrial or manufacturing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of Lean, assembly operations and throughput improvement.
• Experience in automotive, drive systems or related mechanical products.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the Industrial Engineering team.
• Use manufacturing data, work measurement and labour standards to identify improvement opportunities.
• Improve factory layouts, material flow, line balance and capacity planning.
• Lead Lean and continuous improvement projects, tracking measures such as productivity, labour utilisation and OEE.
• Support new product introductions, automation and capital investment projects.

Skills

Team leadership

Lean manufacturing

Data analysis

OEE tracking

Automation projects

Education

Degree in engineering

Tools

Simulation software

Digital factory modelling

Job description

Team Jobs - Engineering in Poole, Dorset is seeking an Industrial Engineering Manager to lead an established team and drive improvements in productivity, labour efficiency, capacity and manufacturing flow. This hands-on leadership role focuses on how products are made and how production performs.

You’ll collaborate with Operations, Production, Quality and Supply Chain to deliver improvements in quality, cost and delivery, and support new product introductions and equipment into production.