Industrial Engineer

Pacer Group; Liberty (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Pacer Group is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to support battery manufacturing operations, capital projects, production readiness, and continuous improvement. The role focuses on manufacturing system design, capacity and labor planning, data analytics, process stabilization, equipment integration, and development of engineering standards and technical documentation.

Responsibilities include leading kaizen, developing KPIs and dashboards, supporting equipment integration, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industrial/manufacturing engineering experience.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing and automated production.
• Hands-on capacity planning, time studies, line balancing, labor planning, bottleneck analysis.
• Ability to build analytical models with inputs, assumptions, formulas, outputs, and sensitivity analysis.
• Experience developing engineering standards, procedures, and training materials.
• Experience with document control and standards governance.
• Advanced Excel skills and manufacturing data analysis/visualization.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve production and material flows, staffing, layouts, and manufacturing systems.
• Perform cycle-time studies, bottleneck analysis, line balancing, utilization analysis, and capacity modeling.
• Lead kaizen events, root-cause analysis, problem solving, and process stabilization.
• Develop KPIs, dashboards, reports, and executive summaries from production data and trends.
• Support equipment specification, installation, trials, readiness, ramp-up, and handover.
• Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Facilities, vendors, and engineering teams.
• Manage project schedules, action tracking, risk registers, and cross-functional issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, procedures, technical guides, process maps, and training materials.
• Support document control, revision management, technical reviews, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Capacity planning

Line balancing

Data analytics

Excel modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Manufacturing engineering

Education

Bachelors in IE/ME/Eng

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

Minitab

Tableau

FlexSim

AnyLogic

Plant Simulation

Job description

Seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to support battery manufacturing operations, capital projects, production readiness, and continuous improvement. The role focuses on manufacturing system design, capacity and labor planning, data analytics, process stabilization, equipment integration, and development of engineering standards and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve production flow, material flow, staffing, work balance, facility/equipment layouts, and manufacturing systems.
• Perform cycle-time studies, bottleneck analysis, line balancing, utilization analysis, capacity modeling, and labor planning.
• Lead/support kaizen, root-cause analysis, structured problem solving, process stabilization, and recurrence prevention.
• Develop KPIs, dashboards, reports, and executive summaries; analyze production data, variation, losses, constraints, and trends.
• Support equipment specification, installation, commissioning, trials, production readiness, ramp-up, and handover.
• Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Facilities, vendors, contractors, and engineering teams.
• Manage project schedules, action tracking, risk registers, readiness criteria, and cross-functional issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, procedures, technical guides, check sheets, templates, process maps, and training materials.
• Support document control, revision management, technical reviews, approvals, knowledge transfer, and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production systems, or related experience.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing, automated production, equipment implementation, or manufacturing system improvement.
• Hands‑on experience with capacity planning, time studies, line balancing, labor planning, bottleneck analysis, layouts, material flow, and standardized work.
• Ability to build transparent analytical models with defined inputs, assumptions, formulas, outputs, and sensitivity analysis.
• Demonstrated experience developing engineering standards, procedures, specifications, technical manuals, playbooks, or training materials.
• Experience with document control, revision management, technical reviews, and standards governance.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with manufacturing data analysis/visualization.
• Strong technical writing, communication, project ownership, and cross‑functional problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work in a manufacturing plant environment and support implementation activities.

Preferred

• Automotive, battery cell/module/pack, clean room, dry room, formation, or high‑volume automated manufacturing experience.
• Greenfield/brownfield projects, equipment commissioning, launch, or ramp‑up experience.
• Power BI, SQL, Python, Minitab, Tableau, or equivalent analytics tools.
• FlexSim, AnyLogic, Plant Simulation, digital twin, or discrete‑event simulation experience.
• Experience with Lean/TPS, standardized work, kaizen, PDCA, A3, TBP, JKK, value‑stream mapping, or similar methods.
• Experience training/mentoring engineers and facilitating cross‑functional improvement activities.

BENEFITS :

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

EEOC Compliance

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

DISCLAIMER

AI Usage Policy: Pacer Group uses AI to assist in screening applications. Final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters based on qualifications and experience.