INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER

Nidec Corporation; St. Charles (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nidec Corporation is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer in Illinois to lead the manufacturing process design for new product launches. You will act as the project manager and team lead, bridging design engineering and full-scale production to implement cost-effective systems on time and within budget.

The role requires coordinating cross-functional teams, managing the project lifecycle, and ensuring milestones are met while adhering to PFMEA/DFMEA standards and cost controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, process engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering or process engineering, with a focus on new product launch.

Responsibilities

• Process Design: Design and develop comprehensive manufacturing processes for new products, ensuring equipment requirements are fully aligned with product specifications and capacity requirements.
• Project Management: Manage the entire project lifecycle, including organizing and leading cross-functional meetings, facilitating technical design reviews, and driving accountability across stakeholders.
• Capacity Planning: Analyze and determine capacity requirements, ensuring alignment with production volume forecasts and efficiency targets.
• New Business quotation: Understand costs associated with manufacturing equipment and labor needed to quote new business opportunities

Skills

Project Management

PFMEA/DFMEA

Budget & Cost Tracking

Communication

Automation in Manufacturing

Automotive Electronics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, process engineering, or related field

Job description

We begin with dreams. Dreams drive our motivation. Dreams are our future. The world's dreams, people's dreams, our dreams. Our passion creates ideas that make dreams come alive. Technology and products that were only dreams become reality. All for dreams. Dreams challenge and the Nidec-Group will continue to meet the challenge. For the world's and people's tomorrows; the world's first, the world's best technologies and products; we will continue our part in creating a better society.

Job Summary

Job Description New Product Launch Industrial Engineer Job Description Objective This position acts as the project manager and team lead for the manufacturing process design of new product launches. This role provides the necessary link between design engineering and full-scale production to implement efficient and cost-effective manufacturing systems. This position is responsible for managing the project, from initial business award to successful production implementation, while strictly adhering to budget and timeline constraints.

Essential Responsibilities

• Process Design: Design and develop comprehensive manufacturing processes for new products, ensuring equipment requirements are fully aligned with product specifications and capacity requirements.
• Project Management: Manage the entire project lifecycle, including organizing and leading cross-functional meetings, facilitating technical design reviews, and driving accountability across stakeholders. Ensure all milestones are met, delivering the project on time and within the allocated budget.
• Capacity Planning: Analyze and determine capacity requirements, ensuring alignment with production volume forecasts and efficiency targets.
• New Business quotation - Understand costs associated with manufacturing equipment and labor needed to quote new business opportunities

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Project Management: Proven ability to lead complex projects, manage multidisciplinary teams, and conduct formal design reviews.
• Technical Proficiency: Working knowledge of process flow charts, PFMEA and their relationship to DFMEA.
• Knowledge of machine specification development, Financial Acumen: Experience in budget management and cost tracking for capital equipment and process implementation.
• Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical requirements clearly to diverse teams.
• Industry Experience: Experience in a highly automated manufacturing environment, specifically within automotive electronics (Tier 1 or OEM level) is strongly preferred.

Education & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, process engineering, or related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering or process engineering, with a focus on new product launch (NPL).

Additional Job Details

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmitive Action at Nidec Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmitive Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

Work Shift Schedule

First Shift (United States of America)

No Soliciting Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.

Nidec has worked its way up to become the world's No.1 manufacturer of small precision motors. In the process, Nidec has gradually expanded its product lineup to include a variety of small to large motors, application products for machinery, and electronic and optical components. At present, its products are used in a wide range of fields and devices including information and telecommunications equipment, office equipment, home appliances, automobiles, industrial equipment, and environmental energy. "For Everything that Spins and Moves", the Group is creating next-generation drive technologies to meet the needs of the society.