Industrial Engineer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an Industrial Engineer to lead efficiency improvements across manufacturing and transactional processes. You will advocate for a continuous improvement culture, mentor junior staff, and drive lean initiatives across multiple facilities and projects.

The role emphasizes data-driven problem solving, layout optimization, and capacity planning, with opportunities to influence long-range capacity and productivity.

Qualifications

• Experience leading industrial engineering projects and value stream mapping.
• Strong data-driven problem solving and analysis.
• Ability to mentor staff and communicate with management.

Responsibilities

• Lead IE projects such as value stream mapping, design reviews, and line/start-up.
• Perform structured problem solving and data-driven analysis to recommend improvements.
• Evaluate operations, build business cases, and drive execution with metrics.
• Review layouts, process and material flow; implement cost-effective improvements.
• Train in time standards, line balancing, simulation, cost estimation, and manpower planning.
• Support large layout changes and draft dashboards to monitor performance.
• Prepare strategic analyses and present findings to management.
• Create reports/dashboards for analysis and understanding.

Skills

Lean methodologies

Data analysis

Project management

Continuous improvement

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:
The Industrial Engineer will lead efforts to improve the efficiency of physical and transactional processes throughout the organization. In this position, the IE will take a leadership role in advocating for a continuous improvement culture, executing projects of moderate to large scope across manufacturing operations, and driving lean improvement across numerous processes. The IE may mentor junior staff and will be considered a technical SME. The candidate should have a strong track record of continuous improvement results, experience with project management and good soft skills.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Participate and may lead Industrial Engineering projects and activities. Projects may include value stream mapping, design reviews, new product development and introduction, new line or facility start-up, and facility design.
• Run structured technical problem solving investigations and utilize data driven analysis to provide recommendations and solutions to achieve improvement.
• Evaluate operations and identify improvement opportunities, utilizing data analysis and metrics to build a business case, and deliver on execution. Monitor operational metrics including labor hours, WIP levels, and productivity, analyze data for trends, and collaborate with process owners to improve.
• Review and analyze work cell layout, process flow, material flow, etc. Assess best practices. Recommend cost-effective solutions for improving the utilization and efficiency of personnel, equipment and/or physical space. Lead projects that will result in improved costs and/or enhanced quality.
• Perform duties and train in the areas of time standards, line balancing, simulation modeling, cost estimation, manpower planning, and continuous improvement.
• Support large building or multi-cell layout changes. May lead layout changes of moderate size with minimal oversight.
• Upon request, perform strategic analysis and communicate findings effectively to various levels of management. This may include assessing long-range capacity forecasts from analysis to recommendations and justification for facilities, equipment, and/or manpower requirements for new or sustaining product ramp.
• May propose and/or draft reports or dashboards to support data analysis.
• May build simple reports or dashboards for analysis and deeper understanding.
• May maintain existing reports or dashboards as required.