Industrial Engineer - Battery Manufacturing: Process Optimizer

K&K Technical; Liberty (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina in Liberty, NC is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to support high-volume battery production operations, capital projects, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will design, analyze, and document manufacturing systems to enhance safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.

The role focuses on capacity planning, line balancing, Kaizen facilitation, and data-driven improvement, with strong collaboration across Production,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production systems, or closely related experience.
• Experience supporting 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, Production/facility layouts, Material flow, Standardized work.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and manufacturing data-analysis skills.
• Strong analytical, technical-writing, project-management, and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze production requirements and develop efficient manufacturing concepts.
• Improve production flow, material flow, staffing, work balance, and equipment/facility layouts.
• Perform cycle-time studies, line balancing, bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, and utilization analysis.
• Develop capacity models and evaluate labor, equipment, shift, and production requirements.
• Lead and support Kaizen and continuous-improvement activities.
• Perform structured root-cause analysis and implement sustainable countermeasures.
• Develop manufacturing KPIs, dashboards, reports, and executive summaries.
• Analyze manufacturing data to identify trends, losses, constraints, and opportunities.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, trials, production readiness, ramp-up, and handover.
• Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Facilities, vendors, contractors, and engineering teams.

Skills

5+ years experience

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical or Systems Engineering

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

Minitab

Tableau

FlexSim

AnyLogic

Plant Simulation

Job description

Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina in Liberty, NC is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to support high-volume battery production operations, capital projects, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will design, analyze, and document manufacturing systems to enhance safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.

The role focuses on capacity planning, line balancing, Kaizen facilitation, and data-driven improvement, with strong collaboration across Production,