Industrial Engineer: Lean, Data-Driven Process Optimizer

The Lee Company; Westbrook (CT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid health insurance

Profit sharing

Tuition reimbursement

Daycare subsidy

Job summary

The Lee Company is seeking a driven and detail-oriented Industrial Engineer to improve manufacturing efficiency, optimize production flow, and support data-driven decision-making across operations. This role emphasizes routing accuracy, labor standards, capacity analysis, raw material optimization, and strategic vendor evaluations.

Responsibilities include streamlining routings, conducting time studies, identifying bottlenecks, and collaborating with production, quality, and supply chain teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related field.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with manufacturing processes, operations research, time studies, and workflow optimization.
• Proficiency with data analysis tools and industrial engineering methods.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Streamline and optimize manufacturing routings to improve process flow.
• Conduct time studies to determine accurate labor standards.
• Perform capacity studies to forecast resource needs.
• Identify bottlenecks and develop improvements to increase throughput.
• Determine product costs by analyzing labor, material usage, overhead, and efficiency.
• Review raw material usage to reduce cost and improve availability.
• Support vendor evaluations to improve supply chain resilience.
• Perform make-vs-buy studies to guide sourcing decisions.
• Calculate ROI for improvements and equipment purchases.
• Lead root cause analyses to identify drivers of variance and implement corrective actions.
• Create detailed process maps to document workflows and identify inefficiencies.
• Collaborate with production, quality, supply chain, and engineering teams to implement improvements.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related field

Tools

Operations research

Job description

The Lee Company is seeking a driven and detail-oriented Industrial Engineer to improve manufacturing efficiency, optimize production flow, and support data-driven decision-making across operations. This role emphasizes routing accuracy, labor standards, capacity analysis, raw material optimization, and strategic vendor evaluations.

Responsibilities include streamlining routings, conducting time studies, identifying bottlenecks, and collaborating with production, quality, and supply chain teams