Industrial Engineering Manager – Lean Manufacturing Lead

Anderson International; Stow (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Anderson International is seeking an Industrial Engineering Manager to convert engineering designs into manufacturing processes, ensuring routings, standards, and costs are accurate and repeatable.

You will lead the Industrial Engineering team, collaborate with Design Engineering, Operations, Quality and Supply Chain, and drive DFMs, cost reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives across the plant. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on shop-floor support.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of manufacturing or industrial engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading engineers or technical staff.
• Experience with machining, welding, fabrication, assembly, heat treat and grinding.
• Experience building routings and BOMs, setting labor standards, defining outside services and raw material, and supporting product costing.
• Experience leading nonconforming material review and engineering disposition.
• Experience in large, complex production of mechanical capital equipment.
• ETO/CTO/low-volume, high-mix environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the industrialization of all Anderson-engineered product with master routings, materials, tooling and fixturing.
• Lead design-for-manufacturability (DFM) reviews with Design Engineering before drawing release.
• Identify and document design changes that reduce cost and lead time without affecting form, fit or function.
• Lead make vs. buy analysis for new and existing parts using capacity, cost and lead-time data.
• Ensure work instructions, fixturing, tooling and inspection requirements are defined for new product.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure standards support accurate product costing and investigate variances.

Skills

Leadership

Industrial engineering

DFM reviews

Project management

Lean manufacturing

ERP/MRP

Education

Bachelor’s in Industrial/Mechanical Eng

Tools

SolidWorks

Epicor

MS Excel

Job description

Anderson International is seeking an Industrial Engineering Manager to convert engineering designs into manufacturing processes, ensuring routings, standards, and costs are accurate and repeatable.

You will lead the Industrial Engineering team, collaborate with Design Engineering, Operations, Quality and Supply Chain, and drive DFMs, cost reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives across the plant. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on shop-floor support.