Lean Industrial Engineer: Drive Productivity & Costs

Energy Jobline ZR; Marion (IA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Talascend is seeking an Industrial Engineer for a contract opportunity in Marion, Ohio. You will lead initiatives to eliminate waste, improve productivity, and ensure accurate costing and routing across the plant.

The role requires hands-on experience in production costing, line balancing, and time studies, with a focus on driving cost out and increasing throughput. This position is onsite at the Marion facility and offers opportunities to influence multiple production lines.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to perform the duties of this position through relevant experience, training, or education

Responsibilities

• Provide ways and methods to eliminate all types of waste in the production process
• Drive continuous improvement through detailed analytics
• Develop a project pipeline for cost takeout
• Lead time studies utilizing Modapts, a predetermined time analysis
• Use line balancing with the Yamazumi chart for line rate changes
• Identify non-value add, unbalanced, value add, and semi-value add activities
• Lead cost studies to determine the best product flow in the plant
• Support WPS implementation by providing leadership to continuous improvement teams
• Drive the plant to achieve short and long-term labor productivity targets
• Support scoping of cost projects within the facility
• Ensure all new models and parts are efficiently integrated into operations
• Develop and maintain equipment capacity information and planning
• Own all costing, routers, line balances, and labor utilization for the plant
• Support level loading across workstations and departments to balance production flow and capacity

Job description

Talascend is seeking an Industrial Engineer for a contract opportunity in Marion, Ohio. You will lead initiatives to eliminate waste, improve productivity, and ensure accurate costing and routing across the plant.

The role requires hands-on experience in production costing, line balancing, and time studies, with a focus on driving cost out and increasing throughput. This position is onsite at the Marion facility and offers opportunities to influence multiple production lines.