Lean Industrial Engineer — Lead Continuous Improvement

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

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.