Lean Manufacturing Engineer — Floor‑Focused, On‑Site

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Firestorm is seeking a hands-on Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer on a contract basis to support day-to-day manufacturing as we scale prototype and low-rate production. You will be embedded with the manufacturing engineering team to deliver floor layouts, standards, and Lean infrastructure that keep production organized and efficient.

You will turn a fast-moving production environment into standardized, well‑documented workflows and you’ll see your work on the floor the same week you build it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering required.
• 2+ years of industrial or manufacturing engineering hands-on experience in a production environment.
• Experience in AutoCAD for facility/workcell layout.
• Experience with time studies and work measurement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain facility, work cell, and production floor layouts in AutoCAD—equipment placement, material flow, and space planning.
• Conduct time studies and work measurement to establish labor standards, identify bottlenecks, and support line balancing.
• Author standard work sheets and standardized work documentation, capturing walk time against takt.
• Lead Lean initiatives—5S, shadow boards, visual management across work centers.
• Design and optimize hardware kitting processes—kit layouts, point-of-use presentation, staging to support assembly flow.
• Establish and maintain vendor-managed inventory (VMI) programs with Kanban sizing and replenishment triggers.
• Design point-of-use tooling and workstation layouts for repeatability and ergonomics.
• Analyze cycle time, throughput, and capacity to drive continuous improvement and Kaizen.
• Partner with production, quality, and engineering for on‑the‑floor process improvements.

Skills

AutoCAD

Time studies

Lean tools

Standard work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Firestorm is seeking a hands-on Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer on a contract basis to support day-to-day manufacturing as we scale prototype and low-rate production. You will be embedded with the manufacturing engineering team to deliver floor layouts, standards, and Lean infrastructure that keep production organized and efficient.

You will turn a fast-moving production environment into standardized, well‑documented workflows and you’ll see your work on the floor the same week you build it.