Manufacturing Engineer III — Lean & Productivity Leader

Komatsu; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Komatsu is seeking an Industrial Engineer III to act as a technical SME across complex manufacturing environments. You will lead projects that improve labor utilization, throughput, safety, and on-time delivery using time studies, lean practices, data analysis, and standard work.

Work closely with manufacturing leadership, supervisors, planning, quality, safety, engineering, and senior management to identify constraints, validate routings and staffing models, and recommend process improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience with labor standards, time studies, and standard work.
• Strong focus on capacity planning and productivity improvements.
• Proven ability to apply lean manufacturing and data analysis to manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Serves as SME for industrial engineering methods, labor standards, capacity analysis, and productivity improvement across manufacturing operations.
• Leads complex IE projects to optimize labor utilization, throughput, safety, cost, and on-time delivery.
• Develops and maintains labor standards, routings, staffing models, and capacity plans using IE practices.

Skills

Labor standards

Capacity planning

Lean manufacturing

Time studies

Data analysis

Continuous improvement

Standard work

Productivity improvement

Manufacturing operations

Job description

Komatsu is seeking an Industrial Engineer III to act as a technical SME across complex manufacturing environments. You will lead projects that improve labor utilization, throughput, safety, and on-time delivery using time studies, lean practices, data analysis, and standard work.

Work closely with manufacturing leadership, supervisors, planning, quality, safety, engineering, and senior management to identify constraints, validate routings and staffing models, and recommend process improvements.