Plant Layout Lead & Industrial Engineer

AMPERA INC; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Relocation bonus

Stock options plan

Vision insurance

Job summary

Ampera is building a new manufacturing facility to support Power Now solutions and future Nuclear Next industrialization. The Industrial Engineer / Plant Layout Lead will translate product demand, processes, equipment, and material flow into a safe, efficient plant design.

You will lead layout development from block to as-built, plan capacity and labor, coordinate with Engineering, Quality, and Facilities, and drive growth through 2030 in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical/Systems Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in industrial/ manufacturing engineering, facility planning, or production-operations.
• Experience with facility layout, capacity planning, material flow, workstation design, labor analysis, and line balancing.
• Experience supporting a new facility, production-line installation, plant expansion, or new-product launch.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, BOMs, and routings.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain facility layouts including block, detailed, installation, and as-built views.
• Define manufacturing areas, work centers, adjacencies, equipment locations, and production flow.
• Develop capacity, labor, workstation, equipment, and space models.
• Design assembly, integration, rework, maintenance, tooling, and material-staging areas.
• Plan material flow from receiving to shipping.
• Define workstation, tooling, fixture, lifting, rigging, ergonomic, and maintenance-access requirements.
• Coordinate manufacturing utility needs (power, HVAC, gas, network, MES).
• Conduct time studies, line balancing, labor analysis, and production-flow optimization.
• Support equipment installation, dry runs, pilot builds, and production-readiness reviews.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Testing, Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities, EHS, Maintenance, MES/IT, contractors, and suppliers.
• Maintain layout revisions and develop expansion plans through 2030.

Skills

Facility layout

Capacity planning

Material flow

Workstation design

Labor modeling

Lean manufacturing

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven problem-solving

Change control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical/Systems Engineering

Five+ years in industrial/manufacturing engineering

Experience with facility layout and line balancing

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Excel

Autodesk Factory Design Utilities

Inventor/SolidWorks/Creo/Revit/Navisworks

Microsoft Visio

Power BI

MS Project/ Primavera/ Smartsheet

MES/ERP/PLM

FlexSim or similar simulation tools

Job description

Ampera is building a new manufacturing facility to support Power Now solutions and future Nuclear Next industrialization. The Industrial Engineer / Plant Layout Lead will translate product demand, processes, equipment, and material flow into a safe, efficient plant design.

You will lead layout development from block to as-built, plan capacity and labor, coordinate with Engineering, Quality, and Facilities, and drive growth through 2030 in a fast-paced startup environment.