Senior Industrial Engineer - Lean & Facilities Excellence

Anite; Santa Rosa (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight's Santa Rosa site seeks a senior industrial/facilities engineer to drive Lean improvements across labs and fab support processes. You will lead Kaizen events, develop standard work, and partner with IC Fab, labs, and business teams to cut waste and improve uptime.

As a senior IC contributor, you will apply 5S, value stream mapping, and PDCA to reduce downtime, improve safety, and ensure compliant, efficient facilities operations. Strong cross-functional collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Facilities Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 10–12 years of experience in manufacturing, operations, facilities, or industrial engineering.
• Proven success leading Lean assessments and 5S in a manufacturing or process environment, with measurable results.
• Working knowledge of error-proofing, FMEA, and root cause analysis.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 requirements, including corrective and preventive action and internal audits.
• Familiarity with ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and OSHA requirements as they apply to facilities operations.
• Experience developing and launching processes, standard operating procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead Lean assessments, Kaizen events, value stream mapping, and 5S across facilities processes that support the fab, including work orders, preventive maintenance, utility support, moves, adds and changes, and vendor service delivery.
• Reduce waiting, rework, unnecessary motion, and over-processing in service requests, permitting, and project intake.
• Develop standard work for facilities technicians and service teams, including procedures, checklists, and visual management.
• Apply A3, PDCA, and root cause methods such as 5 Why and fishbone analysis to address recurring issues, including equipment downtime and safety incidents.
• Define and track relevant measures, such as work order cycle time, preventive maintenance compliance, uptime, response time, and cost per square foot.
• Lead cross-functional groups with EHS, IT, Security, Engineering, and vendors to align priorities across the site.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Facilities Engineering

Tools

Kaizen

5S

Value stream mapping

A3 problem solving

PDCA

Root cause analysis

Job description

Keysight's Santa Rosa site seeks a senior industrial/facilities engineer to drive Lean improvements across labs and fab support processes. You will lead Kaizen events, develop standard work, and partner with IC Fab, labs, and business teams to cut waste and improve uptime.

As a senior IC contributor, you will apply 5S, value stream mapping, and PDCA to reduce downtime, improve safety, and ensure compliant, efficient facilities operations. Strong cross-functional collaboration is essential.