Senior Industrial Engineer — Lean & Labor Standards

Komatsu America Corp.; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Komatsu America Corp. in Milwaukee is seeking an Industrial Engineer III who serves as a technical SME in labor standards, capacity planning, and productivity improvement within a complex manufacturing setting.

You will lead projects to improve labor utilization, throughput, cost, and safety by applying time studies, lean methods, data analysis, and standard work, while partnering with operations and quality teams.

Qualifications

• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Ability to establish and manage priorities.
• Physical presence at work needed approximately 90% of the time.
• Ability to focus and meet deadlines on a timely basis.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with managers and peers.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the subject matter expert for industrial engineering methods, labor standards, capacity analysis, and productivity improvement across manufacturing operations.
• Leads complex industrial engineering projects that improve labor utilization, throughput, quality, safety, cost, and on-time delivery.
• Develops, validates, and maintains labor standards, routings, staffing models, and capacity plans using sound industrial engineering practices.
• Applies lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, time study, work measurement, and data analysis tools to optimize manufacturing processes.
• Provides technical guidance, mentoring, and project leadership to manufacturing, engineering, supervision, planning, and support teams.
• Identifies and implements opportunities to reduce waste, improve productivity, balance work cells, increase velocity, improve safety and quality.

Skills

Time study

Work measurement

Lean manufacturing

Data analysis

Standard work

Continuous improvement

Job description

Komatsu America Corp. in Milwaukee is seeking an Industrial Engineer III who serves as a technical SME in labor standards, capacity planning, and productivity improvement within a complex manufacturing setting.

You will lead projects to improve labor utilization, throughput, cost, and safety by applying time studies, lean methods, data analysis, and standard work, while partnering with operations and quality teams.