Senior Industrial Engineer - Lean Ops & Launch Leader

Yanfeng; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision from day one

401k match

Paid vacations & holidays

Life and Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Employee discount program

Job summary

Yanfeng is a leading global automotive supplier with a focus on interior, exterior, seating, and cockpit electronics. The Industrial Engineer will lead large-scale lean initiatives, develop facility flow improvements, and drive value-stream mapping to create measurable, data-driven improvements across plant operations.

You will guide labor planning, time studies, line balancing, and capacity analysis while collaborating with AME, Operations, and Program Management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Operations Engineering or related.
• 7+ years of experience in Industrial Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience within the automotive industry desired.
• Willingness to travel and work at customer sites, including manufacturing plants.
• Extensive experience with labor planning, time studies, line balancing, and capacity analysis.
• Advanced AutoCAD and facility layout planning experience.
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting operational and financial data.
• Experience supporting new program launches and manufacturing expansions.

Responsibilities

• Lead lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.
• Develop and implement strategic facility flow improvements for material movement and efficiency.
• Lead value stream mapping and future-state roadmaps with measurable targets.
• Champion Kaizen events and facilitate cross-functional teams to eliminate waste.
• Establish and monitor industrial engineering metrics to meet plant objectives.
• Serve as the site’s industrial engineering expert for labor productivity and efficiency.
• Lead labor planning activities for new and existing programs using models and standards.
• Conduct time studies, work sampling, line balancing, and labor analysis.
• Own facility planning and layout strategy aligning with growth and standards.
• Lead plant layout redesign projects using AutoCAD.
• Identify automation opportunities in material handling and warehouse operations.
• Support new product launches with engineering leadership and capacity planning.
• Present improvement strategies and results to plant and senior leadership.

Skills

Lean principles

Labor planning

Time studies

Line balancing

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

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

Tools

AutoCAD

MODAPTS

Simulation modelling

Job description

Yanfeng is a leading global automotive supplier with a focus on interior, exterior, seating, and cockpit electronics. The Industrial Engineer will lead large-scale lean initiatives, develop facility flow improvements, and drive value-stream mapping to create measurable, data-driven improvements across plant operations.

You will guide labor planning, time studies, line balancing, and capacity analysis while collaborating with AME, Operations, and Program Management.