Senior Industrial Engineering Program Manager

Intellectt Inc; Appleton (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellectt Inc seeks a senior on-site Industrial Engineering lead to supervise teams across 4–5 manufacturing facilities. You will oversee time studies, line balancing, and lean improvement initiatives while driving governance, risk management, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities include coordinating with customer, onsite, and offshore teams, identifying labor optimization, automation, and digital manufacturing opportunities to transform production lines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering is required.
• Experience leading Industrial Engineering teams across multiple facilities.
• Global team leadership with onsite, offshore, and cross-functional coordination.
• Experience with program governance, multi-project delivery, risk management, and KPI tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of onsite Industrial Engineers across 4–5 facilities.
• Drive time studies, work measurement, line balancing, and productivity improvements.
• Serve as liaison between Customer, Onsite, and Offshore teams for governance and reporting.

Skills

Time studies

Line balancing

Yamazumi charts

Lean Manufacturing

Kaizen

5S

Kanban

Poka-Yoke

Digital manufacturing solutions

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering

Job description

Lead and manage a team of onsite Industrial Engineers supporting 4-5 manufacturing facilities, ensuring successful execution of time studies, work measurement, line balancing, productivity improvement, Lean Manufacturing, and continuous improvement initiatives. Serve as the primary liaison between Customer, Onsite, and Offshore teams, driving project governance, resource planning, risk management, stakeholder communication, and executive reporting. Support manufacturing transformation programs including assembly line consolidation and high-flow line implementation, identifying opportunities for labor optimization, automation, robotics, material flow improvements, and digital manufacturing solutions.

Key Skills

• Perform video-based time studies, work breakdown activities, line balancing studies using Yamazumi charts, multi-model line balancing, and level loading in high-volume and high-mix production environments.
• Apply Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Kaizen, 5S, Kanban, Poka-Yoke, and continuous improvement practices to improve quality, reduce cost, increase productivity, and improve cycle time.
• Identify and implement opportunities for labor optimization, automation, robotics, material flow improvements, route optimization, warehouse and inventory optimization, and digital manufacturing solutions.
• Develop SOPs, work instructions, standardized operating methods, improvement plans, KPIs, dashboards, and reports to improve process consistency, performance, and decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering.
• Experience leading Industrial Engineering teams supporting multiple manufacturing facilities.
• Proven ability to lead global teams and coordinate effectively with cross-functional, onsite, offshore, customer leadership, operations, engineering, and sales teams.
• Experience with program governance, multi-project delivery management, risk and issue management, KPI/metrics-driven delivery, customer escalation management, and onsite-offshore delivery models.

Additional Skills

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, conflict resolution, and change management skills.
• Experience driving manufacturing transformation programs, including assembly line consolidation and high-flow line implementation.
• Ability to identify potential risks and roadblocks in improvement projects and proactively develop mitigation strategies.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior management, to ensure alignment of objectives and support for improvement initiatives.