Continuous Improvement & Industrial Engineer
Full-time, Monday-Friday
Salary: $85k+ DOE
We are recruiting a hands-on Industrial & Continuous Improvement Engineer for a mid-sized, high-volume manufacturing facility in the Sioux City area.
This role serves as a key change agent on the shop floor—leading Lean initiatives, optimizing plant layouts, driving equipment reliability, and managing small-to-medium capital improvement projects. If you thrive in a fast-paced plant environment, working directly alongside operations, maintenance, and supply chain teams to solve operational bottlenecks, this opportunity offers high visibility and immediate impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Lean & Operational Excellence: Lead site-wide 5S, Kaizen events, visual workplace standards, and value stream mapping to eliminate waste and drive sustainable cost/safety improvements.
- Standard Work & Process Optimization: Develop and maintain SOPs, perform time/labor studies, establish best practices, and train plant supervisors and operators.
- Equipment Reliability (TPM): Partner with maintenance and operations to implement Autonomous Maintenance programs, conduct root cause downtime analysis, and boost equipment uptime.
- Facility Layout & Workflow Design: Analyze material flow and bottlenecks, optimize cell layouts/warehouse spaces, and design efficient workflow arrangements.
- Capital Project Management: Manage small-to-medium capital investments from concept and ROI analysis through vendor management, installation, and commissioning.
- Data-Driven Problem Solving: Utilize Lean/Six Sigma tools (A3, 5 Why, Fishbone, DMAIC) to analyze downtime, labor, and production metrics for leadership reporting.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Operations Engineering (or related technical field).
- 3–5 years of industrial engineering or continuous improvement experience within a manufacturing facility.
- Proven experience leading Kaizen events, 5S, SOP development, and structured root-cause analysis.
- Proficiency in MS Excel and data analysis tools.
- Hands-on shop floor presence with strong cross-functional communication and leadership skills.
Preferred:
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Direct experience with TPM, AutoCAD/layout software, CMMS, or Power BI.
- Background in high-volume production, consumer goods, food processing, or industrial manufacturing.
Compensation
- $85k or more, depending on experience
- Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance. 401(k). PTO and more.
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Aventure Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. A drug screen and background may be required.