Industrial Engineer

The Industrial Engineer will play a key leadership role in driving productivity, optimizing manufacturing processes, and supporting cost accuracy across the organization. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of motion economy and its relationship to work elements, enabling efficient, ergonomic, and repeatable work methods across all operations.

Position would require the candidate to be a W2 employee of Donatech.

The Industrial Engineer will play a key leadership role in driving productivity, optimizing manufacturing processes, and supporting cost accuracy across the organization. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining production standards, supporting level planning, and ensuring that costing routers accurately reflect true labor and process requirements. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of motion economy and its relationship to work elements, enabling efficient, ergonomic, and repeatable work methods across all operations.
Your responsibilities will include
Provide ways/methods to eliminate all types of waste in the production process

Drive continuous improvement though detailed analytics

Develop a project pipeline for cost takeout

Lead time studies utilizing Modapts, a predetermined time analysis

Use Line Balancing with the Yamazumi chart for line rate changes

Identify Non-value add, Unbalanced, Value Add, and Semi Value Add activities

Lead cost studies to determine the best product flow in the plant

Support WPS implementation by providing leadership to continuous improvement teams

Drive the plant to achieve short/long term labor productivity targets

Support scoping of cost projects within the Findlay facility

Ensure all new models/parts efficiently integrated into operations

Develop and maintain equipment capacity information and planning

Own all costing, routers, line balances, and labor utilization for the plant

Support level loading across workstations and departments to balance production flow and capacity