Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description
Job Title: Industrial Engineer
Location: Appleton, WI
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to support manufacturing and assembly operations with a strong focus on Lean principles, process optimization, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in time studies, line balancing, value stream mapping, and root cause analysis within an assembly or manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Study assembly lines and manufacturing processes to identify improvement opportunities using Lean principles.
- Perform time studies and line balancing, including elemental breakdowns, video time studies, VA/NVA/RNVA analysis, and Muri analysis.
- Develop current-state and future-state line balancing models.
- Create Value Stream Maps (VSM) to identify bottlenecks, waste, inefficiencies, and conduct capacity analysis.
- Establish current baselines and define future-state improvements.
- Identify productivity and process improvement opportunities and provide Level 1, 2, and 3 improvement recommendations with a detailed roadmap.
- Develop and update standard work instructions and video-based work instructions.
- Perform root cause analysis for quality issues, defects, downtime, and support corrective actions through Kaizen and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Assist in fixture design and process support as required.