Continuous Improvement Practitioner - Industrial Engineering Manager
Job Number: 11661
External Description:
About this role:
The Continuous Improvement Practitioner / Industrial Engineering Manager leads the site's continuous-improvement program and industrial engineering agenda. This role drives Lean deployment, kaizen events and productivity projects while owning labor standards, line balancing and capacity modeling for the plant.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads the site continuous-improvement program, including Lean deployment and kaizen roadmap.
- Facilitates kaizen events, value stream mapping and problem-solving workshops.
- Owns labor standards, line balancing, capacity models and plant layout strategy.
- Leads productivity, cost-reduction and waste-elimination projects with measurable savings.
- Coaches leaders and teams on Lean tools, standard work and daily management.
- Builds capability through training and certification of practitioners across the site.
- Tracks and reports improvement pipeline, savings and KPI impact.
- Partners with Operations, Quality, Materials and Engineering to prioritize improvements.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of industrial engineering and/or continuous-improvement experience in manufacturing.
- 7+ years of experience leading Lean deployments, kaizen events and value stream mapping.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Lean / Six Sigma certification.
- Strong command of time studies, line balancing, labor standards and capacity modeling.
- Track record of delivering measurable productivity and cost-reduction results.
- Ability to coach and influence leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Strong data-analysis skills and structured problem-solving (8D, A3, DMAIC).
- Experience in high-growth or fast-paced manufacturing environments.
- Proficiency with simulation and analytics tools (FlexSim, Minitab, Power BI, AutoCad).
Job Number: 30218469
Community / Marketing Title: Continuous Improvement Practitioner - Industrial Engineering Manager
Location_formattedLocationLong: Texas, US