Industrial & Operations Engineer
On-siteSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own factory-level performance and scalability by connecting demand, labor, equipment, and material flow into an integrated production system. Develop layouts, optimize workstation design and material presentation, and lead cycle-time analysis to establish production standards. Build capacity models translating forecasts into requirements for labor, equipment, and capital while identifying bottlenecks that constrain output. Define WIP and buffer strategies, partner with teams on takt time and staffing models, and create dashboards for data-driven scaling decisions. Drive continuous improvement projects from problem definition through implementation to increase throughput and utilization.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operations engineering, production systems, or a comparable environment.
- Strong understanding of production system design, capacity planning, line balancing, takt time, cycle-time analysis, standard work, and manufacturing flow.
- Demonstrated experience performing time studies and translating observations into labor and capacity models.
- Experience designing or improving manufacturing layouts and material-flow systems.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn imperfect production data into clear engineering and business decisions.
- Experience identifying manufacturing constraints and driving improvements in throughput, productivity, utilization, lead time, or cost.
- Ability to build financial and operational models that support CapEx, automation, make/buy, and factory-scaling decisions.
- Strong spreadsheet and data-analysis skills; comfort working with manufacturing data from ERP, MES, labor-tracking, and production systems.
- Ability to work directly on the factory floor, understand how production actually operates, and collaborate effectively with technicians, manufacturing engineers, production leaders, quality engineers, supply chain, and design engineering.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to convert complex analysis into simple recommendations and executable plans.
- A high degree of ownership. You are comfortable identifying an ambiguous factory-level problem, defining what needs to be measured, developing a solution, and driving it through implementation.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience scaling a complex electromechanical product from NPI or low-rate production into higher-volume manufacturing.
- Experience with discrete-event simulation, optimization, operations research, or other production-system modeling techniques.
- Experience with SQL, Python, BI tools, or other methods for analyzing large manufacturing datasets.
- Experience with ERP and MES platforms and developing manufacturing dashboards or operational reporting systems.
- Experience developing business cases for automation or major manufacturing equipment.
- Experience with Lean manufacturing concepts, Theory of Constraints, PFMEA, value-stream mapping, or structured continuous-improvement methodologies.
- Experience supporting factory expansions, new production lines, or greenfield manufacturing operations.
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