Job Description
_ About the Role_
Segula Technologies is seeking an Industrial Engineer to lead a team supporting new product introductions at a major OEM manufacturing facility. This role focuses on methods development, line balancing, and continuous improvement—ensuring production lines meet performance, safety, and quality targets during launch and ramp-up phases in collaboration with Manufacturing and Engineering teams.
_ Key Responsibilities_
- Lead and manage a team conducting time and motion studies, developing standardized work, and balancing operator workloads to align with takt time using predetermined time standards such as MTM, MOST, or MODAPTS.
- Train the team on the customer’s new product introduction process.
- Present station readiness plans to the steering committee and customer.
- Present line balance strategies to the core launch team, including product, engineering, and operations stakeholders.
- Lead throughput and bottleneck analyses to identify improvement opportunities and eliminate constraints.
- Provide direction to Station Design, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality teams to implement design and process improvements.
- Ensure ergonomic evaluation data using digital tools such as Process Simulate Human or ErgoMan is provided to the responsible team.
- Validate PFMEA and process documentation for compliance and launch approval.
- Lead or participate in continuous improvement (Kaizen) workshops and lean manufacturing initiatives.
- Track and report launch metrics including cycle time adherence, first-time quality, downtime, and throughput performance.
- Support pilot builds, tool tryouts, and process validation during pre-production phases.