Principal Industrial Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as Mach’s technical authority for industrial engineering, factory planning, material flow, logistics, and production system design
• Lead industrial engineering and factory planning across Mach manufacturing facilities, with primary focus on Huntington Beach, Dallas–Fort Worth, and Victorville
• Own site-level and cross-site factory layout strategy, including production areas, equipment placement, material storage, logistics routes, warehousing, and support functions
• Develop factory master plans that translate product demand and production forecasts into space, equipment, labor, infrastructure, and material-flow requirements
• Own end-to-end material flow from receiving and warehousing through point-of-use delivery, production, inspection, finished goods, and shipping
• Design internal logistics systems including supermarkets, line-side inventory, kitting, tugger routes, forklifts, AMRs/AGVs, and other material handling systems
• Develop PFEP (Plan for Every Part) and standardized material presentation, storage, replenishment, and movement strategies
• Lead capacity modeling across equipment, labor, space, material flow, utilities, and production constraints

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical discipline
• 8+ years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, factory planning, or production systems
• Demonstrated experience designing, launching, or scaling complex manufacturing facilities
• Strong experience with factory layout, material flow, internal logistics, capacity planning, line balancing, and production optimization
• Experience developing labor, equipment, space, and throughput models for manufacturing systems
• Experience translating production forecasts into factory-level capacity and infrastructure requirements
• Experience leading cross-functional manufacturing projects across multiple organizations or facilities
• Strong understanding of Lean manufacturing, takt time, cycle time, WIP, standard work, bottleneck analysis, and production system design