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Industrial Engineer lll
Posting Start Date:
9/10/26
Job Location (Short):
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA,
Requisition ID:
36895
Onsite or Remote:
Onsite Position
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Job Overview
The Industrial Engineer III serves as a technical subject matter expert in industrial engineering methods, labor standards, capacity planning, and productivity improvement within a complex manufacturing environment. This role leads and supports projects that improve labor utilization, throughput, cost, quality, safety, and on-time delivery by using time studies, work measurement, lean manufacturing, data analysis, standard work, and continuous improvement practices.
This position partners closely with manufacturing leadership, supervisors, planning, quality, safety, engineering, accounting, and senior management to identify operational constraints, improve workflow, validate routings and labor standards, support staffing models, and recommend process improvements.
Key Job Responsibilities
Serves as the subject matter expert for industrial engineering methods, labor standards, capacity analysis, and productivity improvement across manufacturing operations.
Leads complex industrial engineering projects that improve labor utilization, throughput, quality, safety, cost, and on-time delivery.
Develops, validates, and maintains labor standards, routings, staffing models, and capacity plans using sound industrial engineering practices.
Applies lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, time study, work measurement, and data analysis tools to optimize manufacturing processes.
Provides technical guidance, mentoring, and project leadership to manufacturing, engineering, supervision, planning, and support teams.
Identifies and implements opportunities to reduce waste, improve productivity, balance work cells, increase velocity, improve safety and quality, and support operational performance metrics.
Qualifications/Requirements
Ability to remain calm in situations involving stress, deadlines, or upset employees or third parties.
Ability to establish and manage priorities of yourself and subordinates if applicable.
Physical presence at work needed approximately 90% of the time.
Ability to focus and meet deadlines on a timely basis.
Ability to maintain effective working relationships with managers, peers, and subordinates.
Ability to manage multiple, concurrent tasks.
Ability to understand how your emotions and communications are perceived by others including managers, peers, and subordinates and modify as needed to be an effective team member.
Ability to motivate your peers and subordinates to achieve targeted performance metrics.
Safety
Promote and support a safety-first culture by designing, improving, and sustaining manufacturing processes that protect employees, reduce risk, and support safe work execution.
Incorporate Komatsu safety goals, policies, and cardinal safety expectations into engineering decisions, process improvements, equipment layouts, tooling changes, and standard work.
Partner with operations, safety, quality, maintenance, and production teams to identify hazards, assess risk, and implement corrective actions that improve employee safety and operational performance.
Actively support continuous improvement initiatives that reduce unsafe conditions, improve ergonomics, eliminate waste, and strengthen reliable day-to-day work practices.
Ensure engineering recommendations consider safe material flow, machine guarding, crane and forklift movement, work-at-height exposure, suspended loads, pinch points, and other shop-floor risks.
Participate in safety reviews, incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning as needed to prevent recurrence and improve future processes.
Diversity & Inclusion Commitment
At Komatsu we come from diverse backgrounds, with unique perspectives, experiences, and contributions.We are committed to creating a workforce that is reflective of the communities we work and live in. We believe that our people are part of our shared purpose.We are authentic, ambitious, and innovative in our pursuit of Diversity & Inclusion.United, we are on a journey towards a sustainable future that creates value together.
Company Information
Komatsu is a world leader in manufacturing construction, mining, forestry, and industrial heavy equipment.Founded in 1921, Komatsu has a long history of quality, reliability, innovation, and excellence.Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Komatsu facilities, distributors and dealers are in more than 140 countries and employ more than 60,000 people.Komatsu offers a diverse and challenging work environment, where you can grow your skills and career, and contribute to a sustainable, clean-energy future.If you are looking for a company that values your talent and potential, be a part of something big and join a team that is shaping the world!
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