Position: Industrial Engineer – Layout & Project Controls

Location: Guadalajara, MX

Experience: 5–7 Years

Travel: Occasional travel to Monterrey, Mexico (frequency is adaptable)

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer with expertise in manufacturing plant layouts, project controls, and manufacturing optimization. The candidate will support the launch and ramp-up of a new manufacturing operation, managing plant layouts, project schedules, costs, risks, and production optimization activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Plant Layout Development & Management

- Develop and modify plant layouts covering production equipment, assembly areas, workstations, material storage, staging areas, aisles, docks, and utilities.
- Coordinate layout requirements with Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Materials, Quality, EHS, Maintenance, IT, Operations, and equipment suppliers.
- Conduct layout studies to optimize production flow, space utilization, labor efficiency, and material movement.
- Maintain master plant layouts, revision history, and change documentation.
- Incorporate approved layout changes into capacity models, material-flow plans, project schedules, and cost forecasts.

Project Controls

- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules covering engineering, equipment procurement, installation, validation, and production launch.
- Track milestones, dependencies, critical paths, schedule variances, and recovery plans.
- Maintain project budgets, cost baselines, actuals, forecasts, and estimate-at-completion (EAC).
- Track purchase requisitions, purchase orders, equipment commitments, invoices, and spending forecasts.
- Manage project risks, issues, and change controls.




- Prepare weekly dashboards and leadership reports covering schedule, cost, risks, and project status.

Industrial Engineering

- Conduct time studies, work-content analysis, takt-time, and cycle-time analysis.
- Perform line balancing, identify bottlenecks, and evaluate production capacity.
- Optimize material flow, point-of-use delivery, staging areas, supermarkets, and internal logistics routes.
- Apply Lean Manufacturing, ergonomics, and continuous improvement principles.
- Document assumptions, analytical methods, constraints, and operational improvements.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5–7 years of experience in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Project Controls, or a combination.
- Hands-on experience in manufacturing plant layout development and optimization.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or comparable 2D layout/CAD software.
- Experience with time studies, line balancing, takt-time, and cycle-time analysis.
- Knowledge of capacity modeling, labor modeling, and material-flow optimization.
- Practical experience with project scheduling, critical-path tracking, cost control, forecasting, risk management, and change control.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with greenfield/brownfield manufacturing facilities, plant expansions, or factory launches.
- Experience managing layouts from concept through equipment installation and production launch.
- Familiarity with capital-project budgets, purchase orders, commitments, forecasting, and EAC.
- Knowledge of SAP, Windchill, or Timer Pro.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or Smartsheet.

📌 Manufacturing Engineer (Guadalajara)
🏢 Global Connect Technologies
📍 Guadalajara