Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer with Layout and Project Controls experience to support the launch and ramp-up of a new manufacturing operation. The role combines three key areas of responsibility:

1. Plant layout development and management (40%)
2. Project Controls, including schedule, cost, risk, and change management (30%)
3. Industrial Engineering and manufacturing optimization (20%)

Key Responsibilities Plant Layout Development & Management

· Create and modify layouts incorporating production equipment, assembly areas, workstations, material storage, supermarkets, staging areas, aisles, docks, utilities, maintenance access, and employee/material movement.

· Coordinate equipment footprints and layout requirements with Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Materials, Quality, EHS, Maintenance, IT, Operations, and equipment suppliers.

· Perform layout studies and evaluate alternative scenarios to optimize production flow, space utilization, labor efficiency, and material movement.

· Maintain the controlled plant-layout master, including revision history and change documentation.

· Ensure approved equipment and layout changes are incorporated into associated capacity models, material-flow plans, project schedules, cost forecasts, and risk assessments.

Project Controls

· Develop and maintain the integrated master project schedule covering engineering, equipment procurement, facilities, installation, validation, manufacturing readiness, and production launch.

· Track milestones, dependencies, critical path, schedule variance, and recovery actions.

· Maintain project cost baselines, budgets, actuals, commitments, forecasts, and estimate-at-completion (EAC).

· Track purchase requisitions, purchase orders, equipment commitments, invoices, and forecasted spending with Finance and Procurement.





· Maintain a risk cube with probability, impact, owner, mitigation, target date, and escalation status.

· Evaluate changes for impact to scope, cost, schedule, plant layout, capacity, and production launch.

· Prepare concise weekly dashboards and leadership reports covering schedule, cost, risks, constraints, and decisions required.

· Escalate issues affecting equipment installation, manufacturing readiness, cost, schedule, or launch.

Industrial Engineering

· Perform and validate time studies, work-content analysis, takt-time calculations, cycle-time analysis, staffing, and shift assumptions for the approved product mix and ramp plan.

· Perform line balancing, identify bottlenecks, quantify capacity gaps, and develop improvement recommendations.

· Design and optimize material flow, point-of-use delivery, staging, supermarkets, dock interfaces and internal logistics routes.

· Incorporate SQDCP, ergonomics, maintainability, flexibility, and future expansion requirements into recommendations.

· Document assumptions, data sources, analytical methods, constraints, and quantified operational impacts at each design gate.

Deliverables

· D1 – Cost Control Tracker (Weekly)

· D2 – Integrated Master Schedule (Weekly)

· D3 – Risk Cube (Weekly)

· D4 – Master Layout (Weekly)

· D5 – IE Package (Each design gate)

· D6 – Leadership Review (Weekly)

· D7 – Decision Register (Continuous)





· D8 – Launch Handover (At closure)

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.

· 5 to 7 years of experience in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Project Controls, or a combination of these areas.

· Demonstrated hands-on experience with:

o Manufacturing plant and production layout development, analysis & optimization o AutoCAD or comparable 2D layout/CAD software o Time studies, Line balancing, Takt-time and cycle-time analysis o Capacity and labor modeling o Material-flow optimization

· Experience coordinating plant-layout requirements across Manufacturing, Facilities, Materials, Quality, EHS, Maintenance, and Operations.

· Practical Project Controls experience including:

o Project scheduling o Critical-path and milestone tracking o Cost and budget tracking o Forecasting and variance analysis o Risk and issue management o Change control o Project status reporting

· Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for capacity modeling, cost tracking, forecasting, and data analysis.

· Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience supporting a greenfield/brownfield manufacturing facility, major plant expansion, production-line installation, or factory launch.

· Experience taking plant layouts from concept through equipment installation and production launch.

· Experience integrating manufacturing readiness activities into an overall project schedule.

· Experience with capital-project budget, PO, commitment, forecast, and EAC tracking.

· Familiarity with SAP, Windchill, Timer Pro, or comparable systems.

· Experience with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Smartsheet, or equivalent scheduling tools.

📌 Industrial Engineer – Plant Layout & Project Controls (Guadalajara)
🏢 Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group
📍 Guadalajara