Industrial Engineer

Company Overview:

The Lee Company is a global leader in the design and production of miniature, precision fluid control components for the aerospace, medical/scientific instrument, oil tool, and automotive industries.

Lee Company products are recognized worldwide for superior quality, reliability, and performance. Lee’s unique capabilities in miniaturization and engineering keep the company at the forefront of fluid control technology and identify Lee as a leading innovator in the field of fluid handling and control.

Founded in 1948, The Lee Company occupies over one million sq. ft. of modern manufacturing and office space at four sites in Westbrook, Essex and Watertown, Connecticut, and employs over 1,100 people.

Job Overview:

The Lee Company is seeking a driven and detail-oriented Industrial Engineer to improve manufacturing efficiency, optimize production flow, and support data-driven decision-making across operations. This role will focus on routing accuracy, labor standards, capacity analysis, raw material optimization, and strategic vendor and sourcing evaluations.

Responsibilities:

• Streamline and optimize manufacturing routings to improve process flow and reduce waste.
• Conduct detailed time studies to determine accurate operation labor standards.
• Perform capacity studies to identify constraints, forecast resource needs, and support long-term planning.
• Identify production bottlenecks and develop actionable solutions to improve throughput.
• Determine product costs by analyzing labor, material usage, overhead, and process efficiency.
• Review and streamline raw material usage to reduce cost and improve availability.
• Support the evaluation and development of new vendors to improve supply chain resilience.
• Perform make-vs-buy studies to guide strategic sourcing and manufacturing decisions.
• Calculate ROI for proposed improvements, equipment purchases, and process changes.
• Perform variance analysis on manufacturing data to identify deviations from standards.
• Lead root cause analysis investigations to determine drivers of performance variance and develop corrective action plans.
• Create detailed process maps to document workflows, identify inefficiencies, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with production, quality, supply chain, and engineering teams to implement improvements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related field.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with manufacturing processes, operations research, time studies, and workflow optimization.
• Proficiency with data analysis tools and industrial engineering methods.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

The Lee Company Advantages:

The Lee Company offers opportunities for career growth in an industry-leading, growing company providing an attractive range of benefits including company-paid health insurance, profit sharing, tuition reimbursement, and daycare subsidy. The Lee Company is situated in southern New England in a rural, campus setting close to the Long Island Sound.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.