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Position Summary
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is seeking an experienced, proactive Industrial Engineer Staff (Level 4) to serve as a technical lead and coach for Lean manufacturing operations at our production facility in Ocala, FL. 

In this role, you will be the subject matter expert driving plant optimization, workspace producibility, and operational excellence. You will play a pivotal role in reviewing and coaching facility and equipment layout designs in AutoCAD, mentoring junior industrial engineers, and continuously improving both physical layouts and the layout review process itself. 

The ideal candidate blends deep technical proficiency in Lean Manufacturing and 2D/3D plant layout design with strong coaching capabilities to influence cross-functional teams, streamline production workflows, and eliminate waste across high-consequence defense production lines.

Key Responsibilities

• Facility & Equipment Layout Leadership: Lead the design, evaluation, and optimization of complex production facilities, clean rooms, assembly lines, and material staging layouts using AutoCAD.
• Layout Coaching & Quality Reviews: Conduct technical peer reviews of layout packages submitted by team members; coach junior engineers on CAD standards, ergonomic compliance, workflow optimization, and space utilization.
• Process Governance & Continuous Improvement: Own and modernize the layout review and change management process itself, reducing approval cycle times, standardizing drawing templates, and establishing clear tollgate review criteria.
• Lean Manufacturing Implementation: Champion Lean Six Sigma principles across operations, facilitating Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Kaizen events, line balancing, and bottleneck analyses to drive measurable gains in cycle time, WIP, and touch labor reduction.
• Capacity & Operations Planning: Partner with Operations, Quality, Facilities, and Program Management to evaluate capacity constraints, conduct time studies and takt time alignment, and support capital expenditure (CapEx) business cases for facility modifications.
• Training & Mentorship: Foster a culture of continuous learning by standardizing IE best practices, training operations personnel on standardized work, and coaching engineers on producibility guidelines.

Basic Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline with 5+ years of professional related experience.
2. Demonstrated extensive experience in facility layout design, equipment placement, and workspace optimization using AutoCAD.
3. Proven background in Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement methodologies, and workflow optimization in a production environment.
4. Experience conducting operations planning, capacity modeling, line balancing, and cycle time analysis.
5. Strong cross-functional leadership skills with demonstrated experience reviewing technical deliverables and coaching/mentoring engineering peers.
6. Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance (MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN; position is located at a facility that requires special access).

Desired Skills

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience defining or improving layout governance, engineering change management, and drawing revision control workflows.
• Experience in aerospace and defense manufacturing, electronics assembly, or high-reliability electro-mechanical production environments.
• Proficiency in data visualization and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Advanced Excel/VBA) to present operational metrics and business cases to executive leadership.
• Familiarity with discrete event simulation software (e.g., FlexSim, Arena, Simio, or Plant Simulation) to validate layout throughput and buffer sizing.
• Excellent interpersonal, coaching, and stakeholder presentation skills.