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Industrial Engineer

Sukup Manufacturing · Sheffield, AL

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Level
Engineer
Team
Industrial
Degree
Preferred
Industry
Industrial
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The role in 30 seconds

An engineer-level industrial role at Sukup Manufacturing (industrial) in Sheffield, AL. Review, recommend, prioritize and support process and machine/equipment development activities to include capital equipment justification, specification, and procurement.

They ask for
degree preferred
Tools it names
Lean, FMEA, Welding, Capacity planning, SolidWorks, AutoCAD

Read from the posting. The full description is below.

From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Industrial Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $86k–$125k.

Median of the low and high ends of 69 live postings that list pay, out of 260 industrial engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

Alabama plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →

How this role compares

Against 7 other live industrial postings in Alabama.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ New product launch 63%
  • ✓ Lean 38%
  • ✓ Cost reduction 38%
  • ✓ AutoCAD 25%
  • ✓ Capacity planning 25%
  • Root cause 25%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

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How to get in at this plant

Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.

  1. 1

    Pick 2–3 people on the Industrial team at Sukup Manufacturing

    Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.

  2. 2

    Send a short, curious note

    One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.

  3. 3

    Turn a reply into a short call

    Questions worth asking about this team:

    • What does a normal week look like on your team?
    • Is it more layout and capacity work, or time studies and standard work?
    • How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
  4. 4

    Apply with someone vouching for you

    If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.

  5. 5

    Bring proof to the interview

    One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.

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Requirements

  • ✓Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or Engineering / Manufacturing Technology is preferred or equivalent work experience
  • ✓Working knowledge driving and implementing continuous improvement efforts
  • ✓Proven team player, leadership, and communication skills
  • ✓Ability to collaborate and partner
  • ✓Ability to exercise sound judgement to balance business needs and achieve objectives
  • ✓Strong oral, written and presentation skills at all levels of an organization
  • ✓Ability to organize and manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities
  • ✓Action-oriented, self-starter

Job Duties

  • ◆Lead large, complex projects, of substantial cost and impact to the organization as needed
  • ◆Helps conduct constraint analysis and capacity planning initiatives and supports and executes plans to design and implement improvements to manufacturing layouts, equipment, tools, workforce plans, technology and solutions to ensure capacity meets demand
  • ◆Key stakeholder and in new product development process with emphasis on design for manufacturability on the front end, seamless launch, and ownership on the back end in the areas of labor standards, layouts, and flow
  • ◆Focused on Safety, Ergonomics, Quality, First Pass Yield, Material Presentation, Material Flow, Inventory Reduction, Cost Reduction, Product Availability, Capacity, and Productivity
  • ◆Ensures the Industrial Engineering role stays current with best practices, trends, advancements, and incorporates this knowledge into new products and processes
  • ◆Routinely make decisions to resolves manufacturing problems to meet customer safety, design, quality, delivery, and cost expectations
  • ◆Review, recommend, prioritize and support process and machine/equipment development activities to include capital equipment justification, specification, and procurement
  • ◆Responsible for developing and implementing manufacturing processes that are safe, ergonomic, robust, repeatable, process capable, and balanced
  • ◆Responsible for developing process documents, work instructions, and accurate costing
  • ◆Responsible for the deployment of labor production targets, by line or area that are measured, visible, obtainable, and are displayed on a real time basis
  • ◆Actively pursues and implements continuous improvement tools and methods such as Design for Manufacturability and Assembly, process FMEA's, and Lean initiatives that ensure manufacturing operations production process's meet or exceed customer expectations
  • ◆Teaching and developing a culture of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement

It is, and will continue to be, the policy of Sukup Manufacturing Co. to practice a program of equal employment designed to assure that all employment decisions and advancement opportunities are made available to all employees and applicants on the basis of individual

qualifications

and without unlawful regard to race, religion, veteran status, national origin, disability, age or sex.

Immigration Sponsorship: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Sukup Manufacturing Co. is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time unless explicitly annotated within the individual job posting.

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Industrial Engineering Position

The Industrial Engineering role will be incorporated into the Manufacturing Engineering department which is responsible for establishing and continuously improving the Manufacturing Engineering organization and related engineering team, competencies, processes, tools and standards across all manufacturing locations. This role partners across manufacturing, engineering and supporting functions to effectively bring new products to market, create and improve world class operations for primaries, welding, paint, assembly, packing/bundling, load building and other core manufacturing processes. This position is also responsible for enabling a culture of change, transformation, and development in manufacturing through continuous improvement and lean concepts and philosophies.

Essential Job

Preferred Skills

  • +Basic knowledge of Microsoft office tools
  • +Working knowledge of manufacturing systems and tools such as ERP, MES, Solidworks, PDM, and AutoCAD
  • +Provide data/data analytics in support of departmental and other functional areas needs

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