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Manager Industrial Engineering

Ryder · Pierre, SD

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Level
Manager
Team
Industrial
Industry
Industrial
Posted
25 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A management industrial role at Ryder (industrial) in Pierre, SD. Manage the design, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of the QMS based on established company and/or industry standards.

Tools it names
Lean, Kaizen, Value stream mapping, Root cause, Internal audits, Automation

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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026

Industrial Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $85k–$125k.

Median of the low and high ends of 80 live postings that list pay, out of 386 industrial engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 385 other live industrial postings in the US.

Base pay
Not listed in this posting

Typical $85k–$124k, from 79 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
Not stated

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Lean 53%
  • ✓ Time studies 36%
  • Six Sigma 33%
  • New product launch 28%
  • ✓ Root cause 24%
  • AutoCAD 23%

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

Stands out: this posting asks for Internal audits, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

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Full description from RyderAs posted on their careers site.Show

Essential Functions

  • ◆Supervise a team of continuous improvement engineering and quality professionals. Lead employment decisions (hire, promote, coach, development) and manage performance. Manages multiple and complex Supply Chain projects. Regularly interacts with Senior Management and/or customer(s).
  • ◆Lead the development and execution of strategy, scorecarding and key performance indicator action plans. Work with Operational leadership to conduct assessments of critical site and business needs. Ensure the development of a thorough, effective and timely continuous improvement plan to address the top business needs at Ryder sites. Ensure process improvement activities are driven to achieve dramatic improvement in key business metrics. Provide regular reports of data and actions to measure progress against performance and business objectives.
  • ◆Provide training, coaching, and mentoring: must be able to translate all Ryder Business System concepts to local situations and help individuals, teams, and managers develop understanding and application of tools for sustainable business improvements. Coach business owners to use Engineering, Data Analysis and Lean methods to achieve operational excellence. Support start-ups, retrofits and expansions including pricing inputs, go-live and steady state certifications.
  • ◆Develop advanced competency in a wide range of engineering methods, data analysis, Lean tools, and quality standards and coach employees in their use. Ensures methodologies/tools such as product slotting, labor standards (time studies), layouts, optimization of flow, data profiling and analysis, automation, data analytics, and resource modeling are utilized to improve distribution and/or transportation operations.
  • ◆Effective facilitation and execution of Value Stream Maps & Kaizen Events through all stages (A3 charter creation, pre-work identification and completion, delivery of results, regular follow up and follow through on sustainment). Independently identifies process gaps and recommends and leads CI Team to implement process improvement. Manage, track, and report the progress and value of the transformational activities and projects across customer accounts. Direct the assessment, development, implementation, and continuous improvement activities related to the implementation of lean processes across accounts.

Additional

Responsibilities

  • ◆Manage the design, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of the QMS based on established company and/or industry standards.
  • ◆Implement and monitor a standardized corrective action system.
  • ◆Support regulatory compliance and certification requirements.
  • ◆Oversee all functions related to Quality Assurance for a start-up or expansion.
  • ◆Oversee internal auditing to ensure regulatory compliance and certification.
  • ◆Performs other duties as assigned
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Manager Industrial Engineering (Remote)

This position supports the Ryder Continuous Improvement culture across the Business Unit/Vertical by actively promoting and facilitating the use of continuous improvement methods to support new and existing operations. The Manager will manage the CI resources across multiple operations to influence, drive, and manage change through data driven CI, Engineering, and Automation efforts to deliver higher levels of performance in safety, quality, delivery, cost and growth. Effectively leverage data analytics, engineering methodologies, and all Ryder lean tools to enable root cause identification and elimination. This high influence position will interface with employees at all levels and functions across the business. This position reports to the CI Director or Sr. CI Manager and is closely aligned with a Director of Operations.

Skills and Abilities

  • •Effective interpersonal skills
  • •Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • •Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)
  • •Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
  • •Flexibility to operate and self-driven to excel in a fast-paced environment
  • •Capable of multi-tasking, highly organized, with excellent time management skills
  • •Builds, manages and develops effective teams
  • •System and change implementation skills
  • •Ability to manage multiple cross-functional and complex CI projects from beginning to sustained results
  • •Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint & Visio expert required
  • •Data visualization (PowerBI, Tableau) and database programming (SQL, DAX, etc.) intermediate preferred
  • •Expertise in developing and managing: Leader Standard Work, Visual Management Systems and Management Accountability Systems, Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen,