Industrial Engineer (Loxley)
Ace Hardware · Loxley, AL
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Industrial
- Base pay
- $75k–$95k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level industrial role at Ace Hardware (industrial) in Loxley, AL. Be a safety champion by promoting a safe and productive workplace through your own actions, including the proper use of PPE, safe operation of powered equipment and safe lifting techniques as determined by the role.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Time studies
- Base pay
- $75k–$95k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Industrial Engineer roles in Alabama: typical posted base $83k–$145k. This one lists $75k–$95k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 10 industrial engineer openings in Alabama, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Alabama plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 9 other live industrial postings in Alabama.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 10+)
Similar roles usually ask 10+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 70%
- New product launch 30%
- Cost reduction 30%
- Team leadership 30%
- ✓ Time studies 30%
- Six Sigma 20%
✓ = 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
Pick 2–3 people on the Industrial team at Ace Hardware
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 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
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 does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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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
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.
Full description from Ace HardwareAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
have been met). Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discretionary) for fully eligible employees have averaged 10.4% of total eligible compensation
- ✓Ace invests in every employee we hire, with a key focus on development and coaching. We offer on-site classes, facilitator-led courses, and a generous tuition assistance program, plus a performance management approach that goes beyond the typical annual review.
- ✓Your career at Ace is more than just a job. It\'s a chance to be part of something meaningful. We help locally-owned businesses thrive and make an impact in their communities - and we support our employees in doing the same by offering our employees opportunities to help Children\'s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Ace Helpful Fund through the Ace Foundation.
- ✓Employee discounts on Ace merchandise (including top brands like Weber, Traeger, Yeti, Craftsman, DeWalt and more), travel, fitness, computers and thousands more.
- ✓Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - access to free visits to therapists and lawyers, guidance on f
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Industrial Engineer - Loxley, AL RSC
About this role
The Industrial Engineer will drive process improvement activities to achieve dramatic improvement in the key business metrics of safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee development . Develop advanced competency in wide range of engineering methods, Lean tools, and quality standards and coaches\' employees in the use and implementation of CI, Quality Assurance, & Lean principles. Applies company methodologies and tools, engineering methodologies/tools such as product slotting, studying labor standards (time studies), layouts and optimization of flow, data profiling and analysis, and resource modeling to improve distribution and/or transportation operations
What You\'ll Do
- •Lead, support and encourage Ace Values: Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility and Teamwork.
- •Develop advanced competency in wide range of engineering methods, Lean tools, and quality standards.
- •Coaches employees in the use and implementation of Continuous Improvement, Quality Assurance, & Lean principles.
- •Applies company methodologies and tools, engineering methodologies/tools such as product slotting, studying labor standards (time studies), layouts and optimization of flow, data profiling and analysis, and resource modeling to improve distribution and/or transportation operations.
- •Provide regular reports of data and actions to measure progress against the site objectives .
- •Makes Inventory and/or Supply Chain strategy recommendations.
- •Works on complex problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- •Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- •Establishes and implements performance measures.
- •Work with site leadership to conduct assessments of critical site and business needs.
- •Develop a thorough effective and timely continuous improvement plan to address the top business needs at Ace sites.
Ace Hardware is committed to promoting and maintaining a safe, healthy and injury-free environment for all team members. This is our number one priority, and we will support programs and initiatives that focus on this commitment. It is critical that all team members take responsibility for their safety as well as the safety of others to ensure that Ace Hardware is a world class safety organization.
to succeed
- •Be a safety champion by promoting a safe and productive workplace through your own actions, including the proper use of PPE, safe operation of powered equipment and safe lifting techniques as determined by the role.
- •Be an active participant in contributing to a successful safety culture in the facility.
- •10% travel required .
- •B.S. Industrial Engineering or related degree required .
- •1 -2 years\' experience in Supply Chain Management/Logistics/Warehousing or related field.
- •Demonstrated excellent communication skills, both written and verbal to effectively communicate thoughts and sell ideas.
- •Strong organizational and collaborative skills to include team building.
- •Experience with profiling, quality program, incentives, etc. all systems and diagnostics related
- •Expertise in measurement, data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation to support decision making or change management.
- •Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and Power Point.
- •Working knowledge of analytical and programming tools such as R (or equivalent), Visual Basic, etc.