Industrial Engineer
Gainesville, GA
Full Time
Experienced
Founded in 2018, SoulShine Farms has quickly grown to be a local further-processing poultry industry leader. Our work revolves around our values, our people, and our dedication to quality.
SoulShine Farms is seeking an experienced Industrial Engineer to improve productivity, labor efficiency, equipment reliability, and facility operations within our poultry-processing facilities. This hands-on role combines industrial engineering, labor optimization, maintenance planning, and CAD drafting..
Key Responsibilities - Industrial Engineering and Labor Optimization
- Conduct time-and-motion studies throughout production, packaging, sanitation, warehousing, and support operations.
- Establish and maintain labor standards by product, process, production line, and SKU.
- Analyze staffing needs based on production volumes, product mix, equipment capacity, and operating conditions.
- Balance production lines to reduce bottlenecks, waiting time, unnecessary movement, and idle time.
- Compare actual labor hours and productivity against established standards.
- Recommend improvements to work methods, staffing models, plant layouts, and material flow.
- Develop and monitor productivity measures such as pounds, pieces, or cases per labor hour.
- Support labor budgeting, forecasting, overtime reduction, and cost-improvement initiatives.
- Validate and track labor savings following implementation of improvement projects.
- Develop detailed preventive and corrective maintenance work plans.
- Define job scope, labor needs, required parts and tools, safety precautions, and estimated completion times.
- Coordinate planned maintenance with production, sanitation, maintenance, and parts-room personnel.
- Maintain equipment records, bills of materials, job plans, and preventive-maintenance procedures within the CMMS.
- Support weekly maintenance scheduling, equipment shutdowns, and planned project work.
- Review equipment history and recurring failures to improve reliability and maintenance strategies.
- Help improve schedule compliance, wrench time, equipment availability, and parts readiness.
- Create and maintain CAD drawings for production lines, equipment, utilities, piping, facilities, and plant layouts.
- Prepare equipment-placement, process-flow, fabrication, installation, and conceptual layout drawings.
- Update drawings following equipment moves, facility modifications, and capital projects.
- Measure existing conditions and support planning of facility and process improvements.
- Maintain an accurate and organized library of plant drawings and technical documents.
- Work with vendors, contractors, engineers, and plant personnel to verify accuracy of drawings.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least ten (10) years of experience in industrial engineering, maintenance planning, manufacturing engineering, or a related role.
- Experience conducting time studies, establishing labor standards, and balancing production lines.
- Proficiency with AutoCAD or comparable CAD software.
- Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, maintenance planning, and CMMS systems.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, data analysis, and reporting skills.
- Ability to read technical drawings, equipment manuals, and process diagrams.
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, communication, and project-management skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Ability to hear, speak, read, and comprehend communications in English.
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Experience in poultry, meat processing, food manufacturing, or another high-volume production environment.
- Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, standard work, or Six Sigma.
- Familiarity with food safety, OSHA requirements, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and sanitary design.
- Experience with labor-management software, predetermined-time standards, or other work-measurement systems.
- Knowledge of equipment reliability, root-cause analysis, and preventive-maintenance optimization.
- Experience developing plant layouts, fabrication drawings, piping drawings, or utility drawings.
At Soulshine Farms, you will have the opportunity to make a visible impact on plant performance, employee productivity, equipment reliability, and future growth. We are looking for someone who brings strong technical knowledge, a practical mindset, and a willingness to work alongside plant teams to turn opportunities into sustainable improvements.
Work Environment
This position is based in Gainesville, Georgia, and requires regular presence on the production floor and may involve working in refrigerated, wet, noisy, and fast-paced poultry-processing environments. Team members must follow all required PPE, sanitation, food-safety, safety, and biosecurity procedures. Occasional weekend, shutdown, off-shift, or after-hours work may be required to support maintenance and facility projects.
Benefits
- Weekly Paychecks
- Six (6) Paid Holidays
- Earned Vacation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (a portion of the premiums is paid by SoulShine Farms)
Interested parties are invited to submit a resume using this online portal. Applications will be reviewed on a regular basis until the job opening is filled.
IMPORTANT: By submitting this application online, you hereby authorize SoulShine Farms to contact, obtain, and verify the accuracy of the information contained in your application from all current and/or previous employers, references, and educational institutions. You also hereby release from liability SoulShine Farms and its representatives for seeking, gathering, and using such information to make employment decisions, and all other persons or organizations for providing such information.
You understand that any misrepresentation or material omission made by you on this application will be sufficient cause for cancellation of your application or immediate termination of employment if you are employed by SoulShine Farms whenever the misrepresentation or material omission is discovered.
SoulShine Farms is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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