Industrial Engineering Manager

The Industrial Engineering Manager serves as a critical technical leader responsible for translating supply strategy into actionable, data-driven deliverables across the network. This role owns capacity modeling, capital planning, and capital governance processes while ensuring robust supply support for innovation and growth. Operating as an individual contributor, this role combines deep analytical expertise with cross-functional influence to drive decision quality, optimize asset utilization, and enable scalable growth. The position also serves as a peer mentor to Process Engineers, elevating technical rigor and standardization across the function.

What You’ll Do:

• Own end-to-end capacity modeling across technologies and sites, ensuring alignment between demand, supply capabilities, and strategic growth plans.

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve capacity models and scenarios (what-if analyses) to enable proactive decision-making.

• Lead capital planning activities, including project identification, prioritization, and long-range capital roadmap development.

• Support and execute Capital Appropriation Budget (CAB) processes, including business case development, financial modeling, and cross-functional alignment.

• Establish and reinforce capital governance standards, ensuring consistency, rigor, and transparency in investment decisions.

• Provide analytical support to supply, innovation, sustainability, and S&OP processes, ensuring capacity readiness for new product launches and portfolio changes.

• Partner closely with Operations, Finance, and R&D to ensure optimal COGS, asset utilization, and supply responsiveness.

• Build and maintain reporting and metrics to track capacity utilization, capital performance, productivity, and sustainability outcomes.

• Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities in modeling, planning processes, and data accuracy.

• Act as a technical thought partner and peer mentor to Process Engineers, providing guidance on models, tools, and analytical approaches.

• Support development of standard work, tools, and best practices across the IE function.

• Other duties as assigned or necessary.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field (required)

• 5+ years of relevant experience in industrial engineering, capacity planning, or manufacturing analytics

• Advanced expertise in capacity modeling, data analysis, and scenario planning

• Experience supporting capital project justification and financial modeling

• Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, asset utilization, and production flows

• Strong understanding of cost structures, capital efficiency, and financial or risk based tradeoffs

• Proficiency in data tools (e.g., Excel advanced modeling, Power BI, or similar analytics platforms)

• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.)

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority in a cross-functional environment

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights

• High level of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement mindset

Healthy, Diverse Teams Breed Innovation:

Kevin’s Natural Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We deeply believe that diverse backgrounds and experiences make better teams, and we seek to attract talent from all walks of life. The team at Kevin’s is smart, humble, and passionate and we value a work environment that fosters personal development and opportunities to move within our small, but quickly growing organization.

More About Kevin’s Natural Foods:

Kevin's Natural Foods is a line of refrigerated and frozen meals, sides, soups, and sauces on a mission to empower even the busiest people to eat clean without sacrificing flavor. Co-founded by Kevin McCray who battled an auto-immune disorder for years, Kevin's Natural Foods was born from his desire to make clean eating seamlessly fit into any lifestyle. Shockingly delicious and made with clean ingredients, Kevin’s products are ready in minutes and always free from gluten, soy, and refined sugar.

In 2023, Kevin’s Natural Foods joined the Mars Food & Nutrition family, allowing us to expand our reach, accelerate innovation, and bring our mission to even more households while staying true to the quality and integrity that define our brand. A true market disruptor, Kevin's is the first clean refrigerated entrée brand working to prove every day that proper nutrition can be as delicious as it is healthy.

Salary Range: $100,000.00- $115,000.00 annually + benefits + bonus

Compensation within this salary range is dependent upon the candidate's experience, education, and relevant qualifications

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