Job Title: Industrial Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
Compensation: $75,000.00 - $85,000.00/year.
Schedule: 40 hours/week
About the Opportunity:
- We are seeking an Industrial Engineer to help us reach that purpose by ensuring that we are leaders and best in the heat transfer industry while caring for our workforce, communities, and environment.
- This is an extremely unique opportunity for an industrial engineer to design, implement, and improve dedicated value stream production cells to support an exciting growth opportunity for our company.
- This position is hands-on and requires a significant amount of time on the manufacturing floor working collaboratively with operators, supervisors, and the Production Manager.
- The Industrial Engineer will also serve as a key link between sales engineering and production, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement through design for manufacturing.
- This is a high visibility position that is central to supporting a culture of continuous improvement through employee engagement.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Measure labor content of varying models in order to create standard staffing plans and production processes.
- Develop and install mixed model line balances to efficiently meet customer demand.
- Collaborate with operators and leadership to design and implement value stream layouts in the production workspace.
- Lead and participate in 5S exercises to remove operator's frustrations and improve organization.
- Work together with the training manager to develop training content to ensure continuity of knowledge and maintain standard processes.
- Investigate and implement continuous improvement opportunities and ideas.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency or quality through fixturing opportunities and work with manufacturing engineers to develop and implement solutions.
- Create, in coordination with operators, production metrics to encourage self-measurement and engagement in success.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 3+ years of experience with 2D CAD software for layout development.
What Sets You Apart:
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering.
- Understanding of basic Industrial Engineering concepts such as work measurement, line balancing, 5S, etc.
- Excellent communication skills with people in all levels of the organization.
- Action oriented, hands-on person who is excited to solve problems and continuously improve the production environment.
- Action oriented, hands-on person who is excited to solve problems and continuously improve the production environment.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
- Ability to work flexible hours.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Oct 08, 2026