Industrial Engineer - Manufacturing Analytics in Crestview

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Crestview Aerospace Overview

Crestview Aerospace is a manufacturing organization working closely with large aircraft and weapon systems OEMs, such as Boeing Defense, Bell, RTX/Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, and several others to deliver complex design-to-build and build-to print assemblies. Crestview Aerospace provides these assemblies in support of in-service platforms, such as: H-47, V-22, F-35, F-15, F-16, F-18, KC-135, E-2, and weapon systems such as Harpoon and SLAM-ER. Crestview Aerospace is comprised of two (2) manufacturing sites, with operations in St. Louis, Missouri and Crestview, FL, and employs approximately 300 professionals.

Job Details

The Industrial Engineer – Manufacturing Analytics applies industrial engineering principles, statistical analysis, and manufacturing systems knowledge to improve productivity, quality, cost, and delivery performance in a regulated production environment.

This role serves as a technical bridge between data, operations, and decision-making, using analytics and visualization as tools to understand system behavior, quantify trade-offs, and drive continuous improvement across manufacturing, quality, and supply-chain functions.

The position is intentionally cross-functional and outcomes-oriented, offering the opportunity to influence how data is transformed into operational insight and how insight is translated into action.

Objectives

• Apply industrial engineering methodologies to analyze and improve manufacturing systems, workflows, and supporting information streams.
• Develop, maintain, and evolve operational and manufacturing performance metrics aligned with business, quality, and production objectives.
• Use statistical analysis and modeling to identify trends, variability, constraints, and root causes impacting performance.
• Enable fact-based decision-making by translating complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.
• Support and sustain continuous improvement initiatives through structured analysis, engineering judgment, and effective communication.

Responsibilities – Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing Systems

• Analyze production systems to identify opportunities for improvement in cycle time, throughput, labor efficiency, cost, and material flow.
• Define, monitor, and refine key performance indicators (KPIs) tied to productivity, quality, delivery, and resource utilization.
• Evaluate sources of process variation and performance degradation using statistical and system-level analysis.
• Support capacity analysis, production planning, and workload balancing through data-driven assessments.

Responsibilities – Analytics & Data Infrastructure

• Develop and maintain decision-support tools, dashboards, and analytical models (Power BI or equivalent) to enable operational visibility.
• Extract, integrate, clean, and validate data from ERP and manufacturing systems, ensuring integrity, traceability, and consistency.
• Design repeatable analytical workflows to improve scalability and sustainability of manufacturing analytics.

Responsibilities – Operational & Cross Functional Engagement

• Partner with operations, quality, supply chain, engineering, and leadership stakeholders to frame problems, interpret results, and recommend actions.
• Translate analytical findings into practical recommendations grounded in manufacturing realities.
• Communicate insights effectively to audiences ranging from technical contributors to executive leadership.
• Contribute to structured problem-solving and process-improvement efforts, supporting implementation and performance tracking.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience applying industrial engineering, manufacturing analytics, or operations analysis in a production environment.
• Strong foundation in statistics, data analysis, and quantitative problem-solving.
• Experience working with manufacturing data, such as BOMs, routings, production metrics, or ERP-based systems.
• Proficiency with Excel and SQL for analysis, modeling, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Exposure to continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean or structured problem-solving.
• Experience building or maintaining manufacturing dashboards or performance reporting tools.
• Familiarity with engineering economics, cost modeling, or productivity analysis.
• Coursework or practical experience in operations research, optimization, or simulation.
• Proven success working in cross-functional, team-oriented environments.

Work Environment

• Primarily works in a manufacturing setting with exposure to machinery and production equipment.
• Requires standing for extended periods and occasional lifting of materials.
• May involve occasional travel to suppliers or other company locations.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee may be required to follow other instructions and to perform other duties requested by their supervisor.

Physical Requirements:

Primarily manufacturing/assembly environment. Must be able to work in the following environmental conditions: noise, vibration, proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current. Must be able to bend and reach. Must have close visual acuity such as viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading, visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines, and/or assembly or fabrication parts at close distance to the eyes. Must be able to communicate effectively. Must be able to maneuver up to 20 pounds. Will be performing substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Crestview Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits, hires, trains, and promotes employees in all job classifications without regard to , , , , , , , marital status, , , veteran's status, or other legally protected status. Sponsorship is not available for this role. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US on a permanent and consistent basis without company sponsorship now and in the future. This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. , U.S. Permanent (i.e., 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.