Engineer - Industrial
- Location
- Pella, IA
- Listed
- 3 days ago
Job Summary
Are you someone who enjoys improving processes, enhancing efficiency, and supporting teams in bringing high-quality products to life? As an Engineer I - Industrial at Vermeer, you will contribute to manufacturing and product development initiatives that strengthen operational performance and support a culture of continuous improvement. You'll help drive meaningful impact by improving workflow, supporting lean activities, and advancing production excellence across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Support development, analysis, and improvement of value stream maps to identify waste and enhance operational flow, identifying inefficiencies and proposing early-stage improvement ideas.
- Assist with plant, line, and workstation layout design including material flow, ergonomics, safety, and space utilization by creating or updating basic Computer-Aided Design (CAD) drawings using tools such as AutoCAD, DraftSight, or SOLIDWORKS.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities such as 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain), Kaizen events, waste identification, and fundamental root cause analysis.
- Contribute to cost-reduction and productivity-improvement initiatives through supporting data collection, workflow observation, and documentation accuracy.
- Create, update, and maintain standard work documentation, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Standard Operating Sequence (SOS), and Digital Instructions (DI), ensuring clarity and alignment with process changes.
- Support Engineering Change Notice (ECN) updates by gathering documentation, revising standard work elements, and helping ensure accurate implementation.
- Assist with time studies, cycle-time observations, and exposure to basic takt-time and capacity concepts to help strengthen analytical skills and support process improvements.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Foundational knowledge of lean manufacturing and process-improvement methodologies, with the ability to define, analyze, and improve value stream maps.
- Experience or exposure to continuous improvement tools such as 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain), Kaizen, waste identification, and basic root cause analysis.
- Familiarity with plant, line, or workstation layout concepts including ergonomics, safety, material flow, and space utilization.
- Exposure to CAD tools such as AutoCAD, DraftSight, or SOLIDWORKS, and awareness of Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) or formal change-management processes.
- Experience collaborating on cross-functional projects supporting manufacturing, engineering, quality, or operations teams.
- Ability to create or maintain manufacturing documentation such as SOP, SOS, or DI.
Travel
- Occasional travel may be expected.
Work Location
ONSITE: A team member's day-to-day work is best done on a Vermeer campus. If work content can be occasionally completed at an offsite location, discuss potential arrangements with your manager.
Who We Are
Vermeer equips customers doing important work around the world. We are global, driven by innovation and growing. The equipment we make manages natural resources, connects people and feeds and fuels communities. We live out a caring culture, we demonstrate agility, we keep a focus on customers and are stewards of our resources. These beliefs drive our culture, determine how we treat others and steer our business.
Work Shift
1 - First Shift
Equal opportunity and legal notices
At Vermeer Corporation, we believe in the value of your unique identity, background, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other status protected by the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact Team Member Solutions at or at.
Interested? We'd love to get to know you.
From Vermeer's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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