Senior Industrial Engineer

Except for frequently traveling Sales Directors, all roles at SABIN are 100% on site. We are a collaborative group often gathered around a dry-erase board. We seek candidates that live or will relocate to within 11 miles of our factory, located at: 4447 W Cortland St, Chicago Il 60639

About Us:

SABIN is a design-forward, rapidly growing company specializing in acoustic and lighting solutions. As demand for our products and services continues to grow, we are seeking a dynamic operational leader to join our team. This role offers solid potential for growth and development.

About Your Role at SABIN:

The Senior Industrial Engineer will be responsible for connecting our manufacturing activities with our commercial activities and business needs; ensuring we have the systems in place to produce quality products on time in a safe and professional manner. Our production environment is both reliant on high levels of craft and engineering. We make our products on demand to suit the needs of the architectural projects we supply; we do not build and stock. You will optimize operations to support this business model. Sabin was founded in 2021 and is now in a period of robust growth; we are establishing processes and policies for the first time. You will design and implement new processes and policies in collaboration with our talented existing team. Sabin has operational problems typical of a growing company, with the resources to solve them. In this role, you will dual report to the CEO and Co-Founder. You will work with the manufacturing, product development, systems, and sales teams to join or lead initiatives to improve and refine our manufacturing processes and operations for improved performance and results. We seek an energetic human focused industrial engineer to serve as an operational leader; to join our effort in continuing to build this great company.

What You’ll Do:

• Learn and know our business: Learn the ins-and-outs of our business demands and dynamics of our B2B commercial transactions. This context helps inform prioritization.
• Organize Data, Labor, Space and Materials: Identify and define problems in our organization and operation, and work with CEO and Co-Founder to prioritize and solve them.
• Industrial Engineering: Analyze and improve our flow of data, labor and materials, Partner with our engineering, systems, and manufacturing teams to implement changes for improved results.
• ERP Implementation: Contribute to the continued implementation of our ERP and MRP systems to serve your needs in reporting process management.
• Production Management: Partner with our manufacturing team to plan our production, scheduling work to best use our factory and team to ship projects accurately and on time.
• Material & Purchasing Planning: Partner with our ERP Systems Manager to design more automated processes to ensure that we have the materials needed to build our jobs. Manage the competing pressures of minimizing our lead-times while minimizing our inventory.

Qualifications:

• Educational Background: A bachelor’s degree or higher in Industrial Engineering is a requirement.
• Manufacturing experience: Direct experience in a manufacturing environment is a core requirement for this role.

Desired Characteristics:

• Critical thinker: Methodical and analytical thinking are essential for this role. Your natural mindset must be rational, fact-finding and process oriented. Your instinct is to organize and bring order, balanced with a belief in the value of remaining nimble.
• Flexible: Cool flexibility is an essential attribute for this role. Being able and willing to try out differing and opposing ideas is important for success in this work. We need a plainspoken natural mediator and listener. The essence of this role is coordinating and connecting different domains; this requires moderation, deliberation, and adaptability.
• Problems Solver: Comfortable with problems, understanding and defining them, and bringing them all to light. Problems are not something to ignore or shy away from but embrace and comprehend fully for solutioning.
• Learner: Curious, striving. You know you do not know everything and are always learning, you believe in continuous improvement, growth, and forward-facing transformations. You expect the same from team-mates, at an earnest rate that works for the business goals and respects the talent of our team.
• Multi-disciplinary Tendencies: We seek candidates that show a history of versatility. This role spans diverse types of work, having a natural interest and experience in a variety of disciplines gives your viewpoint more credibility as a collaborator and leader.
• Comfort with complexity: A mind that enjoys games and puzzles—for project management, untangling coordination puzzles and balancing multi-domain interactions to serve our customer best.
• Imaginative: This is a problem-solving role, the ability to imagine completely fresh solutions, new ways of working and creatively solving problems is imperative.
• Positive and Proactive: Leadership by example, this role requires a hands‑on individual. Someone who is initiative-taking and inspires the same in team-mates.
• Organization & Conscientiousness: Naturally organized, with the ability to be assertive about the needs of the business, while being humane and warm when advocating for those business needs.
• Human-centric: We are looking for an Industrial Engineer with a natural concern for people, with an affinity for our goal of continuing to building an outstanding humane factory. We're focused both well-being and high-productivity, and we pursue a flow-state in our work.

Our Commitment to You:

We offer competitive pay and benefits, and the space to do great work.

SABIN places the highest priority on cultivating an engaging, rewarding, and collaborative workplace. We are building an inclusive and creative environment---this opportunity for creative and professional growth is vital to us.

We have high expectations for ourselves and each other, we work diligently and kindly and listen to one another.

Why Join Us:

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing, vibrant company at the forefront of design in the acoustic and lighting industry. We are a small team in a growing company, with a flat organizational structure that places great responsibility and autonomy in each role. Your ability to adapt, learn, and grow with us will be key to your success and ours.

To learn more about SABIN and our products, please visit SABIN.DESIGN