Also called: Director of Operational Excellence, Engineering Manager
Leads a team of industrial engineers improving how a company's factories, warehouses or hospitals run.
You review your team's plans to redesign a warehouse, approve a $2 million robot purchase, and coach a new engineer. Then you present savings to the vice president and decide which plant your team tackles next.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in industrial engineering plus 8-12 years of experience; MBA common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Business Administration.
Growing about average. Tracks engineering managers.
Low risk for 10 years. AI dashboards speed analysis; leading people, setting priorities and driving change on the floor stay human.
Classes: Statistics, Business or economics, Speech or debate, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-9041.
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