We’re looking for a hands-on, factory-present Continuous Improvement Manager to lead kaizen efforts and drive measurable gains in cost, quality, and throughput across a complex, high-variation manufacturing environment. This is a rare opportunity to influence how an entire facility operates, from how metal is fabricated to how fully assembled truck bodies roll off the line.
You’ll work across all major departments, fabrication, assembly, paint, decal, and more, partnering with team leads, engineers, and frontline staff to eliminate waste, improve flow, and build a culture of continuous improvement. With one direct report and strong leadership backing, you’ll shape CI strategy while staying grounded in hands-on execution. If you’re someone with a manufacturing engineering or operations background who thrives on the floor, sees systems holistically, and leads through influence and data, this role offers a wide runway to make a lasting impact.
This is not just a desk job. Your work will be felt across every inch of the shop floor, by welders, operators, supervisors, and the customers who rely on the quality of what gets built here.
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Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”
Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.
Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.
We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.
We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.
