Industrial Engineer (IE) Entry level
Sets standard minute values, balances the line, plans layout and manpower, and defends the target when output drops.
Industrial Engineer (IE) — what the job really is
Every role guide, study and toolkit here is free of charge — no candidate fees, no employer fees, no commission. Never pay anyone for a job in this industry.
Works in: Sewing floor and IE office
What you actually do
- Time-study operations and maintain the SMV and capacity study for every style.
- Balance the line at style change-over and re-balance when bottleneck operations shift.
- Prepare layout, workstation and attachment plans before a new style hits the floor.
- Report hourly output, efficiency and off-standard time, and drive the corrective action with supervisors.
- Cost labour minutes for the merchandising team during quotation.
Skills employers screen for
- · Time study, SMV, capacity study and line balancing
- · Excel to a genuinely working standard (pivot tables, lookup, charts)
- · Basic lean tools: takt, bottleneck analysis, 5S, waste walk
- · Confidence talking to supervisors and operators on the floor
Qualification & experience
Diploma or degree in apparel manufacturing, textile or industrial engineering. Many factories hire trainees straight from institute and train the IE method internally.
How to get in — the realistic route
- 1. Finish the free lean and operations material, then time-study a real operation on any sewing machine you can access and write it up.
- 2. Apply as Trainee IE / IE Officer — the standard graduate entry title in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
- 3. Bring one worked example to interview: an operation, its SMV, the bottleneck and what you would change.
Free study to finish first
Real employers hiring this role
Every organisation below is a real company or industry body from the free NOSK.space directory. Contact details and careers pages are published by the organisation itself — always confirm current openings there, because vacancies change weekly.
DBL Group
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Vertically integrated knitwear manufacturing, spinning, dyeing and printing
- Address
- South Avenue Tower, House 50 (6th Floor), Road 3, Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Ha-Meem Group
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Denim and woven garment manufacturing with its own denim mill and washing plants
- Address
- 387 (South) Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka 1208, Bangladesh
- Phone
- +880 2 8170592
Square Fashions Limited
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Knit garment manufacturing within the Square textile group
- Address
- Square Centre, 48 Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
- Phone
- +880 2 883 3047
- info@squaregroup.com
Pacific Jeans Ltd
Chattogram · Bangladesh
Premium denim jeans manufacturing and export from Chattogram EPZ
- Address
- Plot 14-19, Sector 5, CEPZ, Chattogram 4223, Bangladesh
- Phone
- +880 31 741006
Interloop Limited
Faisalabad · Pakistan
Hosiery, denim, knitted apparel and seamless activewear
- Address
- 1 KM Khurrianwala–Jaranwala Road, Khurrianwala, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Phone
- +92 41 4360400
Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru · India
India's largest apparel exporter — knits, wovens and fabric processing
- Address
- Bellandur Gate, Sarjapur Main Road, Bangalore 560 102, Karnataka, India
Epic Group
Hong Kong · Hong Kong SAR (plants in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Jordan)
Multi-country apparel manufacturer and sourcing group
Free explainers that teach this role
Photo and diagram walk-throughs covering the fabric, pattern, machinery and quality knowledge this job is built on — free, no sign-up.
How it works · Free
Order to shipment: how a garment order really flows
Every stage from tech pack to final inspection, what each stage owns, and the handovers where orders usually slip.
Machinery · Free
How a lockstitch machine actually forms a stitch
Needle, hook, bobbin and take-up: the four-part cycle behind stitch class 301, and the settings that decide seam quality.
Sewing techniques · Free
Seam types and stitch classes used in real production
SSa, SSae, LSc, EFb and the stitch classes that go with them — how the seam on the tech pack becomes a machine, a folder and a method.
Other production & industrial engineering roles
Entry level
Production Supervisor / Line Chief
Owns one sewing line hour by hour: manpower, feeding, quality at source and the target board.
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