The industrial engineer has a systemic perspective, this is oriented to decision making as part of his new managerial role, to face new challenges and organizational adversities, through the perception of problems that derive in new solution alternatives oriented to optimization. of results. The purpose of the industrial engineer is to avoid focusing the organization on partial solutions that do not satisfy the required solutions. As part of his organization's performance, he is able to make use of specialized methods and techniques of Industrial Engineering; however, the continuous improvement of Industrial Engineering has allowed a much broader development in terms of the engineer's participation in organizational decisions. This document presents different aspects that are analyzed to determine the impact of the role of the industrial engineer in the management of organizations as an agent of change in continuous change in search of process improvement and competitiveness.