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Director - Industrial Engineering

Wesco
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Remote
USD 139693-244463 yearly / year
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Responsibilities

  • Own the creation, governance, and maintenance of labor standards across all segment processes
  • Lead facility layout, workflow engineering, and process solutioning to optimize throughput, space utilization, and labor efficiency. Evaluate existing facilities and recommend layout, racking, equipment, and process-flow solutions to maximize capacity before expansion.
  • Create scalable segment-oriented facility designs for new builds, retrofits, and expansions across the U.S., Canada, and broader global network.
  • Partner with cross functional teams (IT/OPS) to analyze the labor impact of WMS changes (slotting, task logic, pick paths) into standard models.
  • Work with Lean/OPs teams to embed standards into CI initiatives and validate performance against benchmarks.
  • Partner with the analytics team to ensure labor standards and models translate into measurable reporting and network KPIs.
  • Review facility drawings and data, develop layout recommendations, and partner with contractors and internal stakeholders to support facility design and optimization projects.
  • Supervises, coaches, recruits, and mentors direct and indirect reports.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree – Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field required
  • Masters Degree – MBA preferred
  • 10 years of progressive fulfillment industrial engineering or operations engineering experience
  • Deep expertise in engineered labor standards, time studies, and activity level productivity modeling
  • Experience designing distribution facilities, process engineering, and labor management systems
  • Demonstrated experience designing and optimizing large-scale distribution, fulfillment, or manufacturing facilities, including facility layout, workflow optimization, process design, racking, equipment, capacity, and space utilization.
  • Experience reading facility drawings and using CAD or similar facility-design tools, with the ability to create or modify basic layouts.
  • Strong knowledge of WMS/LMS workflows and their impacts on labor standards
  • Demonstrated ability to partner cross functionally with Automation, Operations, Analytics, Lean, and IT
  • Engineered labor standards development and time study methodology
  • Activity – level labor modeling for manual and automated workflows
  • Facility layout, workflow optimization, and process design
  • Strong project management, stakeholder influence, and executive influence
  • Previous experience directly managing and developing engineering professionals.
  • Ability to translate complex engineering concepts and recommendations into clear business outcomes for operational and executive stakeholders.
  • Lean Six/Sigma continuous improvement methods preferred
  • Ability to travel 25% - 50%
  • Working Environment: Warehouse – Work is generally performed in a warehouse environment. The noise level is moderately quiet. Generally well ventilated and well lighted. Warehouse employees may be exposed to all kinds of weather and may be required to wear protective clothing. Operates heavy equipment. Strict safety regulations may be required.
  • Physical Expectations: Employee required to sit and drive a vehicle to perform their job.
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