Manufacturing Process Engineer
Overview:
In this role you will lead data-driven improvements to warehouse and aftermarket operations, enhancing efficiency, inventory accuracy, capacity, and order fulfillment. You'll shape future-state warehouse layouts and processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver safer, more economical material flow. You drive Kaizen initiatives, establish KPIs, and implement Lean Six Sigma methods to sustain results. This is a hands-on engineering role with significant change leadership and a focus on customer service impact. Compensation / Benefits Collaborative, 100% employee-owned culture Profit-Sharing and ESOPFive days/year paid Community Service TimeStrong commitment to Environmental Stewardship Stable, growing organization with no-layoff philosophy
Responsibilities:
- Lead warehouse process-improvement projects to boost efficiency, accuracy, capacity, product flow, and order fulfillment performance
- Analyze current-state workflows and data to identify, prioritize, and quantify improvement opportunities (Kaizen)
- Design future-state warehouse layouts and storage solutions to improve space utilization, safety, ergonomics, and flow
- Develop processes, workstations, tooling, and equipment solutions for aftermarket order fulfillment
- Evaluate and support purchase, implementation, programming, operation, and maintenance of new equipment
- Create and maintain process instructions, standard work, and other technical documentation
- Define KPI models and measure performance using Power BI, SQL, and other analytical tools
- Apply Lean Six Sigma, root-cause analysis, pFMEA, and corrective-action practices to problems with incomplete data
- Manage projects from concept through implementation, coordinating scope, schedule, budget, stakeholders, and risk
- Collaborate with warehouse and production teams to resolve technical issues and integrate safety requirements into processes and equipment
Key requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, industrial, mechanical, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Two+ years of relevant manufacturing, warehouse, distribution, order fulfillment, or process-engineering experience
- Experience designing and implementing warehouse layouts for material storage and flow
- Experience designing processes and selecting equipment for aftermarket order fulfillment
- Demonstrated ability to use data to evaluate opportunities, build business cases, and measure results
- Working knowledge of project management, process documentation, safety integration, and continuous-improvement methods
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
- Proficiency with SQL, SolidWorks, and Power BISound judgment and comfort making well-reasoned decisions when data is incomplete
- Strong collaboration, communication, organization, and problem-solving skillscollaborationcommunicationorganizationSQLPower BISolidWorks