Cart.com

Senior Industrial Engineer

Cart.com$90K — $130K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in 3PL, distribution, fulfillment, or supply chain engineering
  • Proficient in SQL, with experience writing and optimizing queries
  • Applied Lean or Six Sigma methodologies in operational settings
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives
  • Experience with warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse control systems (WCS)
  • Exposure to warehouse automation technologies
  • Strong communication, documentation, and project management skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex industrial engineering projects end-to-end
  • Mentor junior engineers and engineering interns
  • Redesign and optimize facility layouts and space designs
  • Conduct detailed time studies and work measurement
  • Implement Lean/Six Sigma initiatives to enhance operational efficiency
  • Build and maintain analytical models for data-driven decision making
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive operational improvements

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
  • Culture focused on continuous improvement and engineering excellence
  • Engagement in challenging and impactful projects across multiple facilities
  • Cross-functional collaboration with various teams including operations and finance
  • Flexibility for remote work options and travel requirements
Full Job Description

Job Description:

This position is open to applicants or individuals who are located in or willing to move to AZ, CA,CO, CT,DE,FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, MD, MA, MI, MS, NE, NV, NJ, NY, NC,OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA.

The Role:

The Senior Industrial Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading complex industrial engineering initiatives across sites and functions. This role owns projects end-to-end, translating engineering analysis into operational improvements and measurable business results while mentoring junior engineers.

The Senior Industrial Engineer independently leads labor modeling, capacity planning, layout and process redesign, and capital justification initiatives. This role develops and validates analytical models, partners with operations leadership on execution, supports site launches and expansions, and establishes engineering standards. The Senior Industrial Engineer serves as a technical mentor and plays a key role in cross-functional initiatives impacting multiple facilities.

Youll lead building launches and shutdowns, spearhead network-wide layout redesigns, deliver data-driven process optimization, and partner cross-functionally with operations, finance, software engineering, and client services. This role was created to expand the scope of an exceptional engineerit demands someone who can zoom out to see the network, zoom in to solve the problem, and bring others along for both.

What Youl Do:

Engineering Leadership & Team Development

  • Mentor, and coach junior engineers and engineering interns, setting standards for analysis quality, project execution, and documentation

  • Drive a culture of continuous improvement, intellectual curiosity, and engineering rigor within the team

Building Launches, Shutdowns & Network Projects

  • Assist multi-site or network-level industrial engineering projects, coordinating across stakeholders to meet scope, schedule, and budget targets

  • Develop and maintain project timelines, risk logs, and milestone deliverables for complex, long-horizon initiatives

Facility Layout & Space Design

  • Redesign and optimize building layouts, including storage configurations, process flow paths, workstation design, and dock utilization

  • Conduct space planning analyses to maximize throughput, minimize travel distance, and support peak volume requirements

  • Collaborate with facilities, WMS/WCS teams, and automation vendors to translate layout designs into operational realities

  • Develop slotting strategies and SKU profiling analyses to improve warehouse efficiency and reduce handling costs

Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement

  • Lead moderate/complex Lean/Six Sigma initiatives across the fulfillment network, identifying and eliminating waste in receiving, pick, pack, sort, and ship operations

  • Conduct detailed time studies and work measurement to establish and validate labor standards

  • Redesign process flows, SOP structures, and workstation configurations to improve throughput and reduce variability

  • Evaluate and improve operational cost drivers including UPH, CPU, labor utilization, and partner profitability metrics

Data Analysis & Reporting

  • Build and maintain analytical models to support operational forecasting, staffing planning, capital expenditure (Capex) justifications, and improvement analyses

  • Develop SQL queries, Python scripts, and reporting dashboards to surface actionable insights from WMS, WCS, and ERP data sources

  • Analyze data from prospective fulfillment partners to generate costing models used in structuring new partner agreements

  • Perform post-launch studies to compare model accuracy against actual performance and close the feedback loop on predictive tools

  • Build meaningful summaries and data reporting on partner profitability, network performance, and engineering project ROI

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Support operational and financial forecasting cycles, contributing engineering-driven input on productivity, capacity, and cost

  • Determine optimal WMS configuration and floor process setup for new fulfillment partners

  • Perform other related duties as required and assigned

Who You Are:

  • A systems thinker who can manage network-level complexity while staying precise at the detail level

  • An effective people leader who invests in others growth and holds your team to high engineering standards

  • Comfortable owning a project from whiteboard to go-liveand everything in between

  • A strong communicator who can translate technical analysis into clear business recommendations for non-engineering audiences

  • Energized by ambiguity and fast-moving environmentsyou build structure where there isnt any

  • Proficient with data tooling and willing to get hands-on when the problem calls for it

  • Collaborative by default, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and advocate for sound engineering decisions

What Youve Done:

  •  5+ years of experience in 3PL, distribution, fulfillment and/or supply chain engineering

  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

  • Applied Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent continuous improvement methodologies in an operational environment (certification preferred)

  • Built and deployed analytical models for labor planning, Capex justification, partner profitability, or capacity forecasting

  • Proficient in SQL; experience writing, debugging, and optimizing queries against production or operational databases

  • Working knowledge of WMS and WCS platforms; experience configuring or optimizing system setups in a fulfillment context

  • Exposure to warehouse automation technologies (conveyors, sorters, robotics, goods-to-person systems)

  • Skilled in Microsoft Office Suiteparticularly Excel (advanced), PowerPoint, and Access

  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with finance, operations, sales, and client-facing teams

  • Strong communication, documentation, and project management skills with high attention to detail

Nice to Haves:

  • Six Sigma Black Belt or Lean Master certification

  • Experience with goods-to-person automation platforms (Locus, 6 River, AutoStore, Symbotic, etc.)

  • Experience in a 3PL or multi-client fulfillment environment

  • Exposure to greenfield facility design from a real estate or construction coordination perspective

  • Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a closely related field

  • MBA or advanced degree complementing engineering background

  • Experience with BI tooling such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker for operational reporting

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

  • You are comfortable working in a warehouse/fulfillment center.

  • You are comfortable with up to 25% travel.

About Cart.com

Cart.com is an e-commerce platform that helps businesses create and manage their online stores. The platform offers a range of features, including website design, product management, payment processing, and shipping logistics. Cart.com's solutions are designed to be user-friendly and customizable, allowing businesses to create a unique online shopping experience for their customers. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Learn more about Cart.com
Size
100 employees
Industry
Net Income
-$5 million
Founded
2020
Revenue
$10 million
NASDAQ

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