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Optimize How We Build, Pack, and Ship at Scale📍
Role: Senior Process Engineer
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Company: Coastal Trading Ventures (CTV)
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Location: Fort Worth, TX (Warehouse, Onsite)
You might currently be a Industrial Engineer, Process Engineer (Supply Chain), Continuous Improvement Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Lean/Six Sigma Engineer, or Program Manager (Industrial Engineering). If you've built labor standards from scratch, run time-and-motion studies on a live warehouse floor, and turned line-balancing or slotting redesigns into measurable cost-per-unit savings, you'll recognize this role.
This is a greenfield seat. We're building our own WMS in-house, and you'd be the first industrial engineer on the ground shaping it, not adapting your process to someone else's off-the-shelf software, but defining how physical labor flow and system logic fit together from scratch across an 8,000+ SKU environment.
We're not just moving products, we're building the infrastructure behind one of the fastest-growing Amazon operations in the country. We're looking for an Industrial Engineer to own the efficiency of our warehouse operations: eliminating waste, setting labor standards, and redesigning workflows across an 8,000+ SKU fulfillment environment.
If you want to see your work translate directly into P&L impact - fewer wasted steps, lower cost-per-unit, faster throughput, we'd love to meet you.
🎯 What You'll Be Doing- Serve as the first industrial engineer on the ground for our in-house WMS build, shaping system logic around real physical workflows rather than retrofitting process to an existing platform
- Identify and eliminate non-value-added activities across all warehouse zones
- Conduct floor-level time-and-motion studies to establish baseline labor standards and standardized work procedures
- Analyze high-volume kitting and assembly workflows to break through labor bottlenecks in manual packaging (shrink-wrapping, boxing, bundling)
- Optimize line-balancing, ergonomics, and component presentation to minimize operator reach, wait, and walk time across 8,000+ SKUs
- Redesign pack stations, slotting logic, and pick paths to reduce travel time and eliminate unnecessary forklift and pedestrian movement
- Map physical labor flow against our in-development WMS to identify gaps where software limitations force manual workarounds, and feed those findings directly into the build
- Build poka-yoke (error-proofing) guardrails to ensure inventory flows without manual intervention or rework
- Partner with Operations leadership to measure and report cost-savings metrics, translating physical efficiency gains into lower operational labor cost-per-unit
- Own the KPIs that measure warehouse efficiency and inventory health - labor cost-per-unit, shrink rate, pick accuracy - distinguishing when a metric plateau signals a data problem versus a process problem before proposing a fix
• What You Bring- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or related engineering discipline
- Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt minimum; Black Belt or Master Black Belt preferred)
- 5+ years of experience in process optimization and continuous improvement
- Proven hands-on experience in e-commerce fulfillment, 3PL, or high-volume manual assembly environments (kitting, bundling, packaging)
- Comfortable operating without an established playbook - this site is building its own WMS, so you'll be defining process alongside the system rather than working within a mature, pre-built one
- Highly analytical with the ability to translate raw data into actionable strategies
- Strong root cause analysis skills - including the ability to determine whether a recurring inventory variance is a data integrity problem, a physical process problem, or both, before proposing a fix - and a track record of resolving bottlenecks through structural and layout improvements
- Experience diagnosing and reducing shrinkage (theft, damage, mis-pick, receiving error) with a named control that measurably moved the rate, not just tighter oversight
- Comfortable owning KPIs end to end: can define the metric, state the baseline, and name the single change that moved it - quantified claims without a baseline don't count
- Comfortable on the warehouse floor. This is not a desk-only role
