Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wesco is a business-to-business distribution, logistics services, and supply chain solutions company. The Director of Industrial Engineering leads the design and optimization of distribution facilities, labor standards, workflows, and process solutions to improve capacity, throughput, space utilization, and labor efficiency. The role also manages engineering personnel and partners with cross-functional teams on operational and facility optimization initiatives.
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
Skills
- Bachelors Degree – Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field required
- 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
- Ability to travel 25% - 50%
- Employee required to sit and drive a vehicle to perform their job
- Masters Degree – MBA preferred
- Lean Six/Sigma continuous improvement methods preferred
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- For eligible positions, participation in a bonus or sales incentive plan, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan documents
- For certain sales roles, a commission structure that provides additional compensation based on sales results, as defined by the applicable commission plan
- For eligible employees, paid time off
- For eligible employees, medical coverage
- For eligible employees, dental coverage
- For eligible employees, vision coverage
- For eligible employees, retirement savings plans
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