Director - Industrial Engineering

Wesco • Cranbury Township, NJ

24d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Director - Industrial Engineering, you will be responsible for providing the engineering rigor that underpins operational efficiency, labor productivity, and end to product flow. You will be responsible for owning the design and optimization of facility layouts, labor standards, and process design.

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• Lean Six/Sigma continuous improvement methods preferred
• Ability to travel 25% - 50%

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree – MBA preferred
• Lean Six/Sigma continuous improvement methods preferred

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.
• Create scalable segment-oriented facility designs for new builds, retrofits, and expansions
• 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.
• Supervises, coaches, recruits, and mentors direct and indirect reports.

Benefits

• For eligible positions, compensation may include participation in a bonus or sales incentive plan, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan documents.
• For certain sales roles, Wesco also offers a commission structure that provides additional compensation based on sales results, as defined by the applicable commission plan.
• In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans.
• Additional details about benefits are available here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees