Industrial Engineer, Logistics & Material Flow

Castelion Corporation•Torrance, CA

About The Position

Castelion is seeking an Industrial Engineer to design and scale logistics systems supporting manufacturing operations. The role owns the systems-level view of warehouse layouts, material flow, internal routing, packaging, transportation, and multisite logistics. It connects industrial engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and program execution by translating production requirements, inventory data, facility constraints, and transportation needs into practical systems that deliver materials to the right place, at the right time, and in the right condition. The engineer will help build infrastructure for scaling from prototype and low-rate production to high-rate manufacturing across multiple facilities, suppliers, test sites, and external partners. The role includes designing logistics processes and facilities, modeling capacity and costs, establishing packaging and operating standards, improving logistics systems and metrics, managing risk, and coordinating with internal teams and external partners. Travel between company facilities, suppliers, logistics partners, and test sites may be required. The position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information. If designated, employment may depend on obtaining and maintaining the required government security clearance or authorization and satisfying applicable citizenship or other eligibility requirements. Access to export-controlled information is required, so employment is contingent on the candidate being able to access applicable information without additional export licensing. Castelion states that it is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.
At least 3 years of experience in industrial engineering, warehouse engineering, logistics engineering, manufacturing, distribution, or a related operating environment.
Experience designing or improving warehouse layouts, material-flow systems, transportation processes, or inventory operations.
Experience analyzing operational data and developing capacity, labor, space, routing, or cost models.
Ability to create process maps, layouts, standard work, and operational documentation.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment and manage multiple priorities.
Ability to work hands-on in warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics environments.
Ability to access applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required.
If government security-clearance or other authorization requirements apply to the designated role, ability to obtain and maintain them and satisfy applicable citizenship or other eligibility requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting hardware development, aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics, or other complex manufacturing environments.
Experience transitioning operations from prototype or low-rate production to high-rate production.
Experience designing multisite logistics networks, interfacility transportation plans, or regional distribution models.
Experience with warehouse slotting, pick-path optimization, kitting, supermarkets, kanban, milk runs, or point-of-use delivery.
Experience with packaging engineering, returnable containers, dunnage, crating, shock and vibration protection, ESD controls, or sensitive-hardware handling.
Familiarity with transportation planning, carrier management, freight classification, shipment consolidation, routing guides, and delivery-service metrics.
Experience with warehouse management systems, ERP systems, barcode/RFID technologies, or inventory-control systems.
Experience with CAD, Visio, AutoCAD, SketchUp, or similar tools for developing warehouse and facility layouts.
Comfort building dashboards or lightweight data pipelines using Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools.
Experience with discrete-event simulation, facility modeling, network optimization, or logistics modeling tools.
Background in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5S, Theory of Constraints, or other continuous-improvement methodologies.
Experience developing labor standards, conducting time studies, and performing ergonomic or travel-distance analyses.
Familiarity with APQP, Control Plans, PFMEA, process risk assessments, and managing significant or critical characteristics.
Experience with hazardous-material transportation, DOT requirements, export-controlled hardware, or secure logistics.
Familiarity with Atlassian tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
Forklift, powered industrial truck, or other material-handling-equipment experience.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across technical and operational teams.

Responsibilities

Design and optimize warehouse, stockroom, staging, kitting, shipping, receiving, and material-handling layouts to improve space utilization, safety, inventory accuracy, and throughput.
Develop and maintain end-to-end material-flow maps for suppliers, receiving, inspection, storage, point-of-use delivery, production, finished goods, shipping, and external sites.
Define internal routing strategies, milk runs, tugger routes, delivery frequencies, supermarket locations, point-of-use replenishment, and material-presentation standards.
Analyze demand, production schedules, inventory levels, shipment history, and facility constraints to model warehouse and logistics capacity.
Develop multisite transportation plans for materials, tooling, production hardware, equipment, and finished goods moving among facilities, suppliers, test sites, and customers.
Build transportation models evaluating route frequency, shipment consolidation, vehicle and trailer needs, carrier performance, lead times, cost, and service-level risk.
Develop packaging, labeling, containerization, and material-protection requirements for components, hardware, tooling, hazardous materials, and mission-critical equipment.
Partner with quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering teams to establish packaging standards that protect hardware from damage, contamination, corrosion, electrostatic discharge, and environmental exposure.
Define reusable container strategies, dunnage, racks, pallets, carts, returnable packaging, and other material-handling equipment.
Conduct time studies, travel-path analyses, warehouse slotting studies, labor standards, and process observations to identify bottlenecks and eliminate non-value-added work.
Create and maintain process flow diagrams, spaghetti diagrams, value-stream maps, warehouse layouts, routing guides, and standard work.
Establish inventory-storage policies, location strategies, FIFO/FEFO requirements, quarantine areas, secure storage, hazardous-material segregation, and controlled-access zones.
Develop operating standards for receiving, put-away, picking, kitting, staging, loading, shipping, returns, and intersite transfers.
Build and maintain logistics performance metrics, including inventory accuracy, dock-to-stock time, pick accuracy, order cycle time, space utilization, transportation cost, on-time delivery, damage rates, and material availability.
Use data to lead root-cause investigations into shortages, late deliveries, excess handling, damaged hardware, routing inefficiencies, and warehouse capacity constraints.
Support warehouse management system, ERP, barcode, RFID, and material-tracking process improvements.
Partner with software, operations, and supply chain teams to define system requirements, master data, transactions, location structures, and reporting needs.
Support facility planning, equipment selection, automation assessments, and capital-investment decisions with data-driven capacity and cost models.
Lead capacity studies and risk assessments for new facilities, warehouse expansions, production ramps, and multisite operating models.
Establish contingency plans for transportation disruptions, supplier delays, facility outages, vehicle constraints, and other logistics risks.
Develop and maintain standard work, operating procedures, routing guides, packaging instructions, and training materials.
Coordinate with suppliers, carriers, brokers, and external logistics partners to improve service, cost, reliability, and compliance.
Work cross-functionally with manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, quality, finance, facilities, security, and program management to align logistics plans with production schedules, cost targets, and delivery objectives.
Travel between company facilities, suppliers, logistics partners, and test sites as required to implement and improve logistics systems.