Industrial Engineer

Scalis LLC; Missouri; On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k)

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Korpack is expanding and seeking an Industrial Engineer to redesign material flow, balance lines, and map waste to efficient layouts across two facilities in the Chicago suburbs area. You will lead automation opportunities, justify improvements, and implement changes that pay back in real dollars.

You’ll document standards inside the ERP, partner with Distribution & Supply Chain, and tackle hands-on time studies, line balancing, and changeover analysis to help scale the operation as it grows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands-on experience in engineering for manufacturing.
• Experience with automation projects: scoping, justification, implementation, validation.
• Track record of throughput improvements in real production environments.
• Experience redesigning material flow and layouts, move frequency, touch reduction.
• Strong data skills: build analyses in Excel; Power BI and ERP data a plus.
• Manufacturing or packaging environment experience; food/CPG/contract packaging a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead material flow and warehouse design projects across two facilities.
• Develop and implement line balancing, changeover reductions, and layout standards.
• Turn tribal knowledge into documented standards inside the ERP for scalable learning.
• Collaborate with Distribution & Supply Chain on projects crossing paths with material flow.

Skills

Automation projects

Throughput improvement

Material flow analysis

Data analysis

Excel

Power BI

ERP data experience

Line balancing

Changeover reduction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field

Tools

Acumatica ERP

Job description

Korpack is a food-grade (SQF) co-packer for leading consumer brands, providing contract packaging, packaging materials and automation in the western Chicago suburbs. We're doubling into 350,000 sq ft across two facilities, Bloomingdale and St. Charles, and investing in the people and systems to run them. Two things define how we work. Efficiency: lines that run to standard, every shift. Accuracy: work orders, inventory and shipments that are right the first time in our ERP (Acumatica). Our customers see their product move work-order by work-order, and we've promised them no delay. If you want a place where your work shows up in the numbers, keep reading.

About the job

Korpackis a food-grade, SQF-certified contract packaging company that has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing companiesthree times in the last six years— andwe'renot slowing down. We'rein the middle of addingroughly150,000square feetof operating space, which means wedon'tjust have inefficiencies to fix. We have an entire footprint to design right the first time.

That'swhere you come in.We'relooking for an Industrial Engineer who physically cannot walk past waste without wanting to kill it. Someone who sees a forklift making the same trip four times and starts sketching a better layout in their head. Someone who looks at a production line and sees not what it runs today, but what itshouldrun.

The Journey

You'llreport to our Director of Manufacturing Operations and become the engineering brain behind how product, people, and materials move through our buildings.You'llalso partner with our Distribution & Supply Chain team on projects where material flow and warehouse design cross paths — because atKorpack, the walls between departments are lower than the racking.

Early on,you'llget your hands dirty: time studies, line balancing, changeover analysis, material move mapping. From there,you'lltake on the projects that move the needle — automation opportunities, throughput improvements, and layout design for our expansion.You'llturn tribal knowledge into documented standards inside our ERP, so what we learn scales with us instead of walking out the door at 3:30.

What Success Looks Like

• Throughput rates climb, and you can prove it with data — not anecdotes
• Material touches per order go down; every move a forklift makes has a reason
• Automation projects go from idea → justification → installed → paying for themselves
• Overhead cost per unit trends the right direction, quarter after quarter
• Our expansion footprint is designed for flow from day one, not retrofitted later
• Standards, layouts, and labor models live in systems, not in someone's head

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field — or equivalent hands-on experience that proves you can do the work
• Demonstrated experience withautomation projects— scoping, justifying, implementing, andvalidatingresults
• Track recordofimproving throughputin a real production environment (line balancing, changeover reduction, bottleneck analysis)
• Experience analyzing and redesigningmaterial flow and material handling— layouts, move frequency, touch reduction
• Strong data skills: you can build the analysis yourself (Excelrequired; Power BI and ERP data experience a big plus)
• Manufacturing or packaging environment experience required; food, CPG, or contract packaging experience is a strong plus

The Challenges

We'llbe straight with you: this is not a role whereyou'lloptimizea mature, stable operation from a desk.We'regrowing fast, our product mix changes constantly, and some of the systems and standardsyou'llneeddon'texist yet —you'llbe building them.You'll juggle multiple projects across two facilities, and priorities will shift as our customers' needs shift.If you need everything defined before you can move, thisisn'tyour seat. If a blank canvas andafat pacesound like fun, keep reading.

The Reward

You'lljoin a company that has earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 three times in six years — and growth like that creates opportunity. We promote from within, we build seats around people who prove they can own them, and the org chart a year from now will have boxes on it thatdon'texist today. Your projectswon'tdisappear into a committee;they'llbe visible to leadership, measured in real dollars, and celebrated when they win. Andyou'llget something most industrial engineerswaita career for:150,000 square feetof new space to help design from scratch.

How We DISRUPT

• Determined— The right solutiondoesn'tcome easy, butwe'redeterminedto find it and implement it.
• Innovative— The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
• Responsive— Speed, agility, and accuracy in addressing our internal and external customers is in our DNA.
• Proactive— Don't wait for something to happen, MAKE ithappen. You are what you do, not what you say you will do.
• Teamwork— Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
• Smile— Smiles are contagious... be a carrier.

Ifyou'rea builder who wants your fingerprints on how a fast-growing company runs — not just a maintainer of someone else's system — we want to meet you.

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Speed. Technology. Trust.

• Health Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays

Our Commitment to You

At Korpack, customer delight is not just a goal; it’s our way of doing business. We are committed to delivering quality services consistently, on time, and maintaining enduring relationships. Our endeavor is to continually enhance our performance and adhere to the highest statutory and regulatory standards.