Industrial Engineer II

Barnes & Noble, Inc.; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discount

EAP

Sick Pay

Paid Time Off including paid Maternity

Parental Leave

Company Holidays

401(k) with Company Match

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Transit

Job summary

Barnes & Noble, Inc. is seeking an Industrial Engineer to analyze Reno, NV warehouse operations and drive performance improvements.

This on-site role reports to the Director of Industrial Engineering and Analytics, focusing on ROI-driven projects that optimize storage, throughput, and labor management. Responsibilities include documenting processes, creating case studies, and leading initiatives with stakeholders across the distribution network.

Qualifications

• BS degree in IE, Supply chain, or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years’ experience in Distribution Centers.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain processes (inventory planning, warehouse, order, and labor management).
• Experience in Slotting and deploying Labor management.
• Experience working with large data sets and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand warehouse operations, identify delays and opportunities to increase productivity.
• Set up DC metrics (inventory movement, capacity, inbound/outbound activity, service levels).
• Support growth of the distribution network and design of new DCs.
• Document SOPs, process flows, and work instructions.
• Lead ROI evaluations and project timelines for warehouse improvements.

Skills

Supply chain understanding

Data analysis

Microsoft Excel

SQL basics

Project management

Education

BS degree IE, Supply chain, or equivalent

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Access

SQL

Job description

Job Summary

Barnes & Noble is the world’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media, and educational products. We operate over 600 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states and one of the web’s premier e-commerce sites, bn.com. Our Nook Digital business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and eReaders and an expansive collection of digital reading content through the NOOK® store.

Location

NV-Reno

Classification

Full-Time

This role will be a key Barnes & Noble Engineering team member. This position reports to the Director of Industrial Engineering and Analytics. Evaluate and analyze warehouse operations through detailed data analysis to drive warehouse performance excellence: identify issues and opportunities for improvement, document process changes, and gather data. Present warehouse improvement projects, create case studies, evaluate ROI, develop business requirements, and assist through design, acceptance, and deployment. An employee in this position can expect an annual salary between $95,000 - $110,000k depending on experience, seniority, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. This role is on-site in our Reno, NV Distribution Center.

Essential Functions

• Understand warehouse operations, be able to identify delays and opportunities of improvement to be able to increase warehouse productivity: observe warehouse employees, break down process, identify bottle necks, identify problems related to systems, procedures, or pace issues.
• In charge of setting up logistics and distribution center’s metrics. Including but not limited to inventory’s rate of movement, warehouse capacity, inbound/ outbound activity, service level, reliability of transport and delivery, and other data related to product supply chain management, sourcing, and distribution.
• Support the growth and development of the Distribution network, including facility design, maximization of space utilization and start-up of new DCs.
• Document and maintain Standard Operation Procedures, Process flow diagrams and Work instructions.
• Understand order cadence and waving strategies leading to increase of warehouse productivity.
• Collaborate with work standardization, perform time studies.
• In charge of Labor management administration: employee productivity tracking, labor models and forecasting.
• Able to run Inventory analysis: ABC modeling for over 300K SKUs.
• Collaborate with Slotting initiatives: able to recommend logic, validate simulations, approve slotting moves for production and track efficiency of inventory moves completed.
• Project management: able to present new initiatives for projects of warehouse improvement: build case studies, obtain buy in from stakeholders, evaluate ROI, create timelines, track project milestones, etc.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

• BS degree IE, Supply chain, or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years’ experience working in Distribution Centers.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain processes (e.g., inventory planning, warehouse, order, and labor management)
• Experience in Slotting.
• Experience deploying Labor management.
• Experience working with large sets of data.
• Project management skills: maintain issues log, create process flows, establish critical path, and maintain documents.
• Works well under deadlines, self-starter, innovative, team-oriented, customer-focused, etc.
• Advanced in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Experience in Microsoft Access preferred Excel and Access & working knowledge of SQL.
• AutoCAD
• Excellent communication/interpersonal skills. Able to communicate with employees in different levels of the organization (Office and Warehouse employees)
• Able to think outside the box, troubleshooting skills.
• Flexible regarding work schedule when needed.

Benefits

• Benefits for those who are scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week include Employee Discount, EAP and Sick Pay.
• For those scheduled to work between 20 and 29.99 benefits include Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay and Paid Time Off including paid Maternity and Parental Leave, Company Paid Holidays, Transit and 401(k) with Company Match.
• For those scheduled to work 30 hours or more benefits include Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay and Paid Time Off including paid Maternity and Parental Leave, Company Paid Holidays, 401(k) with Company Match, Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision), Healthcare and Dependent Care Spending Accounts, Healthcare Spending Account, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Transit, and Tuition Reimbursement.
• All benefits provided are in accordance with the terms of the current plan and may be subject to future change.
• Benefit may vary depending on location/state regulations.
• More information can be received by the recruiter or Human Resources.

What You Do

We’re proud to be an industry leader, consistently recognized for excellence in quality and customer service in our stores and online at bn.com.

Knowledge & Experience

This role is on-site in our Reno, NV Distribution Center.