Senior Process Engineer - Enterprise Improvement

Interstates; Sioux Center (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Interstates seeks a Senior Process Engineer to lead enterprise process improvements across our nationwide operations. You will partner with leaders to map current processes, identify bottlenecks, and design future‑state workflows that boost quality, efficiency, and scalability.

You’ll drive data‑driven decisions, develop governance, and mentor teams in lean methods while coordinating ongoing initiatives with IT and business stakeholders. This role is based in IA/SD/NE offices and requires travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, business, operations, organizational development, supply chain, or related field.
• Typically seven or more years of experience in process engineering, operational excellence, business process management, continuous improvement, organizational transformation, or project management.
• Experience leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives across departments, business units, or locations.
• Experience developing enterprise processes, operating standards, governance models, and performance measurement approaches.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into practical processes, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience facilitating executive and cross‑functional discussions and influencing without direct authority.
• Experience leading organizational change, stakeholder adoption, and process implementation.
• Experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to process improvement professionals.
• Strong analytical thinking, root‑cause analysis, problem‑solving, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate insights clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Proficiency with process mapping, process architecture, data analysis, project management, and presentation tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an enterprise process improvement framework aligned with Interstates’ strategic objectives.
• Identify opportunities to improve cross‑functional processes, reduce waste, eliminate duplication, and strengthen handoffs.
• Partner with leaders and process owners to understand business needs, customer expectations, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Map current‑state processes and analyze bottlenecks, variation, rework, delays, failure points, and control gaps.
• Use data, root‑cause analysis, Lean principles, and structured problem‑solving to identify improvement opportunities.
• Build business cases, recommendations, and prioritized improvement portfolios for leadership decision‑making.
• Design future‑state processes that improve efficiency, quality, consistency, scalability, and stakeholder experience.
• Develop standard work, role definitions, decision frameworks, process controls, and practical documentation.
• Establish meaningful performance measures, targets, ownership, reporting expectations, and review routines.
• Partner with IT and digital teams to evaluate automation, workflow, dashboards, alerts, and other technology‑enabled solutions.
• Facilitate workshops, process‑mapping sessions, pilots, and design discussions with the people who perform and support the work.
• Lead complex, cross‑functional improvement initiatives from charter through implementation and transition to process ownership.
• Coordinate plans, milestones, resources, communications, risks, dependencies, and adoption strategies across teams and locations.
• Apply change management practices to support alignment, training, adoption, and sustained behavior change.
• Establish governance and sustainment practices that help improvements deliver lasting results.
• Coach process owners, project teams, and other improvement professionals in continuous improvement methods.
• Communicate results, lessons learned, and scalable solutions to leaders and stakeholders across Interstates.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

Process mapping

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, business, operations, organizational development, supply chain, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Visio

Job description

Interstates seeks a Senior Process Engineer to lead enterprise process improvements across our nationwide operations. You will partner with leaders to map current processes, identify bottlenecks, and design future‑state workflows that boost quality, efficiency, and scalability.

You’ll drive data‑driven decisions, develop governance, and mentor teams in lean methods while coordinating ongoing initiatives with IT and business stakeholders. This role is based in IA/SD/NE offices and requires travel.