Industrial Engineer

🚀 Optimize How We Build, Pack, and Ship at Scale

📍 Role: Industrial Engineer
📍 Company: Coastal Trading Ventures (CTV)
📍 Location: Fort Worth, TX (Warehouse, Onsite)

You might currently be a Senior Process Engineer, Process Engineer (Supply Chain), Continuous Improvement Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Lean/Six Sigma Engineer, or Program Manager (Industrial Engineering). If you've built labor standards from scratch, run time-and-motion studies on a live warehouse floor, and turned line-balancing or slotting redesigns into measurable cost-per-unit savings, you'll recognize this role.

Coastal Trading Ventures (CTV) is a high-growth eCommerce fulfillment operation powered by smart systems and a team that takes operational excellence seriously. We're investing in the infrastructure, technology, and people that will define how we scale and this role is an important part of that work.

This is a greenfield seat. We're building our own WMS in-house, and you'd be the first industrial engineer on the ground shaping it, not adapting your process to someone else's off-the-shelf software, but defining how physical labor flow and system logic fit together from scratch across an 8,000+ SKU environment.

We're not just moving products, we're building the infrastructure behind one of the fastest-growing Amazon operations in the country. We're looking for an Industrial Engineer to own the efficiency of our warehouse operations: eliminating waste, setting labor standards, and redesigning workflows across an 8,000+ SKU fulfillment environment.

If you want to see your work translate directly into P&L impact - fewer wasted steps, lower cost-per-unit, faster throughput, we'd love to meet you.

🎯 What You'll Be Doing

• Serve as the first industrial engineer on the ground for our in-house WMS build, shaping system logic around real physical workflows rather than retrofitting process to an existing platform
• Identify and eliminate non-value-added activities across all warehouse zones
• Conduct floor-level time-and-motion studies to establish baseline labor standards and standardized work procedures
• Analyze high-volume kitting and assembly workflows to break through labor bottlenecks in manual packaging (shrink-wrapping, boxing, bundling)
• Optimize line-balancing, ergonomics, and component presentation to minimize operator reach, wait, and walk time across 8,000+ SKUs
• Redesign pack stations, slotting logic, and pick paths to reduce travel time and eliminate unnecessary forklift and pedestrian movement
• Map physical labor flow against our in-development WMS to identify gaps where software limitations force manual workarounds, and feed those findings directly into the build
• Build poka-yoke (error-proofing) guardrails to ensure inventory flows without manual intervention or rework
• Partner with Operations leadership to measure and report cost-savings metrics, translating physical efficiency gains into lower operational labor cost-per-unit
• Own the KPIs that measure warehouse efficiency and inventory health — labor cost-per-unit, shrink rate, pick accuracy — distinguishing when a metric plateau signals a data problem versus a process problem before proposing a fix

✅ What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or related engineering discipline
• Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt minimum; Black Belt or Master Black Belt preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in process optimization and continuous improvement
• Proven hands-on experience in e-commerce fulfillment, 3PL, or high-volume manual assembly environments (kitting, bundling, packaging)
• Comfortable operating without an established playbook - this site is building its own WMS, so you'll be defining process alongside the system rather than working within a mature, pre-built one
• Highly analytical with the ability to translate raw data into actionable strategies
• Strong root cause analysis skills — including the ability to determine whether a recurring inventory variance is a data integrity problem, a physical process problem, or both, before proposing a fix — and a track record of resolving bottlenecks through structural and layout improvements
• Experience diagnosing and reducing shrinkage (theft, damage, mis-pick, receiving error) with a named control that measurably moved the rate, not just tighter oversight
• Comfortable owning KPIs end to end: can define the metric, state the baseline, and name the single change that moved it — quantified claims without a baseline don't count
• Comfortable on the warehouse floor. This is not a desk-only role

📈 Growth & Career Opportunities at Luminize/Coastal Trading Ventures

At Luminize, growth isn't just something we drive for our clients - it's our mindset and a big priority for our people.

We offer clear career paths and leveling guidelines so you always know where you stand, what's next, and what skills and experience you need to get there. From day one, you'll have visibility into advancement opportunities and what it takes to grow into leadership, specialization, or cross-functional roles.

We're proud of our strong track record of promoting from within. Many of our team leads and managers started in individual contributor roles and grew by consistently showing initiative, curiosity, and impact.

About Luminize / Coastal Trading Ventures
Luminize and Coastal Trading Ventures (CTV) operate as two halves of the same business. Luminize is the front-end Amazon growth partner, headquartered in San Diego, CA, driving strategy, advertising, and brand management. Coastal Trading Ventures is the back-end physical engine, based in Fort Worth, TX, running the warehousing, receiving, inventory management, product prep, and fulfillment that bring every Luminize-managed brand to the customer. The two share leadership, systems, and people. A role posted under either name is part of one connected operation.

If you're ready to work with great people, do work that matters, and keep growing, we'd love to meet you!

👉 Apply now and let's grow together!

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