The posting
About the Job
Korpack is a food-grade, SQF-certified contract packaging company that has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing companies three times in the last six years — and we're not slowing down. We're in the middle of adding roughly 150,000 square feet of operating space, which means we don't just have inefficiencies to fix. We have an entire footprint to design right the first time.
That's where you come in. We're looking 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 it should run.
The Journey
You'll report to our Director of Manufacturing Operations and become the engineering brain behind how product, people, and materials move through our buildings. You'll also partner with our Distribution & Supply Chain team on projects where material flow and warehouse design cross paths — because at Korpack, the walls between departments are lower than the racking.
Early on, you'll get your hands dirty: time studies, line balancing, changeover analysis, material move mapping. From there, you'll take on the projects that move the needle — automation opportunities, throughput improvements, and layout design for our expansion. You'll turn 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 with automation projects — scoping, justifying, implementing, and validating results
- Track record of improving throughput in a real production environment (line balancing, changeover reduction, bottleneck analysis)
- Experience analyzing and redesigning material flow and material handling — layouts, move frequency, touch reduction
- Strong data skills: you can build the analysis yourself (Excel required; 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'll be straight with you: this is not a role where you'll optimize a mature, stable operation from a desk. We're growing fast, our product mix changes constantly, and some of the systems and standards you'll need don't exist yet — you'll be 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, this isn't your seat. If a blank canvas and a fast pace sound like fun, keep reading.
The Reward
You'll join 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 that don't exist today. Your projects won't disappear into a committee; they'll be visible to leadership, measured in real dollars, and celebrated when they win. And you'll get something most industrial engineers wait a career for: 150,000 square feet of new space to help design from scratch.
How We DISRUPT
Korpack isn't here to just make a boom in the packaging industry — we're here to DISRUPT it from every angle:
- Determined — The right solution doesn't come easy, but we're determined to 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.
- Understanding — Listen. Understand. Anticipate. Respond.
- Proactive — Don't wait for something to happen, MAKE it happen. 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.
If you're a 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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