Lead Continuous Improvement Engineer

Logistics at full potential. 

At GXO, we’re constantly looking for talented individuals at all levels who can deliver the caliber of service our company requires. You know that a positive work environment creates happy employees, which boosts productivity and dedication. On our team, you’ll have the support to excel at work and the resources to build a career you can be proud of.

As the Lead Continuous Improvement Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the identification and evaluation of continuous improvement projects and initiatives.  Activities will include shop floor observations / gemba walks, and working with site operators. Familiarity with lean tools and techniques is essential to the delivery of your work.  You will use, modify, and create current and future state process flow diagrams, facility layouts / block diagrams, material flows, and throughput / productivity / capacity / utilization analyses.  Familiarity with material handling equipment and automation solutions, storage media designs, and virtual processes such as waving, profiling, slotting, pick path optimization will be useful in your role. A bias for action is critical in this role.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Partner directly with site and division operations leadership to identify, prioritize, and execute continuous improvement work focused on productivity, throughput, and cost improvement
• Conduct onsite operational assessments to identify inefficiencies in areas such as layout, flow, labor utilization, equipment usage, and virtual processes. Develop clear, actionable improvement plans
• Use data, observation, and root cause analysis to diagnose performance gaps and implement corrective actions
• Facilitate joint planning sessions with clients and operations teams to align on performance gaps, improvement roadmaps, and evolving business needs
• Design facility layout, storage media, and material flow configurations and solutions
• Prepare engineering calculations and documents that define both the initial solution and additional future optimization opportunities
• Collaborate with Data Analytics team
• Translate data insights into practical, site-level actions
• Evaluate and compare manual and automated solutions
• Collaborate with solutions engineering for new business on sustaining accounts
• Support business development by contributing to RFP responses on sustaining accounts, including identifying productivity improvement opportunities and long-term value creation for clients
• Support WMS and system configuration to ensure solutions are flexible and can adapt to ongoing process changes and improvement initiatives
• Provide implementation support focused on stabilization, performance tuning, and identifying additional improvement opportunities across the operation
• Act as a hands-on change agent in the field, helping translate engineering solutions into executable processes with frontline teams
• Mentor and develop junior engineers, reinforcing a mindset of ownership, field engagement, and continuous improvement

What you need to succeed at GXO:

At a minimum, you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent related work or military experience
• 4 years of engineering experience in supply chain management, logistics, warehousing or a related field
• Experience with Microsoft Office

It’d be great if you also have:

• 8-10 years of experience as an Industrial Engineer
• Extensive AutoCAD experience

• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Time study measurement, such as MOST, a plus
• Third-Party Logistics (3PL) experience warehousing, distribution center or fulfillment experience
• Analytical
• Project and resource management experience

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer including Disabled/Veterans.

GXO adheres to CDC, OSHA and state and local requirements regarding COVID safety. All employees and visitors are expected to comply with GXO policies which are in place to safeguard our employees and customers.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

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