Industrial Engineer

Korpack is a food-grade (SQF) co-packer for leading consumer brands, providing contract packaging, packaging materials and automation in the western Chicago suburbs. We're doubling into 350,000 sq ft across two facilities, Bloomingdale and St. Charles, and investing in the people and systems to run them. Two things define how we work. Efficiency: lines that run to standard, every shift. Accuracy: work orders, inventory and shipments that are right the first time in our ERP (Acumatica).

Our customers see their product move work-order by work-order, and we've promised them no delay. If you want a place where your work shows up in the numbers, keep reading.

Korpackis 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— andwe'renot slowing down. We'rein the middle of adding roughly
150,000square feetof operating space, which means wedon'tjust have inefficiencies to fix. We have an entire footprint to design right the first time.

That'swhere you come in.

We'relooking 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 itshouldrun.

You'llreport to our Director of Manufacturing Operations and become the engineering brain behind how product, people, and materials move through our buildings.

You'llalso 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'llget your hands dirty: time studies, line balancing, changeover analysis, material move mapping. From there,you'lltake on the projects that move the needle — automation opportunities, throughput improvements, and layout design for our expansion.

You'llturn tribal knowledge into documented standards inside our ERP, so what we learn scales with us instead of walking out the door at 3:30.

• 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

• 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, andvalidatingresults
• Track recordofimproving 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

We'llbe straight with you: this is not a role whereyou'lloptimizea mature, stable operation from a desk.

We'regrowing fast, our product mix changes constantly, and some of the systems and standards you'llneeddon'texist yet —you'llbe building them.

You'll juggle multiple projects across two facilities, and priorities will shift as our…