Senior Manager, IO Industrial Engineering - Lakeland

Shape the future of operational excellence  the Senior Manager of Industrial Engineering for Industrial Operations, you’ll lead the industrial engineering managers and teams whose work influences some of Publix’s most significant investments: our workforce, facilities, and equipment. Your leadership will help drive process improvement and operational excellence across Distribution, Manufacturing, Transportation, Central Pharmacy, and other supported areas of the business. Shape the Strategy.

In this highly influential role, you’ll partner with operational leaders, directors, and vice presidents to establish priorities, align resources, develop leadership capability, and ensure consistent execution of industrial engineering strategies that support Publix’s business priorities. You’ll provide enterprise-level direction that helps leaders make informed decisions around associate performance, staffing and scheduling, labor productivity, operational capacity, and investments in facilities and equipment.

What Impact Will You Make? This is an opportunity to lead beyond a single operation. Your team’s work will help shape how Publix optimizes resources, improves processes, drives efficiencies and cost savings, and builds the operational capabilities needed to support our long‑term growth and performance. If you’re a strategic leader who enjoys developing high‑performing teams, influencing senior leaders, and turning complex operational challenges into measurable business improvements, we invite you to bring your expertise to Publix.

Industrial Operations Systems

Engineering, Management

• Identify and prioritize high‑impact IE (Industrial Engineering) work, including strategic process improvements, operations optimization, and special projects of significant business value, risk, or confidentiality
• Provide oversight, guidance, and/or direct leadership on the most complex and high‑impact industrial engineering work
• Guide Publix leaders in making strategic, long‑term decisions regarding operations, resources, investments, and organizational priorities in alignment with Publix business strategies
• Direct the development, maintenance, configuration and validation of engineered labor and production standards that support scheduling, pay, performance evaluation, product costing, and production planning
• Build and sustain a high‑performing IE team by mentoring and developing managers and engineers, strengthening leadership capability, collaboration, and innovation
• Foster an achievement‑focused culture that drives engagement, organizational effectiveness, and the attraction and retention of top talent
• Ensure high‑quality, high‑value IE analyses and recommendations that strengthen business decisions and confidence in IE decision support

• Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering OR a closely related analytical discipline OR equivalent experience
• Six years of industrial engineering experience in a large‑scale retail, distribution, manufacturing, or pharmacy environment, with responsibility for work such as:
• Developing and implementing engineered labor standards or comparable productivity measures,
• Driving process improvements,
• Designing facility layouts for operational efficiency, and
• Identifying innovative tools, equipment, or automated solutions with a proven ability to collaborate with suppliers to assess feasibility and support successful implementation
• Five years of experience applying engineering leadership skills and business acumen, including a strong understanding of core business principles and the ability to translate these into actionable plans
• Five years of experience building relationships, understanding stakeholder needs,…