Senior Process Engineer

Take Charge of Your Career at Interstates

At Interstates, we don’t just show up to work, we show up for each other. From our headquarters in Iowa to job sites across the country, we’re doing award-winning electrical, controls, automation, and OT work that powers industrial facilities for clients here in the U.S. and around the world. Whether you’re bending conduit, wiring panels, writing code, supporting projects, or helping things run behind the scenes, you’ll be part of a crew that works hard, shares laughs, and takes pride in doing quality work.

We believe in building strong teams, doing the right thing, and making a difference in the communities where we live. If you want to grow and do meaningful work, you’ll feel at home here.

Make Work Better—Across the Enterprise

Interstates is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to build and advance enterprise process improvement capabilities across the organization. In this role, you’ll work with executive leaders, operational teams, process owners, subject matter experts, and technology partners to improve how work gets done across functions and locations.

You’ll turn complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions that improve quality, efficiency, predictability, employee experience, and business performance. This is a highly collaborative role for a strategic thinker who can move comfortably between high‑level business priorities, detailed process analysis, and hands‑on implementation.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain an enterprise process improvement framework aligned with Interstates’ strategic objectives.
• Identify opportunities to improve cross-functional processes, reduce waste, eliminate duplication, and strengthen handoffs.
• Partner with leaders and process owners to understand business needs, customer expectations, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Map current-state processes and analyze bottlenecks, variation, rework, delays, failure points, and control gaps.
• Use data, root‑cause analysis, Lean principles, and structured problem‑solving to identify improvement opportunities.
• Build business cases, recommendations, and prioritized improvement portfolios for leadership decision‑making.
• Design future‑state processes that improve efficiency, quality, consistency, scalability, and stakeholder experience.
• Develop standard work, role definitions, decision frameworks, process controls, and practical documentation.
• Establish meaningful performance measures, targets, ownership, reporting expectations, and review routines.
• Partner with IT and digital teams to evaluate automation, workflow, dashboards, alerts, and other technology‑enabled solutions.
• Facilitate workshops, process‑mapping sessions, pilots, and design discussions with the people who perform and support the work.
• Lead complex, cross‑functional improvement initiatives from charter through implementation and transition to process ownership.
• Coordinate plans, milestones, resources, communications, risks, dependencies, and adoption strategies across teams and locations.
• Apply change management practices to support alignment, training, adoption, and sustained behavior change.
• Establish governance and sustainment practices that help improvements deliver lasting results.
• Coach process owners, project teams, and other improvement professionals in continuous improvement methods.
• Communicate results, lessons learned, and scalable solutions to leaders and stakeholders across Interstates.

Essential Skills & Experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, business, operations, organizational development, supply chain, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience: Typically, seven or more years of experience in process engineering,…