Warehouse Design Engineer
Company: Performix
Role summary
Warehouse Design Engineer is a contract role at Performix in Fairfield, Ohio, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-09-02. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Warehouse Design Engineer
- Company
- Performix
- Location
- Fairfield, Ohio, United States
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Employment type
- contract
- Category
- Logistics & Warehousing
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-09-02
Here's an exciting contract opportunity to design and optimize warehouse layouts and processes. You'll get to apply your engineering skills to create efficient, functional spaces, with the flexibility of a contract role and the chance to work on impactful projects.
Job description
Description:
· This
is a senior engineer role to design a new warehouse setup and architect
workflow.
· The
engineer will design and plan the inner layout of a very large facility.
· Several
other lines are coming in to combine and reshape the warehouse.
What
will you do?
· Responsible
for designing and planning the inner layout of the warehouse transformation.
· Coordinate
setup and optimization of new warehouse design.
· Ensuring
optimized functioning of the warehouse and achieving maximum efficiency &
space utilization.
· Develops
warehouse design by planning layout, product flow, and product handling
systems.
· Adopts
lean concepts to streamline processes to achieve process flow efficiency.
· Organize
and manage (or control) warehousing operations, including reception, storage,
order preparation and shipments according to SPS principle.
· Measures
and analyses warehousing performance (cost and service) and implement
corrective actions.
· Manages
projects to design and optimize warehousing processes.
· Setup
new product lines that will include 1000 new products and over 5000-part
numbers.
· This
position needs to start quickly due to timelines, and this person will be part
of a three-to-four-person team designing the layout of the warehouse and
efficient placement of lines and parts.
· Ergonomics
and efficiency will be considered.
Education:
· Bachelor’s
Degree required.
· Experience
in warehouse design/optimization at a senior level.
· Able
to set up warehouse product lines as the final decision maker.
· Proven
Past Experience in large settings.
· Proficient
in computer aided design and drafting software.
· Proficient
SAP S4 Hana as this is the system of use.
· Knowledge
of Database systems (SQL, Tableau etc.) a plus.
· Preferred
knowledge in PIT and Warehouse equipment
· Candidates
should have specifics of engineering and technical items they engaged in the
past.
· They
should have specifics if they are a engineer and not a maintenance or
operations/people manager which is not the role.
· Slotting,
simulation tools like Flex or AutoCAD, and WMS type specifics.