Senior Consultant - Industrial Engineering

Senior Consultant

The Senior Consultant is a core member of the project team, providing day-to-day leadership on management consulting engagements for retail and supply chain clients, primarily onsite. This role owns workstreams end-to-end (plan ? analysis ? recommendation ? implementation plan), delivers high-quality client-ready outputs across workforce management, productivity improvement, engineered labor standards, and operational assessments, and manages client relationships and project execution. Senior Consultants independently lead workstreams, manage and coach junior team members, and partner with the Project Manager/Engagement Lead to ensure successful delivery. Travel is required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead projects or engagement workstreams end-to-end, owning workplans, milestones, deliverables, and execution (time & motion studies, work measurement, cost-benefit analysis, process re-engineering)
• Provide daily project leadership, including task planning, prioritization, progress tracking, and status reporting
• Lead onsite diagnostics and current-state assessments (interviews, process mapping, floor observations, time studies, and data validation)
• Serve as the primary client counterpart for assigned workstreams; manage stakeholder alignment across client and internal teams
• Design future-state processes, capabilities, and enabling technologies to improve operational performance
• Research and apply emerging methods and technologies to drive measurable efficiency gains
• Build and oversee core analyses and models (KPI baselines, volume-to-labor/capacity models, productivity sizing) to support quantified business cases
• Develop and deliver engineered labor standards, including documentation, governance, rollout, and sustainment support where applicable
• Translate analysis into actionable recommendations and implementation-ready roadmaps across people, process, and technology
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions; synthesize outputs into clear action plans and executive-ready presentations
• Support business development through proposals, presentations, and new client opportunities as needed
• Manage and develop junior team members through delegation, coaching, and quality assurance
• Identify risks, constraints, and dependencies; propose mitigation plans and escalate as needed
• Maintain strong productivity across onsite, remote, and independent work environments
• Travel extensively (typically 80100%) across the U.S., with occasional international travel

Working Conditions May include non-standard and physically demanding environments, such as:

• Evening, overnight, and weekend shifts
• Continuous walking and standing
• Client sites with varied and extreme temperatures

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to View email address on click.appcast.io.