Design Engineer

Job Title: Design Engineer

Job Description

The Design Engineer leads the design, development, review, and release of new delivery stations and enhancements to existing station capacity. This role provides process and engineering expertise to create efficient, safe, and scalable building layouts and material flow solutions. The Design Engineer collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to implement standard designs, drive process improvements, and support expansion, retrofit, and continuous improvement initiatives across a fast-paced industrial and logistics environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the building design, development, review, and release for approval of new delivery stations and capacity improvements for existing stations.
• Develop and refine designs that optimize material flow, labor placement, conveyors, equipment, operations modules, packaging profiles, and physical building and site layout components.
• Provide process expertise on engineering design to ensure that layouts and systems support safe, efficient, and high-quality operations.
• Collaborate with Design Managers, CAD drafters, Real Estate Transaction teams, World Wide Engineering, Pre-Construction and its architects, material handling equipment suppliers, Launch and Start Up teams, Finance, Volume Planning, and Capacity Planning teams.
• Implement new design standards in partnership with World Wide Design, Safety, Process Engineering, Material Handling Equipment, and Launch teams.
• Drive new expansion, retrofit, and process improvement initiatives at the project level to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and capacity within delivery stations.
• Incorporate new template designs, process improvements, and safety processes into standard designs to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Facilitate cross-functional, project-specific design reviews to gather feedback, align stakeholders, and refine design solutions.
• Produce and review construction documents, design drawings, and drafting deliverables using CAD tools.
• Apply industrial engineering and building design principles to improve workflows, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance operational performance.
• Use general programming and database knowledge to support data-driven design decisions and process optimization, where applicable.
• Manage projects effectively by coordinating timelines, deliverables, and stakeholders, while working under pressure in a cross-functional organization.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with business partners and key stakeholders to ensure successful design implementation.
• Communicate clearly through high-quality written, verbal, and interpersonal interactions to support collaboration and decision-making.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or an equivalent industrial and operations background.
• Familiarity with Quickbase or similar tools for managing design-related data and workflows.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in process and building layout design and development, ideally in a fast-paced industrial, logistics, distribution, fulfillment, or production/manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency with standard design tools such as AutoCAD, including hands-on AUTOCAD experience for CAD design.
• Experience with Revit and architectural design tools for building and layout design.
• Industrial engineering or building design experience, with a focus on material flow and process optimization.
• Experience with process improvements or workflow improvements in an operational setting.
• Knowledge and proficiency in additional design tools such as MS Visio and Solidworks.
• General knowledge of programming languages, databases, and computer science concepts to support data-driven design work.
• Strong process engineering skills to design efficient, safe, and scalable operations.
• Excellent project management skills, including planning, coordination, and execution of design projects.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with business partners and key stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in a cross-functional organization.
• High level of written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in logistics, distribution, fulfillment, or production/manufacturing environments where building layout and process design are critical.
• background in industrial engineering combined with data science or programming experience, such as a mechanical engineer with programming or data science skills.
• Experience producing construction documents, design drawings, and drafting packages.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional design reviews and incorporate feedback into final designs.
• Comfort working with material handling equipment suppliers and understanding their requirements within building layouts.
• Interest in working on and designing grocery delivery stations and related facilities.

Work Environment

The Design Engineer works primarily in a professional office and project environment focused on designing grocery delivery stations. The role requires working onsite in Bellevue, WA three days per week, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. The position supports a fast-paced industrial and logistics setting, where designs must accommodate high-volume operations, material handling equipment, and evolving process standards. Daily work involves extensive use of design technologies and software tools such as AutoCAD, Revit, MS Visio, Solidworks, and potentially Quickbase and related systems. The environment emphasizes safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement, offering the opportunity to contribute to large-scale delivery station projects within a structured, project-driven setting.

This is a Contract position based out of Bellevue, WA.

The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $52.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a Contract position based out of Bellevue, WA.

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 25, 2026.

This is a hybrid position in Bellevue,WA.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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