Process Optimisation Engineer (Non Food Fulfilment)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Field Based, Coventry, CV1 1FL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 10 February 2026
Requisition ID: 400047267
Why join us
By joining our Industrial Engineering team at Sainsbury's, you will become an integral part of driving improvement and productivity across our Supply Chain & Logistics operations. With a focus on continuously enhancing processes, warehouse layouts, and labour productivity, you will have the opportunity to make a tangible impact that aligns with our business goals and objectives. As an Industrial Engineer, you will have the chance to contribute to the development of productivity improvements, collaborate with key stakeholders, and apply your expertise to optimise operational processes. We offer access to professional qualifications, a supportive work environment that values work-life balance, and the opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that is dedicated to innovative solutions and driving success in our organisation.
What you'll do
Your role will be focused on driving productivity improvements across our operations. You will play a crucial part in deconstructing processes to identify areas of opportunity for improvement. Through time and motion study, you will set standards and measure compliance, while also recommending optimised warehouse layouts and relays to enhance productivity. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve measuring and monitoring standards within operational processes, prioritising productivity enhancements. Additionally, you will collaborate with Operational Executions Leads to provide expert insights and knowledge to improve processes within the cluster. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of business strategies with a productivity lens and stay updated on industry methodologies and learnings. With your technical qualifications as an Industrial Engineer, along with IMS certification and potentially Lean Six Sigma/Kaizen qualifications, you will bring a detailed understanding of operational processes and the ability to successfully deconstruct them, recommend practical improvements, and conduct work measurement and method studies. Your strong influencing and communication skills will be essential in collaborating with stakeholders at all levels. Maintaining strong relationships, working well within a multidisciplinary team, and adapting to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment will be critical to your success in this role.
Who you are
You are a highly skilled professional with a detailed understanding of operational processes in both logistics and supply chain domains. With your technical qualifications as including IMS certification and potentially Lean Six Sigma/Kaizen qualifications, you possess the expertise to drive productivity improvements and optimise standard processes. Your ability to conduct work measurement and method studies, deconstruct processes, and recommend practical improvements demonstrates your analytical mindset and problem-solving capabilities. Excellent influencing and communication skills enable you to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, including managing relationships with unions. Your strong numerical and logical thinking abilities, coupled with your proficiency in data modelling and analytics, allow you to develop and maintain productivity models. With a flexible and adaptable approach, you thrive in project and programme environments within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering results within tight timeframes. Your commitment to work-life balance aligns with our values, as we trust our colleagues to have the flexibility to determine how, where, and when they work while achieving our business goals.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).
