Manager, Operational Excellence & Industrial Engineering

Hi, we're Nuts.com!

Nuts.com is a self-funded, profitable, rapidly growing multi-channel DTC specialty food and wellness company with over 550 people on our team. We're changing the landscape of snacking on nuts, dried fruit, chocolate and more! We planted our roots in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression, selling premium nuts on Mulberry Street's open-air market. We've come quite a long way since then, taking our multi-generational family business online in 1999. Even after 97 years, we continue to pride ourselves in expertly sourcing the highest quality foods and treating our customers like family.

What's our team like? We're driven, collaborative and entrepreneurial. Energy and passion power our business and we look for candidates who share in that excitement to help us continue to build something special.

The role

The Manager of Operational Excellence & Industrial Engineering will be a hands-on, high-impact operator responsible for improving how work gets done across our operations network. This person will lead continuous improvement, industrial engineering, and network efficiency initiatives that improve productivity (labor margin), quality, and customer experience. They will also help us build the plant of the future by identifying where automation, robotics, data, and process technology can improve how our operations work today while shaping the long-term technology roadmap for scalable growth.

This role is ideal for someone who is analytical, practical, self-motivated, and comfortable moving between data, the production floor, and executive-level conversations. We are looking for someone who can identify problems, build the business case, align stakeholders, and then roll up their sleeves to execute.

The right candidate will not just report on performance; they will improve it. They will lead projects across process design, labor standards, packaging optimization, network design, Perfect Order Score improvement, root cause analysis, SMED, New Product Innovation support, and other ad hoc special operations projects. This person will partner closely with Operations, Data, Engineering, FSQA, and cross-functional leaders to drive measurable results across the business.

This role reports to the Director of Operations. 

How you'll make an impact

Nuts.com is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, immigration status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should reach out to us at people@nuts.com