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Location: Jacksonville, FL
Job ID: 34128BR
Department: Industrial Operations
Working Hours: minimum 45 hours per week
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Aug 13, 2025

$81 - 122k

Onsite

Full Time - Regular

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Description

Come join the Publix Industrial Engineering team as an IE supporting our Central Pharmacy operations. Publix is passionately focused on providing an exceptional shopping experience, and you’ll support that mission by ensuring our back-end facilities run efficiently and supply over 1,400 Publix pharmacies across the Southeast with the high-quality products our customers expect.

We are seeking a skilled industrial engineer to support the launch and ongoing activities of a new high-volume Central Fill site in St. Johns, scheduled to open in April 2026. Located just 26 miles south of Jacksonville, this state-of-the-art, highly automated facility will complement an existing Orlando central fill location. Publix is the #1 supermarket for customer satisfaction, and these pharmacy sites play a key role in that accomplishment by efficiently fulfilling prescriptions via automation and distributing them to our stores for customer pickup. This incremental position offers a unique opportunity to be involved with the new operation from the earliest stages, working closely with leadership to establish a safe, efficient, and high-quality production environment. Your expertise will be instrumental in shaping the processes and strategies that set the foundation for long-term success.

You will initially be based in Orlando to gain hands-on experience with that site’s pharmacy operations and to learn from our experienced Pharmacy IE team. Publix Pharmacy facilities in Orlando include a large distribution center, a highly automated Central Fill operation that dispenses and supplies customer prescriptions to our stores, and Central Processing operations where pharmacists remotely verify customer prescriptions to assist our store pharmacists. We also have a Specialty Pharmacy operation servicing high cost medication for patients with complex disease states, and a Compounding Pharmacy operation where medicines are custom-made to suit the needs of individual patients.

Beginning in February 2026, Publix will relocate you from Orlando to St. Johns, where you will assist with the commissioning, opening, and ongoing success of the new facility. In addition to your primary responsibilities in St. Johns, you will continue to collaborate remotely with your IE peers in Orlando and occasionally travel there for on-site projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Develops and maintains engineered labor standards that are used to schedule, pay, and/or evaluate the performance of Publix associates and suppliers
• Provides analytical decision support to assigned business areas through the use of core industrial engineering skills, mathematical tools, modeling and computational methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization
• Provides business guidance and industrial engineering expertise to VP, Sr. Director, Director, Sr. Manager, and Department Managers
• Identifies process improvements for supported business areas and
• Directs, plans and coordinates the day to day activities of up to one IE Support Specialist & up to one Student IE.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience
• At least one (1) year as an industrial engineer (including internships) or at least two (2) years providing analytical or technical support with a demonstrated ability to perform exceptional process improvement work
• Knowledge of statistics
• Knowledge of ergonomics
• Knowledge of process flow analysis methods
• Knowledge of linear systems and operations research and resource allocation methods
• Knowledge of facilities design methods
• Knowledge of science and scientific method
• Interpersonal and presentation skills
• Knowledge of forecasting, replenishment, inventory management, production scheduling, and line balancing principles
• Strong technical knowledge
• Knowledge of writing techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
• Project management and process improvement skills
• Ability to work independently, be a self-starter and multi-task
• Troubleshooting skills
• Economic analysis and research skills
• Ability to analyze and design processes
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information and matters
• Ability to act in a professional manner
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Ability to quickly learn new, complex ideas or concepts
• Ability to visualize a situation
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong decision making skills
• Ability to train users
• Ability to quickly assess new technologies and data sources
• Strong negotiation skills
• High degree of self-motivation, commitment and integrity
• Willingness to work a variable schedule including nights, holidays and weekends to meet the Pharmacy business needs
• Willingness to occasionally travel via commercial airline or company plane with overnight stays

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Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, MBA or related discipline
• Three (3) or more years as an industrial engineer or closely related profession and two (2) or more years of Publix experience at the warehouse, corporate or manufacturing support level with project leadership experience
• Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt or higher
• Certification by the Association for Operations Management (APICS), or Institute of Supply Management or American Society for Transportation and Logistics
• Knowledge of the Publix Pharmacy and Distribution strategy and supply chain to support the execution of the strategy at the Central Pharmacy level, prescription filling level, and warehouse storage level
• Knowledge of the master data that drives the forecasting, planning, production scheduling, shipping functionality, inventory management, warehousing, purchasing and costing of pharmaceuticals
• Knowledge of Publix Pharmacy’s operational processes
• Knowledge of Distribution’s storage and inventory guidelines
• Knowledge of Publix department structure
• Knowledge of Publix’s accounting principles and tools
• Knowledge of the Publix Quality Decision Process (QDP) steps and contacts
• Knowledge of Rx fulfillment processing equipment, automation systems, and electronic controls used in Central Fill

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Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
• Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits – Jobs (publix.com)

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Year End Bonus

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

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Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.

Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

For this position, Publix does not and will not file a petition or application with the USCIS or Department of State on behalf of any noncitizen for any immigration-related benefit to work and/or to continue to work in the United States, e.g., an H-1B or TN petition or permanent residence.

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