Sr. Engineer, Solutions Design at Real Cold – Polk City, Florida

Why RealCold?

Established in 2022, RealCold was founded to address the unmet needs of the food cold chain sector. By combining high-growth strategic locations, state-of-the-art facilities, and exhaustive offerings that include traditional storage programs and diverse value-added services (including DTC, Direct To Consumer), the company has positioned itself as a collaborative and integrated provider for food retailers, producers, and distributors. This mission is reinforced through its highly bespoke solutioning and customer-centric approach. The RealCold platform operates a national, omni-channel network, inclusive of traditional storage offerings, as well as comprehensive direct-to-consumer programs, which can reach the majority of U.S. consumers within one- or two-day ground service.

The Role:

The Sr. Engineer, Solutions Design is responsible for applying analytical, modeling and problem-solving skills for the design and delivery of innovative, customer-centric cold storage and warehouse and truck/parcel transportation solutions. This role plays a critical part in translating client requirements into scalable operating models, facility layouts, transportation networks, and technology-enabled solutions. The Sr Engineer partners closely with Sales, Operations, and clients to analyze tenders, develop proposals, support implementations, and provide customer-specific support during ‘run’ operations that are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard of customer satisfaction.

This position requires a blend of technical depth, quantitative and Excel expertise, operational engineering expertise, project coordination, technical problem solving, and strong communication skills in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities:

• Perform data cleanup, validation, and analysis to support warehouse and cold chain solution development.

• Extract data from internal systems and external customer sources, and format the data for use in operational, financial, and engineering analyses.

• Develop optimization and simulation models to solve transportation and warehouse design problems, including capacity planning, labor modeling, process optimization, and cost tradeoffs.

• Build, develop, and maintain reusable analytical models that can be leveraged for future or expanded solution efforts.
• Apply foresight to anticipate future operating scenarios and ensure the credibility, accuracy, and scalability of modeling logic and assumptions.

• Support RFP and proposal responses by collecting, summarizing, and analyzing input data to support the customer value proposition.

• Assist in the preparation of internal and customer-facing presentations by producing process and layout visuals, charts, analyses, and supporting materials that clearly communicate key insights and recommendations.

• Collaborate with other engineers and cross functional teams to ensure analytical outputs align with overall solution intent and customer requirements.
• Ad hoc analytic work to support strategic initiatives in healthcare, full-service e-commerce product offering (fulfillment, parcel, technology, etc.), and other projects as needed.

Requirements of the Position:

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or equivalent education.
• Minimum three (3) years of engineering experience in a warehouse environment

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Expertise in Excel, Power BI, AutoCAD, Visio, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for customer-facing engagements.
• Experience with cold-chain or temperature-sensitive fulfillment environments.
• Familiarity with automation technologies and distributed order management systems.
• Advanced data analysis skills for performance optimization and anomaly detection.
• Preference for experience with transportation analyses – over the road full truck load and parcel
• Preference for experience with healthcare sector supply chains and regulatory requirements

Work Requirements:

• Must be able to pass a background check.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Strongly prefer full-time onsite working out of the RealCold facility, in Lakeland, FL (between Tampa and Orlando)
• Hours vary depending on deadlines and needs of the company
• Willing to travel about 25%

Work Environment:

Works in a cold storage company with occasional exposure to low to below-zero temperatures. This job may involve occasional exposure to some disagreeable elements such as dust, noise, etc. Accidents are improbable other than minor injuries. The environment may be fast paced at times. You may occasionally be working around moving machines, order pickers, and forklifts.

Physical Demands:

This is not an all-inclusive list, but it is intended to give an overview physical requirement for this position. Reasonable accommodation will be provided under appropriate circumstances and in accordance with applicable law. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Continually: Sit, stand and walk for extended periods of time
• Continually: Speak and hear
• Continually: Type, write, and read
• Continually: Carry, lift and push up to 15 lbs.
• Continually: Maintain attention for long periods of time with constant interruptions
• Occasionally: Perform project work (observations, measurements, conversations with operators, etc.), in an environment of as cold as -20 degrees. Protective clothing will be provided.
• Occasionally: Work in an environment of up to -20F for up to 2-3 hrs per day
• Occasionally: Reaching and pulling

What We Offer You:

• Comprehensive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, Short- and Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• 401(k) Match
• Paid Time Off

RealCold is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We believe in providing employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.