# Director, Operational Design & Engineering

Some of what you will do: Reporting to the Senior Director, Supply Chain Strategy, Engineering & Sourcing, the Director, Operations Design & Engineering is accountable for how Staples Canada’s distribution and fulfillment facilities are designed, automated, staffed and improved. The role leads the development of facility concepts, layouts, material flow, storage and slotting designs, automation solutions, labour models, capacity plans and operating models that improve service, productivity, scalability and cost. Staples Canada is modernizing its distribution facilities through automated storage, robotics and modern warehouse systems. The Director serves as the business and technical lead for the engineering work behind this modernization, acting as Staples Canada’s counterpart to integrators and equipment providers and bringing defensible designs and business cases to senior leadership. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. Network strategy sits with the broader Supply Chain Strategy team; this role owns the facility and operations designs that make the network plan work. Specifically, You Will: Facility and Operations Design Lead the design of distribution centres, fulfi

- **Id**: 4078303
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/staples-director-operational-design-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Richmond Hill, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T15:37:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T16:13:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6147
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: B2B Commerce, Office Supplies & Stationery

## Company

- **Id**: 1754708
- **Name**: Staples
- **Domain**: staples.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/staples-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 44
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.909
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 23
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **AutoCAD** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Management years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T16:13:49Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T20:51:12Z

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