Engineer Logistics Solutions 2

Position Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with business stakeholders to serve as a direct contact for logistics issues.
• Extract data and generate reports to assist in performance tracking and decision-making.
• Perform data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development, and scenario modeling.
• Calculate labor, equipment, facility, and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions.
• Create process flows, concepts of operations, and value propositions; collaborate with IT to create system concepts.
• Develop optimization scenarios and strategies aligned with objectives.
• Analyze logistics operations and build decision support systems.
• Conduct research to respond to customer requests.
• Develop, test, and deploy scripts, programs, and software to automate and improve business processes, reports, and decisions.
• Maintain data systems to house and share critical logistics data, ensuring accessibility for data consumers.
• Provide suggestions and ideas to improve business processes.
• Identify value-creation opportunities for the company.
• Aid in the development and implementation of solutions, including leveraging advanced technologies such as machine learning, warehouse automation, and sophisticated optimization algorithms.
• Complete project work internally within the department and externally with other departments to ensure on-time completion within budget.
• Meet project schedules as assigned.
• Maintain high-quality data governance.
• Perform additional projects/duties to support ongoing business needs.

Nature & Scope

• Applies practical knowledge of job areas obtained through advanced education and work experience.
• Encouraged to seek continuous improvements.
• Performs a range of mainly straightforward assignments.
• Works independently with general supervision.
• Problem faced are difficult but not typically complex.

Knowledge & Skills

• Experience or specialization within supply chain/operations research preferred but not required.
• Working knowledge of programming languages, applications, and database tools.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently on multiple tasks and projects with various teams.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated analytical, quantitative, and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Self-directed with solid collaboration and professional team-building skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); AutoCAD preferred.
• Strong work ethic, judgment, and decision-making skills.

Experience

• 3–5 years of relevant experience.
• Project management experience required.

Education/Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data science, or computer science required, or equivalent relevant work experience with formal training and certifications.
• Six Sigma certification preferred.

People Management

• No physical requirements/work environment.

Reports To

The position reports to the Director of Deployment Systems or Integrated Logistics.